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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2022 7:40:06 GMT
Boggs lock on the Staffs & Worc ... slightly concerning in that the towpath side has clearly been cut but the offside deliberately untouched ... looks like Brick-kiln lock is the same. Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2022 8:28:25 GMT
Boggs lock on the Staffs & Worc ... slightly concerning in that the towpath side has clearly been cut but the offside deliberately untouched ... looks like Brick-kiln lock is the same. Rog H&S prevent them from crossing the lock gate to do the offside 😱
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 3, 2022 8:29:55 GMT
Maybe there is an access difficulty to get the mowing machine onto the other side of the lock? Anyway, in the great scheme of CRT’s maintenance failures, I think it is fairly low priority.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2022 9:57:25 GMT
It will be contractors not C&RT.
I understand a new contractor has been employed so this could be an oversight or simple ignorance ... either way around locks it's not great, especially when raining and wet.
I shall await a response.
Rog
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Post by Jim on Jul 3, 2022 11:51:24 GMT
Boggs lock on the Staffs & Worc ... slightly concerning in that the towpath side has clearly been cut but the offside deliberately untouched ... looks like Brick-kiln lock is the same. Rog What's the problem ? If you don't want to walk through the long grass, then don't ! Stick to the towpath side of the lock, . . there's no need to walk along the other side of the chamber at all. The Egress ladder is on that side. Egresses get lost in long grass, as ani fule kno.
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Post by twerp2 (Asleep) on Jul 3, 2022 12:00:55 GMT
Maybe they will come back in three weeks time to finish the job...
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Jul 3, 2022 13:18:40 GMT
Boggs lock on the Staffs & Worc ... slightly concerning in that the towpath side has clearly been cut but the offside deliberately untouched ... looks like Brick-kiln lock is the same. Rog What's the problem ? If you don't want to walk through the long grass, then don't ! Stick to the towpath side of the lock, . . there's no need to walk along the other side of the chamber at all.
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Post by Jim on Jul 3, 2022 13:52:14 GMT
The Egress ladder is on that side. Egresses get lost in long grass, as ani fule kno. Egrets have long legs for exactly that reason. So that they don't get lost in the long grass. Egrets have few regrets. Ah, a common source of confusion, The Egret. That would be the Daddy Bird, they have long legs to mount the Mummy Bird, the Egress. They have short legs. Hence struggling in long grass.
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Post by Jim on Jul 3, 2022 13:55:54 GMT
Boggs lock on the Staffs & Worc ... slightly concerning in that the towpath side has clearly been cut but the offside deliberately untouched ... looks like Brick-kiln lock is the same. Rog What's the problem ? If you don't want to walk through the long grass, then don't ! Stick to the towpath side of the lock, . . there's no need to walk along the other side of the chamber at all. How else do you get to or from the ladder? If you had a boat and were single handing? And wanted to use that particular ladder. It is possible there is another on the towpath side that we can't see.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Jul 3, 2022 14:59:11 GMT
What's the problem ? If you don't want to walk through the long grass, then don't ! Stick to the towpath side of the lock, . . there's no need to walk along the other side of the chamber at all. How else do you get to or from the ladder? You don't, . . not if you working the lock - single or double, uphill or downhill - in the correct way. You're putting a boat through a lock, . . you're not taking part in a ladder climbing exercise
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Post by Jim on Jul 3, 2022 15:10:52 GMT
How else do you get to or from the ladder? You don't, . . not if you working the lock - single or double, uphill or downhill - in the correct way. You're putting a boat through a lock, . . you're not taking part in a ladder climbing exercise Go on then, What's the correct way? Single handed? That works for all locks? If one doesn't want to waste fuel, create unnecessary pollution and so turn the motor off in the lock? I enjoy climbing ladders btw.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 3, 2022 15:10:58 GMT
Boggs lock on the Staffs & Worc ... slightly concerning in that the towpath side has clearly been cut but the offside deliberately untouched ... looks like Brick-kiln lock is the same. Rog What's the problem ? If you don't want to walk through the long grass, then don't ! Stick to the towpath side of the lock, . . there's no need to walk along the other side of the chamber at all. If you are single handing and travelling uphill then unless you are sufficiently confident and/or agile to jump from one bottom gate after you have closed it to the still open gate, then you have no choice but to cross the top gate and walk through the grass on the offside. Don't you know anything?
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Post by Jim on Jul 3, 2022 15:20:09 GMT
What's the problem ? If you don't want to walk through the long grass, then don't ! Stick to the towpath side of the lock, . . there's no need to walk along the other side of the chamber at all. If you are single handing and travelling uphill then unless you are sufficiently confident and/or agile to jump from one bottom gate after you have closed it to the still open gate, then you have no choice but to cross the top gate and walk through the grass on the offside. Don't you know anything? Tony says there's no need to use the ladder. It's not just uphill, how do you get on your boat going downhill, jump? Nah, it was a 10 ft drop to the roof at Lemonroyd a couple of weeks ago. But let's be fair, give the expert a chance to tell us the method that works on all locks, single handed, without using a ladder. I'm genuinely interested to know.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Jul 3, 2022 16:10:44 GMT
If you are single handing and travelling uphill then unless you are sufficiently confident and/or agile to jump from one bottom gate after you have closed it to the still open gate, then you have no choice but to cross the top gate and walk through the grass on the offside. Don't you know anything? Tony says there's no need to use the ladder. It's not just uphill, how do you get on your boat going downhill, jump? Nah, it was a 10 ft drop to the roof at Lemonroyd a couple of weeks ago. But let's be fair, give the expert a chance to tell us the method that works on all locks, single handed, without using a ladder. I'm genuinely interested to know. This will probably come as something of shock to you, and the rest of the stupid sods who devote so much time and effort to encumbering this forum with as many examples of their collective ignorance as they can, . . . but different types and sizes of locks have to be worked by different methods. Single locks - like the one in Alice's photo - can be, and were, with the exception of top and bottom paddles, operated entirely from one side and without any need to get on or off whilst the boat's in the lock chamber. With the requisite knowledge, and items of equipment, all the walking from one end of the lock to the other can be confined to one side of the lock only - usually, with a very few exceptions such as down Aylesbury Arm, the towpath (inside) side. You'll also, no doubt, be unaware that until quite recently canal locks, single or double, were not and never were equipped with any ladders at all. Ladders in canal lock chambers were introduced partially as a safety measure - so that anyone falling into a lock chamber would be able to climb out up them - and partially for the convenience and use of noddy-boating prats who haven't a clue about how to work locks properly.
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Post by Jim on Jul 3, 2022 16:46:02 GMT
Tony says there's no need to use the ladder. It's not just uphill, how do you get on your boat going downhill, jump? Nah, it was a 10 ft drop to the roof at Lemonroyd a couple of weeks ago. But let's be fair, give the expert a chance to tell us the method that works on all locks, single handed, without using a ladder. I'm genuinely interested to know. This will probably come as something of shock to you, and the rest of the stupid sods who devote so much time and effort to encumbering this forum with as many examples of their collective ignorance as they can, . . . but different types and sizes of locks have to be worked by different methods. Single locks - like the one in Alice's photo - can be, and were, with the exception of top and bottom paddles, operated entirely from one side and without any need to get on or off whilst the boat's in the lock chamber. With the requisite knowledge, and items of equipment, all the walking from one end of the lock to the other can be confined to one side of the lock only - usually, with a very few exceptions such as down Aylesbury Arm, the towpath (inside) side. You'll also, no doubt, be unaware that until quite recently canal locks, single or double, were not and never were equipped with any ladders at all. Ladders in canal lock chambers were introduced partially as a safety measure - so that anyone falling into a lock chamber would be able to climb out up them - and partially for the convenience and use of noddy-boating prats who haven't a clue about how to work locks properly. How? Perhaps a bullet list for brevity and clarity. Otherwise we will think you don't actually know. I know locks used to be worked without ladders, have heard tales of climbing the gates etc. So what is the method for doing all locks single handed without using ladders.
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