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Post by dogless on Mar 13, 2024 19:25:15 GMT
I guess they don't need to tell you where All Oaks Visitor Moorings is though, eh Rog? Of course not ... a short walk away from a fabulous deli , a post office and several great pubs in Brinklow. The pubs are also great places for spotting vintage and veteran cars in the summer. Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 13, 2024 19:37:20 GMT
Anything else?
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Post by dogless on Mar 13, 2024 19:48:57 GMT
Erm ... can't think of anything.
Apart from I'm not sure exactly where Brinklow cutting is.
Is it the cutting just beyond Easenhall Lane bridge ... Easenhall cutting, where the blockage is currently ?
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 13, 2024 19:53:22 GMT
Is it the cutting just beyond Easenhall Lane bridge ... Easenhall cutting, where the blockage is currently ? Bloody hell, is it still there? A proper canal boating expert would have had that 4,000 tons of trees and earth cleared by lunchtime.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 13, 2024 20:01:29 GMT
Anyway, perhaps Tony Dunkley might wish to sent CRT a polite and friendly email pointing out that there is a typo in their latest update?
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Post by on Mar 13, 2024 20:12:09 GMT
One suspects the web master has arranged it so that none of his communications are received.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 13, 2024 21:44:28 GMT
One suspects the web master has arranged it so that none of his communications are received. Tony Dunkley does have some means of contacting them, CRT phoned me one day last year to advise that he had reported me for having invalid insurance. This was quickly resolved by me sending them a copy of my insurance certificate. They made it very obvious during the two phone calls I had with them that they regard Tony Dunkley as nothing more than an object of derision and ridicule.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Mar 13, 2024 22:57:32 GMT
One suspects the web master has arranged it so that none of his communications are received. Tony Dunkley does have some means of contacting them, CRT phoned me one day last year to advise that he had reported me for having invalid insurance. This was quickly resolved by me sending them a copy of my insurance certificate. That little matter isn't finished with yet, . . Shit-for-Brains. You managed to flannel that thick idiot at C&RT - Glynn Bumhole - or some such similar name, with your worthless insurance certificate . . but no insurable interest = no cover, . . so the inescapable truth is that you don't have valid cover, . . and that's down to your half-arsed hole-and-corner arrangement with the real owner of the boat that you pretend is yours.
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Post by kris on Mar 13, 2024 23:17:46 GMT
Tony you have got numerous unanswered questions all over the forum. Whilst you spout you repepetive vile ravings, calling everyone on the forum or falling out with most people you come into contact with. Can I suggest if you insist on sticking around, then at least out of common decency and respect to other forum members can you start your own thread and restrict your dribblings to that one thread. You can call it what you like,( my suggestion would be The Playpen.) but call it what you like. You can continue broadcasting your anti crt propaganda, (not all I would disagree with.)The other people interested in your point of view about your case and your invisible friends, can read the thread with no nasty ness or name calling. Whilst the rest of us just get on? What do you say? Do you think we can live in peace and harmony?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 14, 2024 5:13:11 GMT
Tony Dunkley does have some means of contacting them, CRT phoned me one day last year to advise that he had reported me for having invalid insurance. This was quickly resolved by me sending them a copy of my insurance certificate. That little matter isn't finished with yet, . . Shit-for-Brains. . Oh look, yet another unprovoked personal attack from convicted thief and paedophile Tony Dunkley.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Mar 20, 2024 18:40:45 GMT
In the Post Office prosecutions scandal, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the Post Office's corrupt management, and its bent lawyers, lied to and misled the Courts.
I wonder what it is that leaves Alice, and the mindless arsewipes that make up his tiny circle of mutually adoring friends, so stubbornly convinced that C&RT's corrupt management, and its bent lawyers wouldn't be capable of doing, or haven't done, exactly the same to the hundreds of boat owners who've then been unlawfully evicted from their boats, and their boats unlawfully seized and taken away from them ?
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Post by on Mar 20, 2024 18:41:20 GMT
dentist
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 20, 2024 18:45:07 GMT
I wonder what it is that leaves Alice, and the mindless arsewipes that make up his tiny circle of mutually adoring friends, so stubbornly convinced that C&RT's corrupt management, (rest of the bullshit snipped) I'd suggest that Alice's tiny circle of mutually adoring friends is still considerably larger than your tiny circle of mutually adoring friends, which seems to consist solely of GHL.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Mar 23, 2024 16:46:25 GMT
Brinklow Slip
- or - How to turn a comparatively minor occurrence into a major long-term stoppage
Landslips of similar proportions to the current one in the Brinklow Cutting have been commonplace, in my personal experience and to my knowledge, for at least the last 60 years. Less so the further back in time you go, . . mainly because the trees were smaller back then, and so applied less rotating/slipping force to the areas of the cutting sides around the roots.
C&RT, and their equally clueless contractors, are setting about this landslip with their customary long drawn out song and dance methods, and making some very serious mistakes over getting the canal open to boat traffic again following this relatively minor, and if you know how, comparatively easy to deal with landslip.
In the days when the North Oxford still saw regular commercial traffic, . . and was maintained and run by British Waterways, an organisation with many of its own shortcomings, but a bit more akin to a real navigation authority than the clowns in charge these days, . . a slip such as the present one in Brinklow Cutting would generally delay traffic for no more than around half a day at most.
There's a right way and a wrong way to deal with slips like this present one in the Brinklow Cutting. A lot of useful lessons in doing it the right way were learned from mistakes made with the Saddington Slip many years ago, . . which, going from what I recall being told, from the early 1960's through to the early 1970's, by other working and ex-boatmen, BWB lengthsmen, other British Waterways company men, the two BWB Section/Length Foremen, and BWB's Leicester Section Inspector, Matt Mortimer, . . first began causing really serious recurring problems in the late 1930's or early 1940's.
Removing too much slip material/spoil from the navigation channel at the site of a landslip too soon after the slip, combined with also removing the main trunks and root systems from where they all finish up immediately after a slip, is a really big mistake, . . and is almost certain to lead to further slippage and movement.
The weight/mass of the main parts of the fallen trees must, initially, be moved out of the way and is repositioned only as much as is absolutely necessary, ie. only what is needed in order to open up a temporary minimal width and depth navigation channel past the slip site.
Leaving as much as possible of the slip material/spoil, . . plus most of the weight/bulk of the fallen trees, all in situ at first, has the beneficial effect of allowing the slip to naturally stabilize itself to the greatest possible extent, . . whilst navigation resumes via a short length of minimal depth/width channel through the slip site.
This way of dealing with slips such as this leaves the whole site/area still in a mess that all needs clearing up afterwards, . . but it works, it's practical, it's proven and above all, it's safe, both for those working on site, and the boats and the people aboard passing through after re-opening, . . and it gets the navigation open again in a matter of hours. The cutting up and removal of the trees already done in Brinklow Cutting is absolutely the wrong way to go about this. All that has been achieved by what's been done so far, and what is proposed next, is to turn the possibility of further slippage at the same spot into what amounts to almost an absolute certainty.
What should, and what WOULD, be happening under a responsible and competent navigation authority, is that the navigation is re-opened by the means described above, with appropriate signage clearly warning of the serious ground instability throughout the whole length of the cutting, . . and the consequential very high risk of further similar slips occurring, at ANY time and without ANY warning.
An urgent program of work to reduce or eliminate the massive destabilizing forces from the trees on the sides of the cutting by means of extensive lopping, or removal of all the largest/heaviest overhanging trees along the whole length of the cutting, MUST then commence as a matter of urgency, and without any delay whatsoever.
Pleasure boaters who use, have used, or intend to use the North Oxford in the future should NOT be under any illusions. Years of joint BWB/C&RT neglect of essential tree maintenance, lopping, and growth/size control, has left Brinklow Cutting in a very dangerous state, . . along its entire length. With the high number of neglected and now very much oversized, much too weighty, overhanging trees, along the length of the cutting on both sides of the canal, and the permanently wet unstable ground they're all standing and growing in, . . it is potentially a very dangerous place to be, whether walking through or boating through, . . irrespective of how much recent rainfall there may or may not have been.
If nothing is done about all the oversized, overhanging trees that haven't yet fallen across the cutting, but could do without warning at any time, they're just going to keep coming down, . . and bringing more sizeable, potentially very dangerous, landslips full of yet more honking great overgrown trees down with them, . . with ever increasing regularity !
The navigation should have been re-opened to boat traffic in the way described above, . . moving and clearing the absolute minimum of slip material and tree debris from only the navigation channel itself. Everything on the towpath should have been left temporarily undisturbed, . . left to settle and stabilise itself, to whatever extent it can, under the influence of gravity, and its own bulk/mass and natural tendency to inertia.
Top priority MUST then be given over IMMEDIATELY to - as referred to above - lopping and/or felling, as necessary, all of those very much oversized, much too weighty, overhanging trees, along the length of the cutting on both sides of the canal. They are all standing and growing in permanently wet unstable ground, and any or all of them could start moving at any time, without warning, triggering more landslips when they do.
Put simply, . . C&RT are getting this very wrong. Top priority, after re-opening the canal, with the absolute minimal width and depth of navigation channel passing through the slip site, should, and MUST, be the prevention of further landslips, . . NOT the cosmetic clearing and tidying up of this one, . . or re-opening the towpath, . . or dredging the canal in the cutting and the navigation channel back to its full width and depth.
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Post by metanoia on Mar 23, 2024 19:12:50 GMT
The ladies who run the post office in Brinklow are very pleasant, aren't they Mr Stabby?
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