Narrowboat Life - 2018 - No.23 - What Lies Beneath? - Shropshire Union Canal
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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Our narrowboat was still moored up on the Shropshire Union Canal. The reason will become very clear in this vlog, approved by the management team at the Canal and River Trust. 😎😎
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How good does the workmanship look in the lock when empty, pure class in my case , love the vlog thanks 👍👍👍
Hi Kal
Hence the title to our vlog. It is only when you see the workmanship you appreciate that this was done nearly 200 years ago. We marvel at what is highly skilled work done with very little tools, just hard labour.
As always thanks for watching. B & K 👍😎🌞
Very Interesting to see CRT at work - you were lucky to get the opportunity to get images of it in process - Safe travels!
Hi Derek
We have a very good relationship with CRT, we know they have issues but we appreciate decent workmanship. A bit of clever camerawork 😆 allowed us to obtain some unique footage.
Thanks for watching. 👍😎🌞 B & K
seems the same all over the world,,, 3 guys working and 5 standing around watching.. here in Canada the guys watching are usually leaning on shovels !
Hi Harry
Hahaha, in the UK shovel leaners are also very common. Good to know it is the same the world over.
Thanks for watching. 👍😎🌞
To be fair, the shovel leaners are often watching for dangers... they just lean because they can. I know it's a cliché now about health and safety, but observers are very important in almost all civil engineering projects.
most of them would actually rather be doing some actual work... but protecting your work colleagues is 'work'
Hi
You are spot on. Lone working was once very common no matter how dangerous the job. These days a lot more thought goes into things. Cheers. Keith. 👍🍻
Reminds me of my first job. One colleague couldn't understand the laughter when he said that he had watched a road worker leaning on his shovel all morning. He (my colleague) then went off to the pub for his customary Guinness lunch, which he slept off in the afternoon.
Hi Barry
Similar things happened when I (K) first started work. Still happens today but much less alcohol is consumed (if any).
Stay safe and well. B & K 👍💑
It was interesting to see a repair in progress. Thank you.
Hello Ian
We have seen cill buffers before but never that big. The CRT team just got on with it and did a great job.
Thankfully the stoppage was in a lovely area so waiting around was not much of a problem.
Thanks for watching B & K 👍🌞😎
Hello from New Zealand, I have really enjoyed these last two episodes of your adventures as we cruised through here late September last year on a holiday around the 4 Counties Ring. We came across a stoppage at Middlewich middle lock where they were repairing a paddle and had drained the pound. I was able to get up close and watch and was really impressed by the skill and ingenuity of the CRT guys working on it. Armed with only a battery powered drill, a couple of spanners and a big hammer they got the job done in no time.
Hi Marc
Only the last two episodes. 😆😆
Many people constantly criticise CRT but it is not always warranted. The CRT teams out in the field work under very trying conditions and invariably they sort things out with the minimum disruption.
Thanks for watching. B & K 👍😎🌞
For those that don't get out in their canal boats much, the cill (sill) is what the bottom of the gates touches when closed. Similar to a window or door sill.
That's right Doug & many boaters haven't seen one. Thanks for watching 😎😎
great video,,,and a man after my own heart,,,he managed to find a darlin walking the path along side and picked her up!! not every guy can do that!! Neat boat, great views, good explanation,,,,regards
😃😃 Thanks Bill, yes, B sure is my darling & the best person to be boating with. It was a very interesting stoppage & great to be allowed to film it. Thank you for watching. 👍👍
Hello again, enjoyed the banter, great to see the workings on the lock, well done to the repair crew. Enjoyed the video.
Hi Brendan
Communication is so important on the waterways, it does increase the enjoyment. The CRT team did a great job with minimum disruption.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. 👍🌞😎
Great vlog guys. Very interesting to see the repair. Well filmed felt like we where there. Thanks
Hi Annie
Thank you for liking our vlog.
Once the water is drained it is quite surprising what you see and find. We could not get too close but we adapted some of our video gear and it allowed us to get some decent footage.
They did a very good job with the minimum of fuss.
Cheers B & K 👍🌞😎🍷🍸
You're not Cruising the Cut.. but still enjoyable
That's exactly right NN 😀😎😀 You are with The Tiller People here 😀😎😀 We're sure you'll enjoy watching our boating videos. B & K ruclips.net/p/PLRGHlee_H7DaSOnCn8SLkIHqOgURRkw1Y
Very interesting vlog - thank you. CRT did a great job fixing it so promptly- not an easy thing. As a complete novice to narrow boating I find the locks fascinating and how what appears to be simple physics is put into practice to enable everyone to travel around the network . Hope you enjoy your time in Market Drayton- I’m sure you will visit The Red Lion whilst you are there. We are currently relaxing at Tixall Wide before handing our boat back at Great Haywood tomorrow 😢 - it has been a lovely fortnight - still hopefully we will be back next year and we will still be avidly watching your vlogs. Best wishes to you both and thanks again for your tips x
Hi Lucinda
It is not often you get the chance to see the CRT field force in action so we are quite pleased to have managed to get some unique footage.
For many years we hired so we know what you are feeling like towards the end of your holiday.
Weather wise you have had perfection which really helps.
Tixall Wide is a lovely spot to finish off. 🍷🍺
We have been nearly everywhere but in our opinion nothing comes close to the Shroppy, Llangollen, Trent & Mersey, Macclesfield, Bridgewater and further down south the lock free Ashby Canal.
The Red Lion will certainly have another few visits this year, purely for research purposes. 😉
Cheers B & K
I'm always interested in the "mechanics" of the locks, so really enjoyed this vlog. This is the first time I've seen any sort of protection for the cill, but must admit it makes sense. Some vessel must have really hit it hard to displace it from the mounting.
Hello again
This was an unusual set up and very very big and heavy. Normally it is much smaller and attached with chains. How on earth a boat could displace something so large is beyond my understanding.
Cheers B & K 👍😎🌞🍺
I've seen pictures of some narrowboats where the base plate sticks out beyond the bow piece (why, I don't know). I'm speculating that a boat might have unintentionally speared the timbers and lifted the guard out of the channels as the lock filled. Just a guess, anyway.
We agree with your are thinking. It is the only logical explanation. Mind you how the boat did not sink is beyond us. B & K
That was very interesting seeing the repairs done to the cill , someone must have really hit that cill hard to displace it like that . The workmen did a quick repair considering, even if it took about 2 days , job well done . The haunted cut a good story too . I also liked the banter between the other boats , very friendly narrowboaters are . Looking forward to more of your latest adventure :-)
Hi Stephen
Everyone who saw the displaced cill cannot understand why the boat that did the damage did not sink.
CRT are always being criticised which is valid on some occasions but out in the field the teams do a grand job.
Banter is so important on the canals and is part of the enjoyment, long may it continue.
A bit of a change next time involving a lot of different camerawork. One of our chill out vlogs.
As always thanks for watching. B & K 👍🌞😎
You mentioned the beer on it's way but never got to see the brew. Would have been a great shot at the end of your video with a bit of a toast to CRT with your pint/half in hand. Perhaps for a future video. I particularly liked the area around your "haunted" location. Was a pretty area with plenty of empty mooring it looked like. I too would have stopped for a BBQ and a few liquid induced singalongs. Great Video once again... even with the commercial bits to fellow boaters about your channel! LOL
Hi Tony
We did thank all the CRT team for all their efforts. We even offered to make them a brew several times but they declined. We have never seen anyone else moor at Betton Wood, perhaps the haunted reputation is spreading.😨😱
Our channel is only ever spread around by word of mouth so we are doing our bit to promote it. 😊😃
As always thanks for watching and commenting. B & K 👍😎🌞
Was sat relaxing in the shade in the main Audlam pound a couple of days ago and a boat rammed the gates just the other side of the bridge, 3 times before finally pushing the gates open!. And they had a crew!
How sad it is for someone to willfully and purposefully want to damage property. Running into a gate can be counted as a mistake... and mistakes happen.... but 3 times just to push it open is not. Crew or not, this should not have been done. Hopefully they were in a hire boat and decide NOT to hire again in the future.
Hi Adam
It is so annoying and it happens on a regular basis. So many boaters put the boat in forward gear against the lock gate when they fill the locks. Time and time again damage is caused using this method of locking. As for ramming the gates arrrgghhh no wonder stoppages are increasing.
Cheers B & K 👍😎🌞🍺
Totally agree with everything Tony. The thing which is concerning is it is normally a certain type of private boater and only occasionally an hire boater.
I've seen this done on a video of traditional working boat locking techniques, not ramming per se but pushing open. Is the difference between that, which presumably doesn't cause damage, and what you're describing simply the skill involved?
Hi Paul
It is an old traditional working boat technique which still causes similar issues. Newer boats are designed differently under the water but cause the most problems.
No need to leave your engine in gear and pressing against the cill in the modern era.
We would say adapt to new and better cruising ways rather than staying in the past.
Very interesting ,thank you k😁👍👏👏👏
Yes it was David, we learned a lot that day 👍👍
Interesting to see things from the CRT's point of view... very professional handling of the situation. The H&S thing was likely just to make it go quicker... (someone filming them and not paying attention would slow them)...
We found it very interesting too. We had permission to film, from the CRT manager on site. Glad you liked it. 👍👍
Okay, paused at 7:46 - and something I suspected at 3:50 turns out to be correct. After you mentioned that a boat had displaced the cill buffer a shape similarity caught my eye: the ends of the wooden planks forming the buffer where it lay there on what I'm going to call the step of the cill, have at their ends curve which looks a lot like the curve in that vertical angle iron at side of lock at that step. Hmm, I wondered, would that plank and plate buffer assembly drop in to that metal channel? Then we get to 7:46 and Aha! It does!
It is interesting to watch narrowboating videos from the point of view of a Yank who has no personal experience with the things (and due to health and income likely never will) and whose only canal related experience was hiking along towpath trails of a couple US canals as a child in 1960s and 1970s.
Now, now back to watching to find out the rest of the story! :)
Hello
When talking to the CRT team on site they like ourselves could not believe that the narrowboat that lifted the cill buffer did not sink. We love making our videos and find it really nice that people from all over the world view our vlogs and find them interesting.
Health is so important, we wish you all the best. Thanks for watching. 👍😊☺🍵
I bet the poor beggar that lifted the cill buffer up...(how in the name of all that is holy??).......is haunted now by his experience. I know I would be, let alone the guilt I'd feel having to have CRT to come out and fix it. I know accidents happen, but, good grief, how did not sink? One lucky boater!! Lovely vid as always you two, many thanks.
Hi Steve
You are thinking down the same lines as us. When you look at the size of the buffer it is amazing how that boat stayed afloat.
Sometimes things defy logic and this event certainly did.
A nice gentle sit back and chill out vlog next.
As always thanks for watching. B & K 👍😎🌞
Steve If the base plate did lift the cill stop I imagine that it would have stretched the weld and possibly caused a leak it should be checked out .Cheers
Reminds me of the question; how many professors does it take to change a light bulb? Don't know, they're still deciding.
Hi David
You are so right. Health and Safety is important but CRT seem to have turned things into an art form. Cheers. B & K 👍👫❤️
Hi Keith & B, Very surprised you got that close to the boys working Keith, they normal close the lot down. Not sure if one of the guys wasn't an old mate from years ago He work round the Stourport Basin for years and I lost touch with him as you do mate. Any way as usual a very good video stay safe and have a beer for me mate.
Hi Brian
One of the managers did a little sequence for us looking directly down but the rest was done with a bit of ingenuity which will remain a secret with the Tiller People. 😆😆😆😉
Everything was closed off safely and securely but with our technical equipment we found a way to film.
Glad you liked this rather unique video.
Cheers B & K 👍😎🌞🍺
I bet that "secret ingenuity" was Bernadette swinging Keith by the ankles over the fence. LOL
😂😂😂😂😂 Oh Tony you make us laugh ... I did cling on tightly without even bruising his ankles ... our secret is out B ❤
Strong but Gentle... Just like my wife...
Hahaha you know B so well. Mind you my toes were black and blue. 😆😉
Interesting video, thank you. I suppose the cill buffer would weigh a lot less in water. Perhaps somehow the bow or stern of a boat caught on the wood of the buffer and the boat lifted the buffer out of it's slots as the lock filled. Another theory for the pot!
Hi John
The cill buffer was obviously waterlogged and could not be moved without a suitable pulley system in place. The boat had to lift the buffer over 5ft before it came out of the slots.
Leaving your narrowboat hard in gear against a lock will eventually cause a problem. It is still baffling why the boat did not sink. Stay safe and well. B & K 👍💑😷
@@TheTillerPeopleNarrowboaters Yes, I was thinking about this and wondering what it felt like on the boat when the buffer was being lifted out of the slots - ?! If I ever manage to get onto the canals I will be on my own and will have to be really aware of what's happening. I've done a lot of sailing and was a yacht designer of sorts so hopefully will manage. I must apologise for an earlier comment I made, that was completely out of order
Hi John
Not aware of any out of order comment. Anyway no apologies required, things can easily come across in different ways than was intended. 👍
@@TheTillerPeopleNarrowboaters How do you think the boat managed to catch on the buffer enough to lift it out of the slots? Bow? Stern? Rudder perhaps or the horizontal bar on which the rudder is hung maybe?
It was the bow of the boat that caused the problems. Different narrowboat shell are designed differently so it is difficult to say. Some have a piece of steel protruding from the baseplate which could easily hook into the cill buffer. That is just a guess from us as we never knew the actual cause. 👍
Good to chat with you the other day at the locks, think you should both work on a duet??!! Keep up the great videos cheers
Hi there.... nice to talk to you, seems a long time ago now. No duet though 😂😂😂.
Thank you for watching 😎😎
Nice to know why you had a traffic jam😁👏👍
Hi David, thought you might enjoy this one. We found it interesting too. It shows how the historic locks need to be treated with care & respect 😎😎
There is a certain Boater who thinks that smashing your boat into a gate is how you stop your boat, I wonder if He did this also..............................
Hi Bill
Nothing more annoying than seeing damage caused by a selfish boater. They are the same type of people who moan about everything yet contribute very little. We found out later that the boater who caused the damage
( accidently ) phoned CRT to report what had happened.
Stay safe. B & K 👍💑😷
1 working, 7 supervising, hehe
Hi
We know what you mean but in reality they all did their bit over a long period of time.
Stay safe. B & K 👍💑
Just wondering whether you piled in and helped the CRT guys - ? I don't have a boat yet but I know how much the licence costs, I would have at least offered to help or just helped anyway
Hello there John. Nobody can just 'pile' in when CRT are working. The work is done by highly skilled engineers who follow strict Health & Safety guidelines. What we do though, is offer cups of tea, bacon butties & biscuits. Hope you enjoyed watching our video. Hope you get chance to subscribe.
@@TheTillerPeopleNarrowboaters Fair comment Guys. I'd had a bit too much vodka when I wrote that. Apologies. Good video and yes, I am subscribed
Cheers John & thanks for subscribing 👍👍
Are there edible fish in these canals? It looks like the water is rather stagnant.
Hi there we would never eat anything from the canal. 🤔
@@TheTillerPeopleNarrowboaters Glad to hear that. It definitely does not have the appearance of a healthy ecosystem. It is really kind of sad though as catching your dinner right outside the kitchen would be kind of cool. How frequently do they clean out each section?
Canals are generally not the cleanest of waterways, the design and use means they will have some pollution. Years ago during the Industrial Revolution so many waste products went into the canals, they became known as toxic waterways. When canals start to get very shallow due to silt they are dredged so that boats are not on the bottom, that is the nearest thing to cleaning out canals.
canalrivertrust.org.uk/specialist-teams/engineering/dredging?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8r7CzvCJ5QIVBbTtCh2GrgSXEAAYAyAAEgL0xPD_BwE
Cheers B & K 👍😊☺📹🍵☕
What is the status of Middlewich? Has it been resolved?
Hi Carl the updates on the breach at Middlewich can be found here......
canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/where-we-work/north-west/middlewich-branch-breach
Does anyone there use a bow thruster?
Hi Lawrence
Many narrowboats including our have bow thrusters. Some people use and rely on them far too much. We hardly use ours, preferring to use proper helmsman skills. Stay safe. B & K 👍💑😷
Those canals don't look very deep"! Mostly about three feet. 🤔⛵
Hi James
Most man made canals are quite shallow. These days three feet or above would be considered to be very good. Over the years canals have silted up and need dredging regularly.
Cheers. B & K 👍😊☺🍻
B&K, can you tell me why they have a sign. of a man fighting with his brolly on the towpath?
Cheers Eh!
Hahaha 😄😄 we'll watch out for the signs. Thank you for watching 👍👍
Must have been some hull damage when dislodging that heavy sill plate, any rumours up and down the cut?
Yes it must have made a big 'clunk'! No we haven't heard anything. Hope everyone was OK though 😎😎