IanM

Just slightly off topic, Stanegarth is now at the bottom of a lake in Leicestershire https://www.stoneycove.com/stanegarth/

That is the example I was thinking of above.

You need to think in three dimensions. If the landscape was completely flat and all the mine workings are below that level then yes, all the water would flow to the bottom and the concept wouldn't work. That isn't always the case though. If the mine was on a hill you could tap a water source for the wheel and also construct a horizontal tunnel for that water to exit the mine on the hillside above the majority of the mine workings. That wheel then drives a pump to lift water from deeper down. The water table doesn't sit at sea level. Even if your mine isn't at the lowest point in the landscape you will likely encounter water which needs removing. The fact that waterwheel driven pumps have existed in mines means that the concept works, even if just where the topography allows.

If it’s like the one I’ve seen in Cornwall they’re driven by water to drive a pump to pump water out. Sounds weird but the source water is diverted out at a higher level to what is being pumped out.

Just looking through Humphrey Household's book on the Thames & Severn Canal which references the wind pump and well I posted before. This [the well] had been sunk to a depth of 54 1/2 feet, whence a borehole had been driven some fifty feet deeper... ...the company had installed a "Wind Engine", or six-sailed windmill, to work a pump of eleven-inch bore. it was capable of throwing up "several tons of water every minute"

Just thinking, but you don’t need to pump up the whole height of the flight as current back pumps do. Most of the pumps historically probably just pumped from wells sunk into the aquifer which weren’t nearly as deep. The later well at Thames Head for the steam pump on a different site to the wind pump I posted earlier had side galleries which increased the amount of water available.

Thames Head, Thames & Severn Canal 1790

I think that’s good of him. I always believed it wasn’t malicious and he was just playing with data without really thinking it through.

The owner of the site is also the one who has the YouTube channel with all the AI videos. As I said in the other post, I imagine he’s a big fan of AI and is using it to interrogate some database or other whether live or a past version as a way of finding out what it can do and populate his website. I don’t think there’s any malice behind it but I wouldn’t have thought they have thought it through, or maybe just don’t care.

Just the guys name is the closest you can get to finding out who runs the site. https://www.canalboats.com/author/stephen/

That was my thinking too. With all the AI generated images the site has I imagine that the guy running it is a fan of AI and is creating scripts and other things to populate his site with whether good or bad.

That is interesting, especially as it lists where boats are 'based'. Can't see that being a good thing in some circumstances.

Did I mention that it also relies on me remembering to take the photos too? 😄

I used to just carry a notebook and record everything. It got very battered but was full of times and notes. Now I just take pictures of random bridges, etc and where we moor as it then has the time stamps on the file so I can make the notes afterwards.

That's exactly what I found yesterday but when I looked this morning it came up with nothing as @Tony Brooks found. I knew I hadn't imagined it!