Jim Riley
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On 15/03/2024 at 14:50, Pluto said:
This is the oldest Rochdale paddle gear I found when researching the paddle gear in 2004. It is on the water supply at Summit West. The ground plan of the stand is identical to the remaining indentations on some locks where new paddles have been installed. The XL file lists all the different types I found, and whether the lock had intermediate gate recesses for C&HN length boats.
paddle:lock details.pdf 47.74 kB · 7 downloads
You may find the text from my report on the Rochdale paddle gear of interest, along with incomplete detailed history of each lock.
Lock details.pdf 178.27 kB · 4 downloads Report 2.docx 39.94 kB · 5 downloads
Is that the feed control at Warland Gate, near the swing bridge? My mooring is in that pound.
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12 minutes ago, magnetman said:
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Who's asking you, I was addressing your carer😂
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23 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Isn't it a bit patronising to have special types of bollards?
Does he take sugar?
Certainly not, I'd give people the opportunity. A bit like putting someone in a bucket harness and hoicking them up in the air, or it taking 3 people to help someone experience tightrope walking. By your reasoning, giving them a special set of wheels on a chair is equally patronising. Do you take sugar?
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1 hour ago, Jon57 said:
Sky blue pink with yellow knobs on them to please all gendas is the way to go. 🥴
All genders? Men are from Mars, Women from Venus, the other genders from Uranus.
New post merged...edit.
There's an idea going around that someone in a wheelchair is useless, only to be pushed on and off the boat. Just maybe, they might like to try doing a bit more, whatever they are capable of trying or doing. Taller bollards assist with this. Having worked with people with disabilities they know what they might like to try or be capable of, they may need support and encouragement. Or not, let them get on with it.
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On the subject of accessibility, Salter Hebble Guillotine has instructions in Braille. Not sure how that could be used safely by a blind person, how would they know when to hit the emergency stop etc.
2 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:Surly an equal part of the function of these bollards is to make it absolutely obvious that the moorings are reserved for disabled boaters and that they can be identified at a distance before A) an able body boater has come in to moor and B ) that a disabled boater can see them as they aproach the mooring and not need to go ashore to search for them.
How does that work then, waterpoints are highly visible but can still be moored on for days. The trick would be to make them Entitled Idiot proof.
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Why is Airbnb relevant, you are hiring out your.boat for short term lets Shirley. Airbnb is just the advert, you manage it yourself? Has Airbnb been specifically excluded?
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1 hour ago, Ronaldo47 said:
There's probably some legal requirement to use metric units in official documents.
Nah, it's been changed to Pints now😂
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A member of the Non Boating Travel Agents perchance, has to stay near work?
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10 minutes ago, Ian Mac said:
Of course the Rochdale Canal Company did have a lot of reservoirs at the summit, but they sold them off in 1923 to Rochdale local authority, for public water supply, keeping the right to just a small feed, which is still the case. UU now own those reservoirs, and every now and then they attempt to sell them back to C&RT, who ask for the reservoir report and then correctly say NO, you fix the problems, some of which have now been fixed I believe.
So the next time UU look at there books, the trust may acquire them, we can only wait and see.
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cheers Ian Mac
Certainly there's a new spillway on Chelburn, just above Summit West, not been by the upper ones for a while.
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On 20/01/2024 at 22:53, IanD said:
You got it -- after all they run the country and DEFRA and make the decisions about the canals (and rail, and roads, and the NHS...), so who else's fault would it be?
Oh yes, I forgot, it's all Richard Parry's fault. So presumably if Boris or someone similar had been in charge we'd all be cruising happily through sunlit uplands...
Not enough water in the broad uplands though, in summer anyway. Whats needed is a few reservoirs around the summit level😉
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My initial email told them their info was the subject of much ridicule on a discussion forum.
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Latest email back regarding the misinformation, looks like it's being thought about
Good morning,Having reviewed your original email and with the correct information to hand I can fully understand your concerns regarding the published information.I have sent over a request to our Web Content team asking for the restricted and unrestricted widths to be published with more clarity and this will be completed in due course.Thank you for raising this with us, i'm sure it will prove very helpful to boaters going forward.-
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On 12/01/2024 at 23:01, dmr said:
The winding hole situation on the Rochdale is not good so it could well be down to a lack of records. Neither of these two locations in your post are signed as winding holes. The slightly wider bit below lock 19 is a popular winding hole, especially with the Shire Cruisers hire boats coming up from Sowerby. But its tight, i'm not even sure that a 57 foot boat can get round. More importantly it has mooring bollards right opposite so it is quite legitimate for it to be blocked by moored boats.
The better spot is just below Baltimore marina and a full length boat can turn there if it hits the right spot, but again its not signed and boats do sometimes moor opposite.
The wide bit at Nip Square (Walsden Pool?) is good but again not signed, but its so big that a sign is not really needed, but there are a couple of other spots that look pretty good but are heavily silted.
The dry dock entrance in Hebden Bridge is quite good, there was a "no mooring" sign opposite but thats gone, and boats moored in the drydock entrance can make turning difficult. After that its a case of booking the deep lock and turning at the Calder and Hebble junction.
Below lock 33 is a great spot but again not signed and again sometimes blocked with a moored boat.
As we have a 70+ foot boat we are a bit semsitive to these things 😀. I have thought about trying to get CRT to improve things, but cynically I fear they might put a lot of effort into a "blue signing oppurtunity" and I would rather see the time and money going into maintanance.
But to answer your question:
RD-020-001 Nip Square Wide
RD-017-004 Golden Lion Bridge
Would 35/36 pound above you be useable if it was dredged?
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What ticks on a wall?
'ticky paper.
Blame my Dad for that one.
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11 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
could be an ideal job for someone who knows how to walk on stilts 👍Yeh right, it would be worse than a muddy event field, sinking in up to where one's knees used to be!
6 minutes ago, MtB said:Sheep on stilts. That's the answer!!
Now now, you'll get the Yorkshire stiltwalkers all excited...
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Throw a dog in too, speed up the process.
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Thanks Alan, blatantly stolen to post on Rochdale Canal FB groups. With the headline obvs. Giggle!
I may well be one of the last people to pay for a ticket to traverse Rochdale Canal Summit. I lived in Smithybridge, in 1983 2 mates and I set off to Sowerby in a Canadian canoe and a kayak, I'd made folding trolleys with pram wheels, we had to portage not just round the locks but along whole dry stretches, the MSC Job Creation Scheme was doing its stuff. One of my mates was a supervisor on the scheme - got me the wellies and donkey jacket!
As we got to the Summit West Lock with it's pretty lock house, still owned by Rochdale Canal Co, the little old lady lockie came out and demanded payment, maybe a 50p or something, it wasn't much, we got a couple of little tickets. The trip took 4 days, an overnight stay each way in the wood below Shaw Wood Rd, one night in a field near the end at Sowerby. -
15 hours ago, Ian Mac said:
This is lock side 3 of 32. It is not totally unexpected to those of us that understand Marple locks. This is not a new problem. When we were attempting to restore the locks back in the 1960's , many had voids behind the walls. The solution when restoration came was to get a firm in from Liverpool called rock pool & grouting or some such name. They pressure injected the walls of all the chambers on the flight to stop up these voids, which it did to some extent. It also put a lot of concrete onto the floors of the chambers of some locks, which was hell to dig out.
The foreman of Marple locks at this time was a guy called Tommy Woods, he told us it would all end in failure and that what they use to do, was dig down behind the chamber walls and re puddle the clay, and that this had been a standard process, until after the war sometime, when they stopped, probably due to lack of traffic. I am not sure when the last commercial traffic went down Marple locks, probably late 50's.
The thing is, even by the early 1970's there were laws against digging deep trenches, so this is never going to happen, the only way now is to keep on top of the voids with squirty concrete and if that fails then do a rebuild with a back shell of concrete as was done at locks 15 and 11.
Pluto talks of ground water, this is normally accommodated for by having wooden lock floors, several of the Marple locks have wooden tail bays, my memory is not good enough to know if lock 7 was one such lock.
Other locks with this construct that I know of are
Dungbooth Lock 22W on the HVNC - which explains why the lock walls have rotated and made this lock narrower than most.
Locks 50 & 49 on the Rochdale canal both of which have been replaced, recently
Lock 2 on the Rochdale
I have 3 of the old planks to prove it, awaiting a round tuit to make a garden bench.
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4 hours ago, MtB said:
My God, have you been living under a stone?!
Thunderboat is the forum set up by all the bannees from here, after The Great Banning of 2017
Google it, as posting a link is banned in the forum rules IIRC.
Well, there's been a link in my profile for absolutely yonks.
Jim awaits knock on door from Mod.
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2 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
It's interesting, perhaps, that (as far as one can tell) all the support for "bad language" is coming from males and usually references (sometimes apparently gleefully) pejorative terms for female genitalia. It does rather suggest that some people should start to grow up, and that the ban may indeed be an educative factor in helping them to do so...
You haven't met my better half!!!! How does the percentage of female posters compare to the percentage of female members?
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On the other hand...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160303-the-surprising-benefits-of-swearing
I see that twat has been defined as a reference to female genitalia, that isn't it's only meaning, the original, immsmr, is to hit, as in "he twatted me on the neb". This was then transmuted by it's use to denote a successful encounter with a female as in "a Hit or score", from there to describing the genitalia.
Good there is no ban on Twunt though eh?
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On 15/08/2023 at 13:19, Naughty Cal said:
It doesn't help ours being front wheel drive with all the weight on the R Send.
Put the big Rs in the passenger seat, redistribution.😉
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On 27/07/2023 at 11:42, magnetman said:
Very few ebikes catch fire. Sometimes people fall in from boars and drown.
Always a pigging pain when that happens.
My trolling engine is being creative tonight.
Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.
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That's more fun than squabbling. I wish I was flexible enough to eat my nuts. The Pilates is helping.