Rob-M
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10 hours ago, TheBiscuits said:
Shopping trolleys or vending machines?
Bloke I know used to work at BNFL, and apparently the nickel-brass bar stock was (eventually) very tightly controlled.
Slicing it into pound coin sized lumps kept many an apprentice in snacks.
We had a group of apprentices machine a batch of pound coins, they then used them in the fruit machine in the company canteen and we're almost sacked for fraud.
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
Lets guess £3k for a stand-alone LFP system with separate charge controller, cell protection
More like £6k when I discussed with Ed, I would have to replace alternator and battery charger and included upgrading inverter.
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10m would be a fairly small mat.
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18 minutes ago, Francis Herne said:
Currently down the pub with the BCNS workboat mob after a productive fishing expedition. Fairly typical for a Saturday afternoon.
(7.5 trolleys, 3 chairs, 2 traffic cones, a small table, a hoover, a toilet, a big bit of pipe, a brand-new mattress, a mirror, a unicorn hobbyhorse, a wooden toy fish and 28 bags of other stuff)
In forum members I've met Stroudwater1, Goliath, ditchcrawler, roland elsdon, and agg221 in that order, although for most of those I didn't know at the time... No pints though.
I believe you sat next to me for the meal after the challenge, I had at least one pint.
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1 hour ago, David Mutch said:
Brettell Lane bridg
We've had a few close scrapes with the working boats on that bridge.
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28 minutes ago, Tonka said:
So have i
And I've had a few pints with him.
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Just now, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
I’m misreading the map,
I thought it looked as though there were 2 locks side by at Delph Road
There is the area by the bottom lock where you can moor, not sure if there is any historical significance of that area.
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We pay by boat length but in payment brackets so we are in the up to 60' band for a 57' boat and didn't pay anything extra when on a 70' jetty and wouldn't pay any less if on a 50' jetty.
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Dumpy from Dumpy's Rusty Nuts.
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Autumn 2016 Boundary Post included the photo and was titled Lock keepers cottage 151 on the original line of the Delph.
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Such a shame it has been left to get in this state after the effort that went in to the last restoration.
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10 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Nobody has as yet come up with an answer to my point that the whole concept of semi-reserved moorings for disabled boaters is fundamentally flawed and so a great waste of time and money - CRT will spend a bomb installing and maintaining them, if not buying them. The bollards are a bit of an irrelevancy.
Decent visitor moorings are always in short supply, especially ones with good access, mooring bollards and close to facilities, which is where these will be. So, if they are usable by able bodied boaters, they will be the first ones taken up. Quite rightly. What's the disabled one to do? They can't just stop in the middle of the cut, cut the resident boat adrift and moor up. I suppose they could moor elsewhere and then, hoping the other boater is in rather than walking the dog, shopping, or in France for the week, go and ask them to move if wheelchair access was needed (but then you wouldn't need the bollards!). They can then practise reversing past a stack of other boats to reach the prime spot, while the original boat does the opposite.
Having had a few mouthfuls of abuse for asking fit young chaps to shift from disabled parking bays when taking my gran to the shops, none of whom saw any reason to move, I doubt that anyone would bother to ask, though admittedly we are generally a nicer lot - but look at the number of complaints about "git gaps" and boats refusing to move up to make space.
They should be permanently reserved for disabled boaters or they're pointless, just gesture politics. And you'd still get complaints about users not being disabled enough...
There are already moorings in various locations designated as disabled moorings, the ones I've seen have normal mooring bollards but they have a disabled symbol embossed on the top and some have been painted red or yellow. I guess it is down to individuals whether they choose to moor there or not if they don't have a disability.
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17 hours ago, Jerra said:
Assuming we take Ian's point about disabled boaters knowing more about it than we do.
Does anybody know/have seen/heard of a narrowboat with no able bodied crew?
I am just pondering why disabled boaters felt the need to request special bollards unless they are in the habit of having no able bodied crew. I am trying to visualise a situation where able bodied crew sit back and leave mooring to somebody not fully able.
The people I have boated with who have a disability (two women and one man) would aim to swap tasks requiring agility or strength or good vision etc for jobs they felt more suitable. Hence my question about able bodied crew.
I watched a chap mooring his boat up who clearly did not have the use of his legs as he shuffled along the towpath on his bottom. He was very proficient at getting his boat tied up and what appeared to be his able bodied wife stood and held a rope whilst he got the boat tied up.
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Just now, Victor Vectis said:
I like the photos!
And try to play 'spot the location' before gettin gto the captions.
Same here, trying to see if it is somewhere I know before scrolling down to reveal.
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1 hour ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
Instead of just photos
The thread was started to post photos.
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Agree, CRT should do more to explain why work is done and whether it was funded through their general budget or a specific project budget. I've been involved in a number of projects funded through particular grants that could only be used for the project but for anyone who didn't know this would consider it a waste of money.
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1 hour ago, Tony Brooks said:
However, I still think that it uses the Android operating system
It is Android but Samsung overlay their own user interface customisations over the top which you can't disable. I really do not like the Samsung interface on my work phone which is why my personal android phone is Motorola because they leave the UI alone and just add some optional features that you can enable or disable.
The downside with lower cost Android tablets is often performance is poor due to lack of memory, reduced storage and lower spec processor.
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15 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
WS2 8QD
its not marked on my maps as a pub by I’m certain it still exists,
was there last year
Was a question on the BCN challenge a few years ago.
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Today, 2024
An icy start to the day.
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I had a brief discussion with a lithium installer who uses an Alpha Pro as part of the install and he said he has to fit a manual switch to turn off alternator charging as this can't be done with the Alpha Pro.
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I presume it is Glevum, the Roman name for Gloucester.
Would fit with this oil painting image I found on the web, Saracen in Gloucester docks.
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1 minute ago, IanD said:
Assuming you mean at Great Heywood
Yes I did.
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4 hours ago, IanD said:
I did mean from the POV of mooring there... 😉
For one thing, I doubt that their pontoons can be as lethally slippery (and long!) as the ones at Uplands were last week -- carrying stuff to the boat I nearly slipped over and fell in more than once. And don't get me started about the muddy swamp around the car park and access areas, where my wife *did* actually fall over at night and end up bruised and covered in mud... 😞
The pontoons have all been upgraded in the last few years with good non slip surfaces and each finger jetty is the length of the boat and a reasonable width.
Curtain and blind advise please
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We have custom made blinds from cabin care (https://www.cabincare.co.uk/boat-blinds-and-curtains.php)