magnetman

I think the original idea with satisfying the bored was that 'If you need to work then you need a mooring' and 'If you don't need to work then you don't need. mooring'. This looks after comfortably orf people free of the encumbrance of what is rather an awkward situation while keeping the workers in their place. Its understandable. As someone who has never needed to work I am quite aggrieved by the increase in the number of people who clearly do need to work living on Boats without moorings. It is unacceptable for a number of different reasons not least the engine and generator noises. I blame Gordon Brown and the invention of the mass produced internet. Also mobile phones. Yars ago it was all great less so now. Don't mention the children! I remember (before getting embroiled with the Woman) getting comms from BW about how having a job or children was not compatible with cc ing. So we got a mooring. Then all of a sudden its fine to have children and no mooring just get on with it. Its shocking !!

Yes. But they must be trained about this. It is not something which would come out of the blue. You are at the front of a basically unstoppable wheeled vehicle weighing hundreds of tonnes. There is nothing the train driver can do about it. Surely it is a hazard of the job which is known about. I'm not saying it is nice but you are talking about a trained professional not a random dog walker. I found a suicide in the Thames once. Didn't cause me any discomfort really its just a corpse but the gore thing would be nasty. My mother made sure the person who found her (at home) would be her mental health nurse. A trained professional who can deal with these things and will have the skillset to handle it. Working with majorly depressed people is going to have this outcome sometimes. One of her brothers allowed his own daughter to find him hanging from a tree. Very disrespectful I feel - that is something to be avoided. Anyway yes it is sad for the train driver but also something they probably have to accept as a hazard of the job as more or less impossible to prevent.

I think you are getting confused between A.Dunkley and N.Moore. The former had his Boats (a narrow Boat and a commercial barge) removed by section 8 and sold/scrapped on behalf of the CRT. The latter (@nigelmoore rip) won in court against BWB around an unusual riparian ownership circumstance on the river Brent. Tony Dunkley in fact lost the Boat in the end because he was taking the piss of the Boat Safety exemption too much. He might have had a point on other factors of the case but was too obstinate to understand that the BS exemption is not just a loophole allowing you to have no BS certificate.

It was the case with my mother. and her brother. And my cousin. They had all been stopped previously but later completed. The other two of her brothers appeared to manage on the first attempt. Some people actually mean it and are not attention seekers but I suppose with the public nature of railway lines there may be a higher probability of attention seekers. Also there is the very nasty danger of having a pram taken by a fast train. Its just odd that taking Maidenhead as an example there have been express trains passing through for decades and nobody thought a fence separating platforms was needed until a few months ago.

surely the effect of pm2.5 would depend on population density. I'm sure a lot of people quite like the smell of wood smoke on a cool evening and are quite prepared to take the risk of dying horribly.

I had a pint with myself. The conversation was very interesting.

My residential mooring is 22m x 4.1m but my Boat is only 10m x 3m. Mooring fee is the same regardless of Boat size. Its not a marina.

Always worth being aware of the ultracrepidarians. The internet has changed the game. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ultracrepidarian ."In Book 35 of his Natural History, Pliny the Elder records that a shoemaker noted that one figure had the wrong number of straps on his crepida, a kind of elaborate sandal. Delighted to see it fixed the next day, he supposedly began to critique the form of the leg, so annoying Apelles that the painter came out to tell him to mind his own business: that a shoemaker should restrict his commentary to the shoes. This became a Latin proverb as ne suprā crepidam sūtor iūdicāret (“Let not the cobbler pass judgment beyond the shoes”)." Ultracrepidarianism is more common than one might at first assume. The Appelles geyser sounds quite shrewd. He would hide behind his paintings and listen to the criticisms. No flies on that one.

Someone must have had fun working it all out taking into account extraction and transport for the manufactured stuff compared with trees. Having said that I do disagree with cutting living trees.

You are right. I quite often get asked by staff at stations if I am 'alright' because I like looking at the tracks. Oddly my family has a very high suicide rate. Maybe these staff members are trained to see these things. I have no intention of following family tradition but the staff may be able to spot things. I actually had to tell someone at Maidenhead station quite recently that I was not going to jump because he definitely thought I was ! It is an interesting topic. Displacing the problem of suicide from railways could result in non professional non trained people finding the body. In the case of a train the driver must know the inevitability of animal and occasional human strikes. There is nothing they can do. One of my uncles used a 12 bore to rearrange his head. He was found by a random passer by. I wonder how well they dealt with that discovery. Its not ideal. Its never ideal but preventing railway deliberate deaths may be moving the problem elsewhere.

Actually I wired in a 12v-3.7v buck converter to the contacts instead of. battery. In order to fool the phone into thinking it has a battery one must solder a resistor of a certain value across two of the terminals. That way it will run off a 12v battery.

The thread I linked above is worth reading as it gives general information on how a dry sump engine such as this should be managed. The poster Timleech is RIP but was a very knowledgeable gentleman whose comments are always worth reading.

to be fair there is a big advantage if one has access to free firewood it has not been banned yet.

Is this a dry sump engine? Only one I can find is this I don't know but I'm thinking that JP engines are sometimes dry sump. engine has no dipstick Certainly a very handsome engine.

One could fit a solenoid valve in the fuel line with a hidden switch but then as with all these things one would have to remember to switch it on !

Was that on the Great Ouse somewhere down Huntingdon way? Hartford marina

79ft narrow Boat? It will be quite technical to get a 70ft narrow Boat onto land unless you can somehow drag it sideways out of the water. If the Boat is elsewhere its going to need cranes both ends and a large transporter wagon. All of these pieces of machinery will need proper roadways. I wouldn't touch it with a largepole.

Definitely a better option and can be delivered using a bog standard hiab truck whereas a narrow Boat might be too heavy. Indeed. It will be interesting to see how policy makers deal with it. People moan about the CRT but it will be a .gov body with real powers which eventually sorts it out. This country is changing fast isn't it.

I once made a reed switch mooring alarm from an old Nokia button phone. You program no.2 speed dial to be your own phone number then dismantle the phone and solder thin wires onto the copper pads beneath no 2. Wire that to normally closed (NC) reed switch. Put a magnet beside the reed switch and it will be open circuit. If the magnet is moved (door open. Boat no longer moored etc) the NC reed switch closes the contact and phone dials your number. reed switch was inside a window stuck to a magnetic 2p coin and the magnet was stuck to this outside with fishing line leading to a tent peg on the bank. If the Boat becomes detached from the mooring you get a phone call when the magnet drops off the window. It did work.

I think it is a little disingenuous to suggest there will be no surprises. In this sort of situation it is regarded as wise to understand who might be looking at this kind of Boat given current circumstances. I believe it is a difficult Boat to sell. It is a nice Boat. Having owned a similar sized barge for ten yars I know it is too big for me. Interesting but it is a not something I would want to own