waterworks

good job old Paddy wasn't on the crane ? My link

If you read any old Lister manual it states quarter of a pint of lube oil to a gallon of kero.

If anyone is thinking naughty things, Kerosene can't be used in a Diesel engine without adding oil to it to lubricate the pumps, and injectors.

please do not under any circumstances buy this pile of substandard Chinese consumer goods, i have never seen one in the flesh but even the picture screams cheap and nasty to me, a kipor is the minimum quality you want to deal with, this looks like a toy. also remember if you overload an inverter generator the inverter board will go "phut", for a kipor 2000 thats £240 a pop !

they're not back on the old trick of trying to cut down mooring time limits again to persecute CC'ers are they ? Don't these penpushers have anything better to do ?

It's not a weak point don't be daft, he's not parking his car up there is he ? Did i read it wrong or doesn't the OP want to cut the box section back either side of the vent ? It looks like a 4 " grinder would squeeze in there, might need a half worn down disk.

ooohh this guy is a health and safety fuhrer, that explains alot. He is going for the number one uptight, and angry member of this forum.

well if you have the proof of that your going to show us, i will gladly conceed. All i said was i dont remember seeing it in the byelaws.

i am not wrong, as i did not say every canal, at all times, on every lock, you just found SOME that had to be closed, i'm sure going through the Pennines is not a normal canal. The thing didn't last long anyway it closed in the 50's.

On the GU i don't see a tiny minority, i see about 50/50, i live here 24/7. it is not lazy or selfish, and it doesn't have to be justified, your not looking at the big picture, just your own single journey. ( which is selfish ) If you allways close gates then you will never arrive at a lock that is open & ready for you, if you leave open then in theory you will get 50% of locks in your favor in the long term. It's just common sense.

Handy gift from CRT to help you light the fire ? i have never heard of anyone paying one off, though now someone is going to rubbish that....

I see a major corrosion problem here if you warm the steel hull up, old steel boats usually go thin behind the stove area. I think you could look at bog standard pumped water underfloor heating to do what your proposing, don't re invent the wheel. Stainless tanks the whole bottom of the boat would cost so much you would loose the will to live.

The professional boaters never closed gates in the canal carring era. It is not considerate to force other boaters to do more work just because you can't see them following you. As i said, the idea of closing gates was invented by BW, it is not the correct way of working locks.

The boaters hand book is not the byelaws, one was written by serious commercial canal operators, ( with very big top hats ) the other by CRT who know even less than BW, and they knew nothing. closing gates was only invented by BW in the post war era when the system was going into deriliction, as an emergency measure to save water, CRT tell us now everything is all shiny and in perfect condition, so this measure does not apply anymore. They only keep repeating it because thats all they know, they can't tell you why. I will admit some pounds have to have the gates closed, but only a few short ones, and i don't have a crystall ball so i leave everything open. If CRT sign posted the leaky ones i would happily close.

standard BSS operating procedure is to do what you want , and then hide everything illegal for an hour every 4 years.

Top class chippy in the village there.

drill a small hole at the end of the crack to stop it spreading, then forget about it, it's not important.

i don't beleive in dumbing down lock working, like you suggest here. we can also say that you should operate locks according to the waterways byelaws book, which is quite detailed on every aspect of the subject, no where i can remember does it say you should or are required to close gates.

No it's not.

this is what happened to the last guy who used a non food grade tank...

I know how the trust is funded i just sent them 900 quid.