Graham Davis
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9 minutes ago, LadyG said:
The rudder is not in place, and neither is tiller, they are in two pieces.
Yes, I have considered some sort of lash up with a steering oar, but I am not going to try going through a tunnel in such a condition, even if I happened to have one, it would be dangerous IMHO. Furthermore I think it would invalidate insurance.
RCR do not have a tow boat here, they are not able to assist.
I will wait for a tow from a boater, I cannot do anything else. See the title of the thread.
There are very few boats near me, none of them are occupied.
I'm intrigued. Why do you think it would be dangerous?
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Perhaps RCR know of LadyG's reputation?
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Haven't worked out the number of locks, but before we had kids 4 of us did Lowesmoor Wharf in Worcester - Tardebigge - Gas St - Farmers Bridge - Ashted - Solihull - Knowle - Kingswood - Tardebigge - Worcester.
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On 23/12/2021 at 11:47, Pluto said:
This was the standard type of drain plug used on the L&LC. It was easy to fit onto the wooden culverts which were often used for small water passages under the canal, but would need some form of connection between the frame and the culvert for more recent culvert designs. There is water pressure to overcome when opening, as this one has a winch fitted to the towpath wall to open it. The chain would be long enough to reach the towpath wall, where it could easily be retrieved, and a rope extension fitted which would then be wound around the winch. Such a system should be fairly cheap to install, and be difficult to vandalise, especially if the winch was made removable. Once fitted, it can be virtually ignored, unlike modern valves which need opening and closing routinely to ensure their operation.
Something similar to that was fitted in the Worcester & Birmingham, around the top of the Worcester flight, and failed several years ago, draining a long section of canal.
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36 minutes ago, booke23 said:
No excuse for stupidly. I'd simply question who is the stupidee.....the guy for parking there, or the powers that be (I'm pretty sure the RNLI don't own the land in front of their boathouse) for painting what look a lot like parking bays for cars and trailers, rather than proper hatching. Especially when life depends on it.
Car park markings are done in white paint not yellow!
I think you might need to go and get your eyes tested!-
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14 hours ago, BeatTheSystem said:
I am satisfied that the seller is the owner. There really needs to be titles or a DVLA style registration for these beasts, its like the wild west.
DVLA vehicle registration does not register owners, just keepers. That is stated on the V5 for any vehicle.
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May also mean that NR need to block the line so that they can get access and deal with the tree. That can take a while to organise.
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We walked part of it the year before last and there seemed to be several streams entering it.
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1 minute ago, manxmike said:
Maybe so, but my point remains that financially and environmentally it would make sense to move freight by rail instead of road.
Whilst it is a great idea, the problem is that the railway has generally lost it's marshalling yards and many of the regional distribution centres are no longer rail connected, plus on some lines being able to timetable slower running freight in amongst faster passenger traffic is almost impossible. One of the reasons that HS2 is being built as the west coast main line is running at 99% capacity and there is no room for the freight trains.
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Duplication reported.
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Perhaps you could explain the relevance of that post to a thread that is 3 years old?
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13 hours ago, LadyG said:
I have never owner either a firearm or a shotgun, so I did not need a Purchase Certificate, I was supervised by the guy who had these things.
I did not consult with AdE, he was not there, in fact its bugger all to do with him. 💯
It's a PUBLIC discussion forum, it isn't up to you who joins in that discussion!
And you got lots of your "facts" wrong.-
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4 minutes ago, LadyG said:
eh?
Yes, as of January Amazon will not accept a UK based Visa card as a means of payment. Whether this has shot them in the foot or not we will not know.
However if you change your payment method to a debit card they should credit you with £20. I finally got my £20 but I had to work to get it.-
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6 minutes ago, Tarboat Tim said:
Agreed Graham. If ever I’m in that part of the world I’d probably pull over and check it out myself. Mind you, estimating slight rises and falls to these levels of accuracy, when the canal is some distance away, really needs the proper kit I suspect. Still, there’s no harm in having a good old look at it 😉
From my perusing of the OS map, I’d estimate the canal level to be somewhere >90 and <95m. Best guess around 93-94m. If u ever do have a gander at it, pop it on the end of this thread!Cheers. Tim
I've got a handheld Garmin GPS that seems fairly accurate, so can try that.
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Perhaps one of these days I'll park up at Garthmyl and walk down that length and take some comparative (rough) height comparisons.
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23 hours ago, Tarboat Tim said:
Hi Graham, I agree about the road - I think the drop lock may be the only game in town, but I detest them. Two separate locks with a 100-200 yard pound between them would be much easier to work and safer, but would cost more to do. So we’ll get a 7’ version of that abort**n in Glasgow.
Running towards Newtown - nah, it’s a goer. If you take a look at the challenges that the Rochdale and HNC got over/under/around, this is small beer. The 483 crossings are a bit nasty, and the worst is the first going south. The route there has already been identified, dont go under the road there, go another 150 yards or so south, where the 483 has climbed, then go under it. Doable but not particularly cheap.The other two crossings I only have a hazy recollection of, but IIRC the carriageway is quite a lot higher than the canal, so driving a ‘tunnel’ thro underneath is, again, viable. I seem to remember that along that length the road embankment has also taken up part of the canal - that will need some sorting out as well. There are lots of other bits and bobs, missing piped min-aqueducts etc, but no real deal breakers.
The three crossings at Garthmyl and going south look to be the biggest problem to me.
The northern one, by the rebuilt Crow's warehouse, the canal looks to be only just above the road, then it has to cross the side B road towards Montgomery. I can't see a way of going around that, since the pub is in the way, as is the entrance to Garthmyl Hall.
The next two, Fron and Abernant, are again almost on a level with the road. Perhaps what could be done there is to remove both of those and build a new canal alongside the road, between it and the river. That would only need a bridge over the "yellow" that leads towards Severn Villa and towards the Golf Club
Entering Newtown the bed is drained & filled in, and sold off. However and not really built on until you get to around Cymric Mill when it used to leave the side of the river and head into the terminal basin complex. That last few hundred yards has gone.
It would be interesting to see how far they could get, but agreed the last section disappeared long ago.
The rest has been kept pretty open, largely preserved by that cycle route. Newtown council is also bound and determined it will get there one day, so the odds on getting planning permission for further development on the line are slim to none.It’ll happen, I do hope I stay around long enough to see it!!
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29 minutes ago, Slim said:
Try wearing hearing aids, a Covid mask and glasses. Impossible unless your name is Spock.
Well my name's not Spock and I manage.
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Ignoring the snide comment, the A38 roundabout had an easy way to arrange a diversion around one side of it whilst the work was under way, this would not be available on the A438.
Nebulae,I am sure there were two CaRT boats moored up at Welshpool a couple of months ago when I went past, but perhaps it was a tug and hopper.
Tim,
I'm not sure the residents of Maerdy Cottage would be too happy to have a new road embankment on the side of their house!
Realistically, could they ever get to Newtown? From Berriew I calculate there are 3 crossings of the A438, and much of the route in town has been obliterated and built over. I suspect if it did happen it would have to end somewhere near Rock Farm in Llanllwchaiarn or even down by the Nature Reserve. -
7 hours ago, nebulae said:
I am surprised at some of the negative posting on this subject.
Like David I am not being negative and would love to see the canal open to Welshpool or even further south, but I also am realistic that the problems of the A483 are going to be the biggest set-back to this. And I don't think that the Stroudwater roundabout is comparable to a major trunkroad between Mid and North Wales
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No Mr Brown you still come over as I suggested.
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There is no way on earth the Highways Agency are going to allow on lift bridge on the A438!
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3 hours ago, nick_theboatman2 said:
Nope. There are however some Roma and Irish Travellers who _are_ protected but everyone else are regarded as "New Travellers" who Thatcher decided were scumbags.
We are also Masters of our boats. We do have the power of arrest, of course.1/
I think you need to learn to read, especially what the Act really says, not what you think it does.
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Ever heard the term "barrack room lawyer", because boy do you come over as one!
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Too lazy to get a brush and do it yourself then?
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1 hour ago, nick_theboatman2 said:
The obligation is to move to anew place every 14 days (or longer if reasonable in the circumstances [and reasonable cannot be laid down in advance]) and "place" is undefined but stems from the evidence: place on the map; local knowledge; either side of a clear obstruction; a village -> outside the village -> next village (3 places); a different borough; and so on.
The differences in the needs of itinerant live-aboards and recreational boaters are stark.
So for example the NHS worker who needs to get to an early shift isn't going to be best pleased to have to drive 20 miles having walked down the muddy towpath in the dark, are they? But that is what the legislation + the "Ts & Cs" say.... (no amount of banging saucepans mitigates that). and we've got a few of them....Oh dear!! I can think of plenty of NHS workers who travel much further than that to work, often along wet, muddy country lanes, in the dark and sometimes in the snow.
It isn't just non-moving boaters you know!
And your subsequent postings suggest that it is you who is prejudiced.-
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