Moke

Isn’t the Macc closed as well?

I hear the decision on restrictions for the L&L will be taken next week. With closures following shortly after no doubt.

Plus. How do you get to the MSC from Anderton? It’s a bit of a route march by my calculations Yeah, it’s about £265 … but if it gets you there it’s probably worth it

I’ve had a chat with one of the names on the Peel paperwork list and he says he is willing to give us a look over and paperwork for a nice (for me that is) price Thanks Mr CRT, but to get to your meeting I’d have to go via the MSC which kind of defeats the object

It’s at a bit of a tangent but…..how feasible is a transit of the MSC to the Shropshire Union now that the Macclesfield route is shut for summer?

They certainly don’t want anyone heading south this year do they?

I’m hoping anything will be sorted anytime

The problem with heading east is that the canal is shut at Newley locks

Oh, I know about Wigan. That was planned into our itinerary but this latest stoppage keeps moving the goalposts a week at a time!

After wasting five weeks for the Wigan flight to reopen last year we got as far as kirkstall before we were stopped by the failure of river lock in Leeds. OK, turn round and overwinter in Skipton during which time the canal was closed between Newley and Kirkstall flights followed, just as we weee setting off, by the failure of Steg Neck lock! We’ve now heard conflicting reports of a closure at Rishton but I can’t find any reference to it on the CRT site, or on fact, anywhere other than an article found via Google that says there will be an update in October !…… are we trapped on here for ever? Can anyone out there shed any light on this?

If they were both lifting the same weight then yes. But of problem is the weight of the engine/gearbox means that one table is lifting a lot more weight than the other, in an attempt to keep things as simple as possible I fastened the two tables together and that plus the inline valve seems to keep the pair of them pretty level I feel I should apologize for hijacking’s this thread

They both work off the one pump. When I picked them up the chap told me what was needed to ensure they stayed balanced so I just ordered the fittings from the pump supplier. The lift pump is 240 volt so that runs off the inverter on the main boat and the drop solenoid is (supposedly) 24 volt but works fine when supplied with 12 volts if the battery is kept topped up.

They are about 4’ square, I believe they were built as demonstrators for a production line in a factory. They had about zero usage when I got them and are each rated at 1500kg lift capacity. The hardest part was getting them inside the boat as they’re not exactly light.

It works courtesy of a pair of lifting tables from fleabay and a hydraulic pump. You load the moke on then drop the floor to the baseplate thereby lowering the centre of gravity and increasing storage space. There’s also extra storage at the front/back where the outside seating used to be.

Ah but…. Does the floor go up and down like mine?