MagnetMan at work................

[bargiepat]

Hi,

I met Magnetman at the top of the Napton flight , he was moored just above the top lock and he came to say hello just as I was going down.

I stoped for lunch just next to the winding hole at the bottom and saw him passing. He was draging a magnet as he was heading towards Braunston. Apparently he does this when ever he can !!!!!! Here is a pic.

 

 

Regards Patrick.

[magnetman]

What a nice picture!

[Bones]

coolio.... when are you getting to the south south oxford?

[carlt]

coolio.... when are you getting to the south south oxford?

If he does get down to you, Bones, cook him a good meal. He looks like your avatar!

[Christine]

Shove over Bones ...that boy needs a good mothering

[Bones]

If he does get down to you, Bones, cook him a good meal. He looks like your avatar!

 

 

you've never had my cooking have you!!!!

[Mrs Panda]

I think we saw him yesterday. we were moored outside The Bridge at Napton. Bridge no. 111. While waiting for Mr P to come back from the car shuffel (due to go home), I was on the back of the boat watching the entertainment the hire boaters were providing. When along came a boat with a fella dragging a magnet behind him. i know it was a magnet as he brought it out of the water and the couple of items that were on the end he threw back in and then the magnet. all without stopping and negotiating a line of moored boats!

Wish I had known, would have said hi.

Mrs P

[Dominic M]

What a nice picture!

Hey Magnet - you're heading my way! I'm setting off for a couple of weeks next weekend - where're you going?

[magnetman]

Going south on the GU, just met some wicked ghosts in Braunston tunnel they only come out at night, when its dark. Not enough food shops on the Oxford thats why i was looking a bit thin. More importantly nothing good on the magnet just grey puddling clay and bean tins.

[Dominic M]

Going south on the GU, just met some wicked ghosts in Braunston tunnel they only come out at night, when its dark. Not enough food shops on the Oxford thats why i was looking a bit thin. More importantly nothing good on the magnet just grey puddling clay and bean tins.

I'm setting off next weekend from Crick. If the weather doesn't look too stormy I'll take the Nene, otherwise the South Ox will beckon.

[Bones]

I'm setting off next weekend from Crick. If the weather doesn't look too stormy I'll take the Nene, otherwise the South Ox will beckon.

 

 

do come and say hello if you get onto the south south oxford!

[Simondrains]

Do you have a magnet of preference magnetman? Looks better than fishing

I reckon the Forth and Clyde needs magnetising.... (I could do with a new car)

Si

[Dominic M]

do come and say hello if you get onto the south south oxford!

I will - although from your previous post I probably should bring a packed lunch!

[Bones]

I will - although from your previous post I probably should bring a packed lunch!

 

or give me a days notice and I will do what I can do - cook curry!

 

 

edit: although if you make it down at the same time as Magnet Man I could have a go at one of those roast things.....

Edited September 23, 2007 by Bones

[Dominic M]

or give me a days notice and I will do what I can do - cook curry!

I'll have a 23 and a 49 with some poppadums, please.

[Bones]

I'll have a 23 and a 49 with some poppadums, please.

 

poppadums...yer avin a larf!

[magnetman]

Edited to remove over-anorakish comment

Edited September 23, 2007 by magnetman

[Dominic M]

poppadums...yer avin a larf!

Indeed I am

although if you make it down at the same time as Magnet Man I could have a go at one of those roast things.....

Magnet: who said there was no such thing as a free lunch? Edited September 23, 2007 by Dominic M

[Simondrains]

Edited to remove over-anorakish comment

 

 

What's wrong with anoraks?

Edited September 23, 2007 by Simondrains

[carlt]

Do you have a magnet of preference magnetman? Looks better than fishing

I reckon the Forth and Clyde needs magnetising.... (I could do with a new car)

Si

I understand he favours this variety:-

 

Ebay magnet clicky

[down the north]

I understand he favours this variety:-

 

Ebay magnet clicky

 

Hi Magnet man, we have a lot in common !!!! have done for years,,,,,, my heap of rusty and not so rusty windlasses now is about 2ft high !! thinking of welding them all together , and planting them in concrete at the bottom of hurleston locks to show my appreciation,,,, dedicated losers can hack one off as they enter the LLangollen in anticipation of an impending loss !!!

Found my 1st chrome plated wrought about a month ago on the cheshire locks,,,, (location confidential as its a honey pot )

had to make a stash as the bike was getting top heavy,,,, with 17 double eyes on , plus the barnacles, avoiding dumping them all , and me back in the cut was a challenge,,,

Whats the 'best find' to date then,,,???

( my mag came out of an x ray machine at a scrapyard,,,,) bin goin strong for years,,

cheers matey,

martin

[Christine]

I always have a trawl about first thing in the morning before the others get up. I meet lots of early-birds out along the towpath - with the usual comments like 'Oh have you got an underwater dog?'

 

The most things I find are those long steel spikes that they use around road works or bridge repairs to hold up 'Danger - keep out' plastic tape and scaffold clips.

[down the north]

I always have a trawl about first thing in the morning before the others get up. I meet lots of early-birds out along the towpath - with the usual comments like 'Oh have you got an underwater dog?'

 

The most things I find are those long steel spikes that they use around road works or bridge repairs to hold up 'Danger - keep out' plastic tape and scaffold clips.

 

Eh up,,,,,, you are fishing in the right place around locks ??? theres that much scrap everywhere else , I think a skip and a hiab would be better !!

martin

[tomsk]

poppadums...yer avin a larf!

 

 

Quite possible to do Pappadums in a microwave mmmnnn

[Chris J W]

Gonna have to get me one of these magnet things when I pop into the swindelry tomorrow. Decided to buy myself a nice, new, windlass and I've no intention of leaving it in the bottom of a lock! (Ok ... stay tuned for the tail of when I loose it at the first lock ...)