Best Boatwarming Gift

[ditchcrawler]

19 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

 

Recently discussed in the recent racist discussion on Coolie (Collie) hats.

 

 

 

Just had a knock on the roof off the boat, looked out the front door and there stands a collie looking at me, opened the door and he was straight on the deck and almost in the boat, thought it must be someone I know, then a strange (to me) lad comes into view and says is this your dog, its been following us along the towpath. As luck would have it he was wearing a collar with a phone number, so Collie and owner reunited.

 

[Ray T]

Have they any historical interest?

 

Available from UCC or the lock bookshop at Braunston.

 

Or a miniature windlass?

minature windlass | eBay

 

[Neil TNC]

4ft of scaffold pole with flattened end. (ideal for shifting stuck CaRT swingbridges etc)

[ditchcrawler]

2 hours ago, Neil TNC said:

4ft of scaffold pole with flattened end. (ideal for shifting stuck CaRT swingbridges etc)

I think they are called "putlog" the flat end goes between two bricks in the wall in a vertical joint 

[Neil TNC]

I now see ready made ones were available! I flattened the end of ours with that other essential bit of kit, our sledge hammer.

[ditchcrawler]

28 minutes ago, Neil TNC said:

I now see ready made ones were available! I flattened the end of ours with that other essential bit of kit, our sledge hammer.

Not the hydraulic kit

[haza]

pudlock also called spade end , they should put a thick skin on there list as i  am sure it will come in very handy .with life on the cut 

[Neil TNC]

1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:

Not the hydraulic kit

Funny you should say that, I have not carried the Porto-Power kit for years, but will be bringing it up. Earnest has a recent new plummer block top rudder bearing and shaft. Even though I have kept the shaft to inner bearing cup interface oiled, and the allen key grub screws free, the bloody thing is stuck. I always like to keep this free, so easy to drop the rudder in emergency. The hydraulic wedgy will soon shift it! As for the scaffold pole, we used it twice last year on the swing bridges on the Leeds and Liverpool. Others recommend a watering can as essential kit. If a bridge is stuck, due to expansion in the heat (remember those days?!), all you have to do is cool the tie rods, which contract and lift the bridge deck ends.