What is a Wigwag and why does it take 3 months to install one?

[Tim Lewis]

[Jonny P]

A wig-wag is the traffic signal with the soild amber warning light and then alternate flashing red lights used to denote a location where you must stop because to pass puts you in immediate peril, railway level crossings being the most common usage, but also moving bridges and fire station exits.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

The CWDF challenge for today is to use the word wigwag at some point in a conversation. 

 

So why is the canal closed? Wedges are only accessible when the bridge is swung away from the canal, so need a road closure, not a canal one. The wigwags and barriers don't affect the canal and could be worked on with appropriate road restrictions, or closure as required.

[Chris Lowe]

44 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

The CWDF challenge for today is to use the word wigwag at some point in a conversation. 

Also use a soiled amber light as captain Pegg has mentioned.

 

[nicknorman]

10 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

A wig-wag is the traffic signal with the soild amber warning light and then alternate flashing red lights used to denote a location where you must stop because to pass puts you in immediate peril, railway level crossings being the most common usage, but also moving bridges and fire station exits.

I think more generally it’s a pair of lights that flash alternately. If they could speak one would be saying “wig” and the other “wag”. You get amber ones at taxiway holding points at airports. You don’t pass the wig wags to enter the runway when they are wigwagging.

 

Edited May 26, 2023 by nicknorman

[Mike Tee]

must be a complicated wigwag etc  if its going to take two and a half months to fix

[DaveP]

Maybe someone's mistaken it for a chinwag?

 

[Tracy D'arth]

2 hours ago, buccaneer66 said:

Also use a soiled amber light as captain Pegg has mentioned.

 

Bird lime on the amber lamp?

[alan_fincher]

And as an aside, just to point out that CRT seem to find it near impossible to get stoppage notices correct....

 

The nearest official winding hole North of the Winkwell swing bridge is NOT at Cow Roast.  It is at Berkhamsted (by the railway station entrance).  A saving of 7 locks over going all the way to the summit.

Edited May 26, 2023 by alan_fincher

[David Mack]

Although if Winkwell swing bridge is closed and you are heading south, it might make more sense to turn round at Cowroast, rather than descending 7 locks, only to have to go back up them again.

[cuthound]

16 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

A wig-wag is the traffic signal with the soild amber warning light and then alternate flashing red lights used to denote a location where you must stop because to pass puts you in immediate peril, railway level crossings being the most common usage, but also moving bridges and fire station exits.

 

And there was me thinking it must be some kind of tepee...

[matty40s]

Just now, cuthound said:

 

And there was me thinking it must be some kind of tepee...

It is, it's where the footballers wives stay when glamping 

[magnetman]

A wigwag is also a speed and direction controller for an electric motor. 

 

 

Basically a joystick. 

example 

 

https://www.thunderstruck-ev.com/wigwag-type-throttle.html

[stablemabel]

Is it someone who wears a hairpiece at a really jaunty angle

[MtB]

5 hours ago, cuthound said:

 

And there was me thinking it must be some kind of tepee...

 

No, you must be thinking of a Wigram.

[BEngo]

6 hours ago, cuthound said:

 

And there was me thinking it must be some kind of tepee...

They are for cleaning the gaps between your teeth.

N

[magnetman]

There was an Indian bloke who was addicted to theine and lived in a hollowed out area of ground under a tent. 

 

One day they found him drowned in his tea pee.

 

 

[ditchcrawler]

I suppose they could always just close the road and leave the canal open while they do most of the work

[matty40s]

2 hours ago, MtB said:

 

No, you must be thinking of a Wigram.

No, that's just for black Princes.

[Victor Vectis]

On 25/05/2023 at 22:59, Captain Pegg said:

A wig-wag is the traffic signal with the soild amber warning light and then alternate flashing red lights used to denote a location where you must stop because to pass puts you in immediate peril, railway level crossings being the most common usage, but also moving bridges and fire station exits.

Perhaps some of the drivers that use Shirley drawbridge should be told that.

We've caught vehicles trying to jump the lights and ending up on the rising bridge three times!

 

One was a Sky TV van. Another driver shouted at me that it was my fault as "I coud see him coming"

[Tim Lewis]

On 26/05/2023 at 23:16, ditchcrawler said:

I suppose they could always just close the road and leave the canal open while they do most of the work

Today’s stoppage had done both as the bridge failed half open/closed!

Edited May 28, 2023 by Tim Lewis

[ditchcrawler]

1 hour ago, Tim Lewis said:

Today’s stoppage had done both as the bridge failed half open/closed!

That is nether use to man nor beast