Michelin man

[noddyboater]

It's really bad luck to get a tyre round the prop isn't it. Two at the same time and you'd think you were having a pretty bad day. 

But three? 

[Tracy D'arth]

Did you find the rest of the Reliant Robin?

[magnetman]

A good 'guess the location' picture.

 

I recognise the ash tree.

[Jon57]

10 minutes ago, noddyboater said:

It's really bad luck to get a tyre round the prop isn't it. Two at the same time and you'd think you were having a pretty bad day. 

But three? 

Can we get the mods to remove this tread please.🤭😱

Edited July 14, 2023 by Jon57
Spell

[noddyboater]

29 minutes ago, magnetman said:

A good 'guess the location' picture.

 

I recognise the ash tree.

Between two lots of abandoned moorings, and you can guess what they all used as fenders!

[Hudds Lad]

26 minutes ago, Jon57 said:

Can we get the mods to remove this tread please.🤭😱

If you’re tyred of it they’d be doing you a wheel favour  

[Bacchus]

32 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

If you’re tyred of it they’d be doing you a wheel favour  

 

It is an old story that goes round every now and again

[ditchcrawler]

I'm glad you got them because if that is where I think it is I will be going that way next week and I don't want them

[MtB]

The whole issue is being roundly over-inflated. 

 

That's my steer on it anyway. 

[ditchcrawler]

There is no need to rub er it in is there

[noddyboater]

28 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

I'm glad you got them because if that is where I think it is I will be going that way next week and I don't want them

There's plenty more where they came from!

But 3 on one prop at once must be some kind of record. 

[PeterF]

Plenty of traction in this thread yet.

 

Spotted loads of tyres precariously hanging on old bits of rope on the abandoned moorings at Woodend Lock on the T&M when we moored there recently, all just waiting for an avid collector. Thinking about it, with the footpath upgrade work there are a lot of gravel laden tugs and hoppers moving about creating extra wash to loosen the tyres.

Edited July 14, 2023 by PeterF

[Ianws]

I'm going to keep a low profile on this one. 

[noddyboater]

13 minutes ago, PeterF said:

Plenty of traction in this thread yet.

 

Spotted loads of tyres precariously hanging on old bits of rope on the abandoned moorings at Woodend Lock on the T&M when we moored there recently, all just waiting for an avid collector. Thinking about it, with the footpath upgrade work there are a lot of gravel laden tugs and hoppers moving about creating extra wash to loosen the tyres.

Woodend one side, King's Bromley Wharf the other. They both must have had shares in a tyre recycling company. 

[Chris Lowe]

2 hours ago, Jon57 said:

Can we get the mods to remove this tread please.🤭😱

No because then they would be remods

[Ianws]

4 hours ago, noddyboater said:

It's really bad luck to get a tyre round the prop isn't it. Two at the same time and you'd think you were having a pretty bad day. 

But three? 

After all the jokes, how badly were they fixed around your prop, and how difficult to remove. One cut across the one tyre looks pretty decent compared to some tales on here dealing with very difficult single tyres on props. 

[noddyboater]

28 minutes ago, Ianws said:

After all the jokes, how badly were they fixed around your prop, and how difficult to remove. One cut across the one tyre looks pretty decent compared to some tales on here dealing with very difficult single tyres on props. 

The first two gave up pretty easily,  pulling with the shaft while turning the prop backwards on the coupling. Some hosepipe came out with them,  presumably they were tied together. 

The third one was a different matter. Unfortunately due to health and safety issues we couldn't remove it, but if we had it would have included the use of a mini digger on the towpath, lifting straps, various saws,  a borrowed cordless grinder and my colleague taking a refreshing dip.

[Stroudwater1]

7 hours ago, noddyboater said:

Woodend one side, King's Bromley Wharf the other. They both must have had shares in a tyre recycling company. 

IIRC there used to be a tyre “disposal plant” to the left of the old top lock of Curdworth going down. There were very large numbers of tyres “stacked up” in the open. Every now and again a number were burnt by the depot. Just had to hope you weren’t travelling down on that day and the wind wasn’t blowing across the canal. It wasn’t uncommon to fish some out from the canal too. It’s possible it was the top lock of Minworth as I was pretty young. 

However stubble burning probably was worse further down the flight TBH. That smoke was acrid and took ages to get rid of especially if you happened to be passing a field with stubble running the same way as the canal run. TBF stubble fires were usually well controlled surprisingly. 
 

I wonder if younger members think I’m on about Turkish barbers treatment of beards 🤣