A 70ft crane boat was used to assist the removal of pump equipment at Beeston Iron Lock on Saturday. Does anybody known the identity of this craft, it looks like a former BW boat

 

 

31 minutes ago, Heartland said:

A 70ft crane boat was used to assist the removal of pump equipment at Beeston Iron Lock on Saturday. Does anybody known the identity of this craft, it looks like a former BW boat

 

 

This boat?


From Here:70ft Crane Boat for Lock Gate Lifting | The Rothen Group

Edited March 29Mar 29 by Ray T

Presumably the River Class butty Aye.

https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/aye

Or perhaps Wey.

https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/wey

 

2 hours ago, David Mack said:

Presumably the River Class butty Aye.

https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/aye

Or perhaps Wey.

https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/wey

 

 

One would assume so, but as Heartland has not provided a picture of or any other information about the particular boat in question we can only guess!

Rothen's have a very large number of maintenance boats, mainly more modern, but several of them "historics".

Wey (edit too add - probaably not Wey, but Aye) is a great piece of kit/toy

 

Always fancied a boat with a Hiab. Not sure what for exactly - for fun I suppose. 

Edited March 30Mar 30 by Speedwheel
Correct boat

12 hours ago, David Mack said:

Presumably the River Class butty Aye.

https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/aye

Or perhaps Wey.

https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/wey

 

We went through the lock just after it opened on Friday afternoon and i noticed the name was "Aye".

13 hours ago, Speedwheel said:

Wey is a great piece of kit/toy

 

Always fancied a boat with a Hiab. Not sure what for exactly - for fun I suppose. 

 

Would certainly make mooring wherever you like quick and easy. Just drop the bucket onto the canal bed!

15 hours ago, Speedwheel said:

Always fancied a boat with a Hiab. Not sure what for exactly - for fun I suppose. 

Back in my WRGie days we always joked about going on a holiday on the WRG dredger, so we could get ourselves through the lesser used parts of the BCN.  But the dredger project never got beyond a diesel engine, an excavator arm and a few other bits set aside in a corner of the workshop at Droitwich.

The image of the boat was uploaded on the Kieren & Lottie U Tube which makes it difficult to reproduce, but is identical to the images show on the Rothen website

It looks like a River Class 

 

And David Mack has included the correct image above so which one was it? Any ideas

 

 

13 minutes ago, Heartland said:

The image of the boat was uploaded on the Kieren & Lottie U Tube which makes it difficult to reproduce, but is identical to the images show on the Rothen website

It looks like a River Class 

 

And David Mack has included the correct image above so which one was it? Any ideas

 

 

 

Thanks

 

The Ayes have it as they say

 

But because of copy write concerns it is unable to reproduce some images now on this site.

 

Sad

 

 

11 hours ago, cuthound said:

 

Would certainly make mooring wherever you like quick and easy. Just drop the bucket onto the canal bed!

 

A few years ago I did seriously investigate spud legs as an option. Great for a workboat, but surprisingly impractical for a pleasure boat. 

Edited March 30Mar 30 by Speedwheel

22 hours ago, Speedwheel said:

Wey (edit too add - probaably not Wey, but Aye) is a great piece of kit/toy

 

Always fancied a boat with a Hiab. Not sure what for exactly - for fun I suppose. 

Back in the 80s I recall the Fuller twins at Stone fitted Hiab style hydraulic arms to their narrow boats.
Martin's boat The Anne
Roger's boat The Elstree

I believe this was part of their company "Five Towns Carrying" 
They had constructed a form of steel railing along both boats' gunnels in order to manoeuvre the contraptions up and down the length of the holds.

If I remember correctly (which I rarely do these days) stability was an interesting experience to be enjoyed by onlookers and operator alike.

Hopefully on it's way back to Beeston now!

9 minutes ago, junior said:

Hopefully on it's way back to Beeston now!

two men and a toe jack