Those Bollards

[Mark Beach]

More from the Dreamcatcher cruise...

 

How about Idesign a standard notice (with BW logo) which people can laminate themselves and we all carry a stock with us to affix to all of theose silly bollards on the side of locks saying "TRIP HAZZARD"

 

Happy to do the desing work!

 

Mark

[LoneWolf]

More from the Dreamcatcher cruise...

 

How about Idesign a standard notice (with BW logo) which people can laminate themselves and we all carry a stock with us to affix to all of theose silly bollards on the side of locks saying "TRIP HAZZARD"

 

Happy to do the desing work!

 

Mark

 

 

 

How about one saying "Please do not park your wheelchair over this bollard while your friend takes a picture of you with that nice boat coming into the lock behind you"

[David Schweizer]

More from the Dreamcatcher cruise...

 

How about Idesign a standard notice (with BW logo) which people can laminate themselves and we all carry a stock with us to affix to all of theose silly bollards on the side of locks saying "TRIP HAZZARD"

 

Happy to do the desing work!

 

Mark

 

I actually fornd a use for them on our last trip, they are handy for sitting on while you are waiting for the lock to fill. A seat would have been better though.

[sueb]

I saw a boat use them today for the first time. We were following Dane and Clara, both wooden working boats. The butty found the posts very useful so maybe we can blame the historic boating association for them.

Sue

[alan_fincher]

............................so maybe we can blame the historic boating association for them.

I really, really, very much doubt it.

 

What a fiasco these things have become, having seen them a year ago, and again now on some canals....

 

At Lapworth, for example....

 

1) The ones they failed to put on ther initial application were never added.

2) Some have undergone the "rounding off" additional work, (and expense), others have not.

3) This is random - at some locks one or two have been rounded, the others left square.

4) The timber used in some cases is already split top to bottom.

5) Some can be rocked in the ground.

 

A truly shambolic performance by BW that they seem intent on compounding.

[sueb]

They are putting them in at Stourport. At the top lock there is access one side only, so they are in the only safe walking area. The choice to walk now is either the coping stones or the grass.

Sue

[DHutch]

There was talk of geting some BW shower signs made up for Hawksbury Jn where the shower block had a notable absent of actaul showers. Just a rather small loo and lots of unmarked doors to knowwhere.

- In jest, these fabracated shower signs, could then be affixed to not only the unmarked doors, but also the police box, road signs, various doors of the greyhound, the bridges, lock beams, walls, trees, the towpath. Etc.

 

 

Daniel

[Hairy-Neil]

The butty found the posts very useful so maybe we can blame the historic boating association for them.

Sue

 

They would be much more use to the butty if installed on the towpath side of the lock......

 

 

Coming down Northgate locks at Chester last weekend I found BW have recently installed some additional bolladrs (at least they are cast iron ones )there. One of them is only 3 foot from an existing historic, original cast iron item.

[Tiny]

I saw a boat use them today for the first time. We were following Dane and Clara, both wooden working boats. The butty found the posts very useful so maybe we can blame the historic boating association for them.

Sue

 

From observation be warned - any use of these things could cause them to fall apart. They do not seem to be well made and some (untreated) are cracking from the top down already. I wonder when BW will declare them a potential hazard and ban their use.

Edited August 16, 2009 by Tiny