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Posted
1 minute ago, Alan de Enfield said:

I think you are getting confused with Pineapples :-

Oh yeah, you could be right, push pineapple, shake a tree. Anyway, I think it was beer he was shaking.No wonder he kept making up new words. I do that when I'm pissed too.

Posted
1 hour ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Pretty sure that Archie bloke said "Give me a fulcrum....."

Imagine what he could have moved with  a flipflop winch.

 

 

Posted
25 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

Imagine what he could have moved with  a flipflop winch.

 

 

 

 

Jeez, skip foward to 12 minutes before anything happens! 

 

 

 

Posted
1 hour ago, Tumshie said:

Pretty sure that even with a fulcrum he would still need a place to stand. 

 

The essence of a fulcrum is that it is fixed!

 

Ok I looked up the quote. He was all like....

 

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

 

There. Sorted!

 

 

 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

 

Jeez, skip foward to 12 minutes before anything happens! 

 

Yes, sorry about that, it wasn't the best youtube vid to pick.........

Posted
1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

The essence of a fulcrum is that it is fixed!

Yeah but how's he gonna push the lever if he's not stood next to it. ?

 

40 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

Imagine what he could have moved with  a flipflop winch.

  

Posted
4 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

Yeah but how's he gonna push the lever if he's not stood next to it. ?

 

  

Yep, that is where I knicked the idea from.....a  much better vid.

Posted

 

Weird to go out there with a van and lots of rope, and a load of nice straight poles, but not a £20 tirfor from Screwfix!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted
2 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Weird to go out there with a van and lots of rope, and a load of nice straight poles, but not a £20 tirfor from Screwfix!

They're in a forest so that might explain the poles, no?

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Posted
1 minute ago, Tumshie said:

They're in a forest so that might explain the poles, no?

Plus they would need to make sure their van got stuck 3m away from an anchor point:)

Posted
1 minute ago, Tumshie said:

They're in a forest so that might explain the poles, no?

 

Yeahbut the chainsaw they need to get the poles out of the middle of the trees costs more than the tirfor!

 

And never mind all the safety gear!

 

 

Posted
1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Yeahbut the chainsaw they need to get the poles out of the middle of the trees costs more than the tirfor!

 

And never mind all the safety gear!

 

 

With out wanting to be unkind to the gentlemen in the film I don't think either screw fix of safety gear are that common in their working environment. 

 

Posted
Just now, Tumshie said:

With out wanting to be unkind to the gentlemen in the film I don't think either screw fix of safety gear are that common in their working environment. 

 

 

 

Don't be daft, there are branches of Screwfix EVERYWHERE!!!! 

 

:giggles:

 

Posted
23 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

Yep, that is where I knicked the idea from.....a  much better vid.

Can you imagine doing that in the canal pulling the boat through a bridge hole

Posted
12 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Can you imagine doing that in the canal pulling the boat through a bridge hole

 

 

So that's why there are so many Screwfix branches!!

 

 

 

Posted (edited)
16 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Can you imagine doing that in the canal pulling the boat through a bridge hole

Nope. Though I did use the Spanish windlass technique once when we got stuck on a submerged wall on the R.Nene. It worked a treat, and got the boat off where other methods had failed. Unfortunately, when the tension came off, the lever rapidly unwound hitting me in the face?.

 

ETA. No, that can't be right.If the tension had come off, it wouldn't have hit me. Maybe I let go of it.Hey, I can't remember, I had concussion at the time.

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Posted
37 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

Unfortunately, when the tension came off, the lever rapidly unwound hitting me in the face?.

 

 

I too have been walloped good and hard when losing my grip on the maureen pin I was using to wind up a spanish windlass....

 

Not in the face though ?

Posted
2 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

 

I too have been walloped good and hard when losing my grip on the maureen pin I was using to wind up a spanish windlass....

 

Not in the face though ?

It was a mooring pin as it happens, One of those hard ones made out of steel. Don't worry though, I would never admit to doing something so stupid on an internet forum.

Posted
8 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

It was a mooring pin as it happens, One of those hard ones made out of steel. Don't worry though, I would never admit to doing something so stupid on an internet forum.

 

No, nor would I.

 

Don't worry, no-one is reading....

 

 

(We drove them all away, pages ago!) 

 

 

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Posted
54 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

Nope. Though I did use the Spanish windlass technique once when we got stuck on a submerged wall on the R.Nene. 

I often see people using them on mooring lines now to moor tight against the bank

Posted
6 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

I often see people using them on mooring lines now to moor tight against the bank

 

Presumably on their centrelines!!

 

I've used the spanish windlass to open the gate on a lock that simply refused to make a level....

 

 

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