Salter's lode, a long night ?

[bargiepat]

Well here is the Fox boat and the dredger thing sitting on the bank.

 

Wow that is a brilliant image..................

I just wonder how they managed to end up right on the TOP of the sandbank ?

 

Regards,

Patrick.

[ditchcrawler]

Wow that is a brilliant image..................

I just wonder how they managed to end up right on the TOP of the sandbank ?

 

Regards,

Patrick.

So did I, it was only a 22 foot tide this morning

[nbfiresprite]

Well here is the Fox boat and the dredger thing sitting on the bank.

 

That explains why it was a bit frosty in the Marina Office today when paying the moorings fees. This is the second time that Sliver Fox has come a chopper in the same spot. It's due out again tomorrow.

 

Firesprite

Edited August 16, 2012 by nbfiresprite

[ditchcrawler]

That explains why it was a bit frosty in the Marina Office today when paying the moorings fees. This is the second time that Sliver Fox has come a chopper in the same spot. It's due out again tomorrow.

 

Firesprite

 

Maybe they should give them a drawing showing them the route they should follow.

 

Its fine Paul saying go up the New Bedford and cross very close to the sluices, if you don't have a clue are because you have never seen it before, or if like when we came in, the lock keeper who will give you a signal will be one of the 8 people standing in a bunch at the mouth of the lock.

[the grinch]

so are they just pushing it around? if so it no wonder that it silts so quickly!

[Guest User]

so are they just pushing it around? if so it no wonder that it silts so quickly!

 

Not quite, the pusher is now moving the remaining silt near to the bank and there's a long-arm digger that's lifting it out onto the bank in the area in front of the pick-up truck in the photo.

 

The Fox boat got away safely on the incoming tide this evening

Edited August 16, 2012 by Graham!

[ditchcrawler]

Not quite, the pusher is now moving the remaining silt near to the bank and there's a long-arm digger that's lifting it out onto the bank in the area in front of the pick-up truck in the photo.

 

The Fox boat got away safely on the incoming tide this evening

Which way did he go, back to Salters or up through Denver?

[Guest User]

Which way did he go, back to Salters or up through Denver?

Back down to Salters ... I was in the Jenyn Arms by then and no boats came up through.

[gazza]

We are sitting at Salters at the moment and the chap here has seen it in use on the ML and didn't rate it much.

They have just locked a 70footer out and he is sitting waiting for the tide to come in outside the gate.

 

looking at the sluice complex, middle picture, one cant help but think what a shame the 1920's Big Eye sluice (to the extreme right of the picture) is no longer in use, would have made the passage a wee bit easier.

 

does anyone know if the little eyes have been holding up ok after having loads of dosh spent on the aeration desiltting device??

 

 

bugger, didnt manage to get your post with your pictures in, oh well!

 

http://www.ousewashes.info/sluices/denver-sluice.htm link with info and pics to describe what i was wittering on about...

Edited August 17, 2012 by gazza

[MoominPapa]

looking at the sluice complex, middle picture, one cant help but think what a shame the 1920's Big Eye sluice (to the extreme right of the picture) is no longer in use, would have made the passage a wee bit easier.

 

does anyone know if the little eyes have been holding up ok after having loads of dosh spent on the aeration desiltting device??

 

 

bugger, didnt manage to get your post with your pictures in, oh well!

 

http://www.ousewashes.info/sluices/denver-sluice.htm link with info and pics to describe what i was wittering on about...

Chatting with the lock keeper, he said the big sluice is not used because it's faulty - if the gate was raised, there's not guarantee that it could be lowered again in time. It's just a sluice rather than a pound lock, isn't it? You'd need either level water or an exagerated sense of adventure to take a boat through

 

Apparently the silt-aerators are a great success. (There are a load of galvanised iron pipes than end in front of the sluice gates: sending compressed air down them breaks up the silt and allows the V-doors to open.)

 

MP.

[Manxcat]

Any info on how the dredging went?

Is the sand/silt bar cleared away yet?

[Albion]

Any info on how the dredging went?

Is the sand/silt bar cleared away yet?

It wasn't removed when we went through on a friend's boat on Sunday. You head up from Salter's keeping to the right until you're almost parallel (after the turn) with the face of the sluice structure and then a sharp left when the Denver lockie raises his arm and then a sharp right into the lock.

Roger

Edited August 23, 2012 by Albion

[ditchcrawler]

Any info on how the dredging went?

Is the sand/silt bar cleared away yet?

It very slow and dependant on water depth, to deep and they can't reach the bottom, to low and the boat won't float over it. The are using the little boat like a floating dragline pulling the sand tho in front of the digger who inturn scoops it out onto the bank. I would estimate that the edge of the bank is about 60 ft. From the mouth of the lock.

[ditchcrawler]

Maybe they should give them a drawing showing them the route they should follow.

 

Its fine Paul saying go up the New Bedford and cross very close to the sluices, if you don't have a clue are because you have never seen it before, or if like when we came in, the lock keeper who will give you a signal will be one of the 8 people standing in a bunch at the mouth of the lock.

I spoke to a hire on a Fox boat who was waiting to cross back to Denver and they said that Fox's told them nothing about what to expect at Denver.

[Albion]

I spoke to a hire on a Fox boat who was waiting to cross back to Denver and they said that Fox's told them nothing about what to expect at Denver.

When we were there last Sunday Fox's had sent some staff to steer the boats across, for the hirers on board, from Denver to Salters because of the silt bank (and one of the bosses/family I think? was there also standing with us at Salter's watching the operation and ready to take the staff back to base by car). Perhaps they were going to do the same for the Salter's to Denver (although you haven't got the same flow to contend with as you have getting the boat round to nose into Salter's of course).

Roger

Edited August 24, 2012 by Albion