The Daniel Adamson on the Weaver

[mykaskin]

Hi Folks,

 

A video of yesterdays fun and games getting the Danny up a rather shallow bit of the Weaver:

 

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

Edited October 1, 2016 by mykaskin

[Dalesman]

Hi Folks,

 

A video of yesterdays fun and games getting the Danny up a rather shallow bit of the Weaver:

 

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

Excellent video shame they ran out of water though! Thanks for posting

Edited October 1, 2016 by Dalesman

[Dalesman]

[Nightwatch]

Lovely graceful vessel.

 

 

And Martin on Halsall gets a look in.

[churchward]

Great looking boat and a huge improvement on the condition before restoration. What a super outcome for this lovely boat.

 

Nice video too good to see it under way.

[Cheshire cat]

You'd have thought they'd have bought some coal from Martin.

 

It just shows, there's little chance of anything large getting up to Northwich.

[Jim Riley]

I want a ride! Shame about the ding to the paintwork, starboard stern gunnel. Has Tim West had a go?

[Scholar Gypsy]

Very nice - going through the lock with fenders down though ....

[Tony Brooks]

I just hope the colour of the water exiting from what I take to be the condenser outlet when in the shallows was a trick of the light, otherwise I dread to think how much mud is inside it now.

[steamcompound]

Tony makes a good point. The intakes are on the turn of the bilge and quite a distance above the keel. A good view of the shallow vee shape of the hull in dry dock can be seen in Eddie Doig's video www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbrhwXwipqs. Attached is a view of one of the strum boxes and associated valves which are the water intakes for the circulating pumps that feed the condensers. Each engine has a condenser cast as part of the back columns. Note the new concrete forming a pad around the box. A modification was made to original design to allow the boxes to be back flushed to clear material which has been sucked onto the filter bars

 

Each side of the vessel has a discharge for a condenser outlet with the starboard having an extra discharge for the general service pump which is kept running all the time when is steam. By closing one valve on the GS pump the discharge can be turned off and diverted via another valve to the fire hoses.

[zenataomm]

Spiffing!

 

Did I see n.b. Elizabeth in the background?

[Pie Eater]

Great video

 

Steve

[bigcol]

Yep thanks for the video

 

Brill

[Dalesman]

Very nice - going through the lock with fenders down though ....

They always have their fenders down..it's a working tug not a floating gin palace