pontcysyllte aqueduct

[Mac of Cygnet]

Maybe you'll find this one less frustrating:

 

Very good. Kept me watching for 15 seconds!

[Rod Bender]

MY most relaxing passage across the Pontcysylite aqueduct was cruising North towards Trevor. When I reached the narrow trough the fog was so dense I stepped on to the towpath, walked forward listening for an oncoming boat - no sounds - stepped back on-board and cruised across oblivious to the height because I couldn't even see my chimney 40 feet ahead.

[larryjc]

http://vid228.photobucket.com/albums/ee310/larryjc/DSCN0287_zpslq6ga294.mp4

 

SWMBO wouldn't even come out of the hatch.

Edited February 8, 2017 by larryjc

[BargeeSpud]

 

 

Best not to watch this video then...

 

 

I couldn't even glance at the opening shot of that vid without my legs going all trembly! Thanks for that Mike, B******D!!

 

 

 

Well you could have walked back along the road instead, then you could have got one of those photos looking up at the aqueduct from below.

 

Ah, but I had no idea what I was letting myself in for because I wanted to experience it from a walker's point of view. Little did I realise the profound effect it would have on me. But I'm glad it wasn't the Pontcysyllte where I completely lost it & that it was the Zip World experience that totally changed my life.

Edited February 8, 2017 by BargeeSpud

[canaljunky]

Goliath - you won't like this video either - some film of us crossing Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on holiday last September.

 

[Dave_P]

and the Avon aqueduct in Scotland on the Glasgow and Edinburgh Union canal is the second longest in the UK at 810 feet with 11 arches.

 

Haggis

Would Chirk be third?

 

Wouldn't be allowed in the U.K., I'm sure.

I showed that clip to my old H&S lecturer and he confirmed it wouldn't be allowed here.

[Victor Vectis]

 

 

Best not to watch this video then...

 

I never thought twice about working half a mile underneath Yorkshire and 4 miles out from pit bottom.

 

But that video gives me the willies!

[Tim Lewis]

How about this for your walk to work:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-38914607

 

Tim

[tree monkey]

I never thought twice about working half a mile underneath Yorkshire and 4 miles out from pit bottom.

 

But that video gives me the willies!

And I would do that climb (with appropriate harness and strops ) but no way would I go down a half mile deep hole and wander about hacking coal out of the ground

[stegra]

When I lived in Northumberland lots of former miners would talk about working under the sea from collieries like Blyth, Newbiggin and Ellington. There was a measured mile for shipping off the coast at Newbiggin so the ships would be at full power. They could be heard regularly when the mining machinery wasn't too loud. The area marked No.2 on this map shows the extent of the undersea coalfield:

 

[Victor Vectis]

I think it was Lynemouth that held the record for distance from pit bottom.

 

IIRC there was a heading 7¹/₂ miles out from pit bottom and that would make it 7 miles out under the North Sea.

 

Lynemouth was a combined mine with Ellington and Ellington was one of the two mines where I saw horses at work underground. This would be back in 1976 and they had 40 or thereabouts at work there. I remember seeing a cat in the underground stables too.

 

The other was Tower Colliery in Wales. Six at work there in 1981.