Frozen canal Humor

[Kinver Canopies]

Bit of a giggle from the guys who run Kinvers little ‘not info’ site http://kinver.info/ice-breaker-demanded-kinver-canal-freezes-bit/

 

[Horace42]

1st March ????............   a month early it could be 

[X Alan W]

I f the guy wants to move why doesn't he break the ice himself if it's not to thick? I suppose the Pc is a worry on causing damage to moored boats

[StephenA]

6 hours ago, X Alan W said:

I f the guy wants to move why doesn't he break the ice himself if it's not to thick? I suppose the Pc is a worry on causing damage to moored boats

You are aware its satire?...

[alan_fincher]

You can buy my ice breaker for considerably less than the £430,000 quoted in that article.....

If you have the cash, I might even sell it for half that figure.
 

 

[Cheshire cat]

She seems to be stuck! That looks like tremendous fun.

[TheBiscuits]

1 hour ago, alan_fincher said:

You can buy my ice breaker for considerably less than the £430,000 quoted in that article.....

If you have the cash, I might even sell it for half that figure.
 

The £430 or the £000 ?

I'm in either way!  Will you split the difference and call it £215?

[X Alan W]

15 hours ago, StephenA said:

You are aware its satire?...

I'm aware of that but the adage "many a true word is spoken in jest springs to mind"

[Bod]

Put the "attachment" back on, and it's worth double!

 

Bod

[Kinver Canopies]

21 hours ago, Bod said:

Put the "attachment" back on, and it's worth double!

 

Bod

Here is the content from the link if thats's what you wanted.

 

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Ice Breaker Demanded For Kinver As Canal Freezes A Bit

Posted on 12th December 2017 by koladmin • 0 Comments

As temperatures plummeted last night, Kinver’s canals took the brunt of the cold as they froze over, making it a bit harder for boats to move. And owners aren’t happy.

Dave Guthridge, a canal user, contacted Kinver.info to vent his anger.

“It’s absolutely outrageous. There are gritters for the roads and grit bins in streets, but we’ve had ice now for the second time in as many decades, and it makes it harder to move my boat. Car drivers yet again get preferential treatment.”

A consortium of boat users has teamed up to demand South Staffordshire Council provide an ice breaker boat for such situations.

Our climate reporter, Mike Littisore, contacted South Stafforshire Council to ask their opinion. A representative said, “Unfortunately it’s unlikely to ever happen. We had our finance team run through the costs and benefits, and we found the cheapest ice breaker class boat would cost about £430,000. The current cost to the economy of ice on the canal is somewhere in the region of zero pounds, making it economically unviable.”

We put these comments to Dave, and he said “That’s typical of the short-sighted attitude of pencil pushing office workers who don’t see the real trauma for us on the water ways. We pay our taxes, too, we need to be looked after just like everyone else. But more so.”

South Stafforshire council refused to take any more calls on the matter.

 

[Bod]

Alan's boat Sickle, has a sister boat called Tyco(?) which still has it's original ice breaking bow attachment fitted.  

Sicke's was removed many years ago, but would have been useful recently.

 

Bod

[TheBiscuits]

6 minutes ago, Bod said:

Alan's boat Sickle, has a sister boat called Tyco(?) which still has it's original ice breaking bow attachment fitted.  

Sicke's was removed many years ago, but would have been useful recently.