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Several giraffe and some camels looking at me by the side of the canal near Hunton Bridge as I was going past. They were from a circus that was setting up but I didn't realise that at first and thought I'd gone through some sort of vortex into another world.

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Do many people paddle in the Rochdale canal?

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Just now, Athy said:

What did it do? presumably something to do with the slag heaps at coal mines.

Not sure. I don’t fancy Googling it. 

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5 minutes ago, Athy said:

What did it do? presumably something to do with the slag heaps at coal mines.

Ina steel making furnace the slag (unwanted bits of molten rock & rubbish) being lighter than the molten metal, float on top of the molten metal, the 'steel' is 'tapped' (drained off) at the bottom of the furnace but to avoid the contamination of the steel by the 'rubbish', that is first drained off by 'tapping' the side of the furnace at the level of the slag/steel interface and it then runs out of the 'slag-hole'.

 

We learned that at school.

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Since you didn't have the energy, I had a look. It's a hole in a blast furnace through which slag is removed, presumably running out as if through a tap, hence the "tapping" epithet.

EDIT: AdE just beat me to it, and with a more lucid answer.

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34 minutes ago, Athy said:

Since you didn't have the energy, I had a look. It's a hole in a blast furnace through which slag is removed, presumably running out as if through a tap, hence the "tapping" epithet.

EDIT: AdE just beat me to it, and with a more lucid answer.

I’ve plenty of energy, but wondered if it might lead me to an obscure fetish website!

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5 minutes ago, Athy said:

I didn't find that one.

Hot damn.

I just tried, and there are certainly some nice pictures of pretty girls (and some unpleasant pictures of their anatomy).

 

AND, just for 'equality', one about boys.

 

Image result for slag hole

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On 01/06/2018 at 15:41, Neil2 said:

I haven't got a picture of this for obvious reasons, but a few years ago we were coming down the K&A towards Reading and passed a moored boat with a couple sat in the front well, stark naked.  

 

Oh, and I saw a dredger on the Lancaster canal a few weeks ago.

 

 

Now i can believe the couple BUT a dredger !

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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Ina steel making furnace the slag (unwanted bits of molten rock & rubbish) being lighter than the molten metal, float on top of the molten metal, the 'steel' is 'tapped' (drained off) at the bottom of the furnace but to avoid the contamination of the steel by the 'rubbish', that is first drained off by 'tapping' the side of the furnace at the level of the slag/steel interface and it then runs out of the 'slag-hole'.

 

We learned that at school.

Ah yes, every Sunday night in winter I use to love passing the Clydebridge steelworks, the brilliance of red hot molten metals as they tapped the furnaces, them were the days.

Its housing nowadays, we all live in boxes nowadays. 

See "2000, when the iron was hot"

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clydebridge/Working Experiences.html#Crombie

 

Very few steelworkers of that time are still alive, they worked hard and died early. 

 

1982 - Jim Neill, The Fires are Dead

The fires are dead, the steel is cold
young men of today will soon be old
if not in years, then in thought and deeds
as Clydebridge dies beneath rust and weeds.

Gone are the days of fire and spark
when molten steel lit up the dark.
And in the day to black the sky
smoking chimneys reached on high

Those days are gone when our fathers sweat
soaked their backs, and glistened wet
feeding scrap and iron, the furnace meal
to bring the charge to liquid steel.

When ingots bathed in the fiery maw
of soaking pits, that burned them raw
then mangled in the mills great grabs
to spew them out a glowing slabs.

No more plates from Clydebridge mill
in brooding silence, all is still
the heart has stopped, no pulse you feel.
All dead.....the Clydebridge ''Men of Steel.''

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1 minute ago, LadyG said:

Ah yes, every Sunday night in winter I use to love passing the steelworks, the brilliance of red hot steels as they tapped the furnaces, them were the days.

Its housing nowadays, we all live in boxes nowadays. 

But not all !!

 

Driving up the A74/M74 South of Glasgow - Ravenscraig, (it used to be a customer during the 80's and I saw the start of the decline following the 1980 'Steel Strike')

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4 minutes ago, larryjc said:

Or there's this one.  Pickled young girl anyone????

 

I've heard that there's a choice of them on the streets of many towns after closing time.

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3 minutes ago, Athy said:

I've heard that there's a choice of them on the streets of many towns after closing time.

 

Had to smile at this advert for a set of marine electronics (expensive Radar, GPS, depth finders, etc etc)

 

After listing all of the equipment and its details the final couple of lines of the advert were :

 

"The complete system came off a working boat.
All equipment in good working condition when removed from the boat.
"Boat ran aground .No fault of the instruments, the acting skipper was pissed and fell asleep".

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