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Hullo everyone.

 

Longtime hirer and latterly shareowner in a couple of syndicated boats. The previous syndicate boat I used had a mega-useful tool for clearing assorted canal rubbish off the prop. I would like to introduce my current syndicate to the tool but I'm blowed if I can turn anything even remotely like it up, despite numerous Google searches.  

 

Does any one recognise the picture?

 

Its about 3-4ft long, tubular steel T-handle, with a backward facing steel blade fixed in the bottom.

 

The idea is you lower it down thru the weed hatch, snag the weed/duvet/groundsheet etc that has got round the prop and pull upwards. Either slices it off in chunks or pulls it off in one.

 

It was immensely useful on our last boat, especillay when we had a thick metal rim of a keep net wrapped round the prop. It took 2 of us to shift the thing but there was only room in the weed hatch for one. I held one end of the metal and guided the sharp bit round the free end of the other, then my motley crewmember was able to pull mightily upwards and open the loop of metal up. Rinse and repeat until it was freed enough to disentangle from the prop.

 

Since taking on a new share I've been looking for one but with precisely zero success.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks all

 

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The propmate is what we have used for years. It's brilliant. Miracle Leisure Products (who sell it as in David Mack's link above) are usually at Crick and they also do the rescue ladder/plank which we now carry since we reckon it's more useful that just a wooden plank.

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1 hour ago, NB Lola said:

ebay type in long weeding tool, apols re the huge url, I have removed it 

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We're on our fourth one of those. £8.50 at Birmingham Market. Unfortunately the blade is not fixed too firmly too the handle and too much tugging and you have a handle but no blade. 

 

I prefer one of these but so did another boater who removed it from my roof in Leighton Buzzard. The current one is chained on. 

 

http://www.yandles.co.uk/draper-expert-stainless-steel-patio-weeder-with-fsc-ash-handle/p13636

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Great Haywood marina have the propmate for sale in their chandlery.

Personally I use a pair of cutters, a pruning saw or a hacksaw although generally I try to avoid picking things up in the first place.

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2 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

Great Haywood marina have the propmate for sale in their chandlery.

Personally I use a pair of cutters, a pruning saw or a hacksaw although generally I try to avoid picking things up in the first place.

 

I find things pick me rather than the other way round ?

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Thanks everyone who replied. The weeding tool looks a nice idea. I'll have to investigate and see if a bit of judicious cross-bolting would eliminate the handle pull-out problem.

 

The Bargee Bill tool looks great but, as you point out, the URL is no longer being pointed at and , although a quick search throws up a Faecebook page, that too seems inactive.

 

Never mind, the repurposed EBay deweeding tool looks food for thought.

 

Thanks again, everyone.

 

 

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1 hour ago, David Mack said:

This perhaps:

https://www.miracleleisureproducts.co.uk/prop-mate.html

 

There used to be a thing called Bargee Bill's prop cleaner, which google gives as http://www.bargee-bill.co.uk/propcleaner.htm , but the site no longer seems to be available.

Bargee Bill had retired. I have the last ever Bargee Bill's prop cleaner. I am going to keep it in its original wrapping naturally. Cheers Graham

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5 minutes ago, WotEver said:

Why haven’t we had the usual recommendations of a Shunter’s Pole?

http://richardcarterltd.co.uk/product/66-hickory-shunt-pole/

 

That looks nice - heavy duty - and is it not a bit clunky to manoeuvre?! The propmate is light and supertough; hangs on a hook just inside the stern doors.

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44 minutes ago, Machpoint005 said:

Correlation or causation?

Because you have to twist the two halves of the handle to extend them, the hook is only peened into the that half of the handle. Too much tugging on material that doesn't want to give or cut easily and out it comes. Doubt it because it's from the market as your picture looks identical. 

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As i'm considering getting something for our shareboat since one of the other owners recently had to wrestle someones cratch cover off the prop at Wrenbury, I had a quick look on the old Wayback machine at the Bargee Bill site.

 

wow, that's a serious piece of kit. I'm sure I've seen a Klingon wielding it on an episode of Star Trek :D

 

if anyone else is curious; https://web.archive.org/web/20170405234752/http://www.bargee-bill.co.uk/propcleaner.htm will show you the old page.

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16 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

As i'm considering getting something for our shareboat since one of the other owners recently had to wrestle someones cratch cover off the prop at Wrenbury, I had a quick look on the old Wayback machine at the Bargee Bill site.

 

wow, that's a serious piece of kit. I'm sure I've seen a Klingon wielding it on an episode of Star Trek :D

 

if anyone else is curious; https://web.archive.org/web/20170405234752/http://www.bargee-bill.co.uk/propcleaner.htm will show you the old page.

Down with the Federation!

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2 hours ago, cuthound said:

 

I find things pick me rather than the other way round ?

Quite so ,Quote from a back in the day by well known boatman " Them as never gets owt around the blade never goos any place"

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