The Anderton Boat Lift is a marvel of industrial age engineering and it's brilliant to see it restored and working again. I live not far away from it. Not a local, but I appreciate the engineering. ...Buuut, watching it work is something you really only need to see once, as it's not exactly a thrill a minute. Different if you're in a boat that needs to use it and you have hours to kill.
Запуск старинного одноцилиндрового керосинового движка... масло для смазки доливать каждый час, туда, где есть движущиеся части. Запуск - как в космическом корабле, а потом ещё следи, чтобы не заглох... И кораблик поплыл. Чудо.
I cant help thinking that coming out of the bridge, just sticking the nose at the apex of the corner and letting back end come round would have been easier?? Lovely evening light.
Her port bulwark I'll tell you how it got bent ! After I came out off her they put a up and coming hero on her that was going too do far more than I could ever doo he did he put her ashore on a mud flat for 3wks the tides were falling so crescent sent there tug draget to pull her of so a 4 inch nylon and a 500 horse polar pulled her of but bent the bulwark ! Some pull too bend that
HI, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your footage of the North York Moors Railway - particularly the aerial shots of the steam trains. I am currently finishing an audio album that combines the sounds of the Moors with original orchestral music that I have written and I'll be making a short video to promote the album (which includes the track 'Steam' featuring the sounds of the railway). I would very much like to include some of your film if that is ok with you? I will of course mention your name in the credits if you are agreeable to this? In the meantime thanks again for sharing these amazing views of Yorkshire with us all - they are spectacular!
If it's not directly for profit then yes I'm happy for you to use some of this video. Please put up a link in the comments once you've done it, would be interesting to see it.
Are there any widebeam working boats? Originally, British canals/locks were built for craft less than 7 ft wide, until some chap had a bright idea of building wider canals/locks, which could accommodate up to 14 ft wide vessels.
The earliest canals actually had wide locks to accommodate barges - some upt 18 foot wide, it was only when the Trent and Mersey canal had some.very difficult terrain to accommodate that the narrow boat was created. The Grand Junction (Grand Union) canal was.made for two narrow boats to travel together, though the bottom London end was built to cope with lighters and barges from the Thames. Many wide.beam butties (10-12 foot wide) were made.to use this end of the waterway and sometimes reached Braunston. Wide boats also were used on the Nantwich Canal and east end of the Trent Mersey to Burton and Soar.to Leicester (and sometimes further).
@@mykaskin I learned something new today. Always thought that narrow canals (like Trent and Mersey Canal for example) were built first and then followed by wider canals (Grand Union Canal). I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me.
Yeah, the beaded bands are really strong too on them. Coats and jackets aren't any more fun, but two worse I had was a matress, thankfully it feel off for some reason, and a van tyre with a full load on which needed a trip to the drydock to get it off: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-shr0A8KlrbQ.htmlsi=5js3ty2e8q6HsfnS&t=224
In the Netherlands i had a boot with a two cilinder Petter, 15 hp, aircooled. Bought the machine for almost nothing, and used it for more than twenty years. Summer and winter and with handstart. Absolutely fantastic machine, never had a problem. Each year fresh oil and air filter and that was it. Good idea to close the decompression valves with that piece of rope.
