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Joining two countries by canal
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A visit back to see the Building of Bridge 85, Schoolhouse Bridge on the Montgomery canal as well as the new lining works taking place near to Crickheath Wharf
The last major obstruction before reaching Wales on the Monty canal. Looking back to the construction and where the project is now it is nearly finished.
The Monty is a major project on the network with initial aims to get to Welshpool on the current complete sections after the success of rewatering to Crickheath basin.
On this site near to Shrewsbury and Oswestry we take a look at Beaver Bridges lifting the sections in place.
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@malcolmrichardson3881 Месяц назад

Great progress in surmounting some formidable challenges - not least in raising the finance to intall that impressive bridge. Making the canal 'leakproof' doesn't come cheap either. Thanks for the update.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@malcolmrichardson3881 there’s money being pumped in on each side of the border, everyone is desperate to get it done

@huleco1085 Месяц назад

Fascinating to see all the work that’s going on! I was born and brought up in the area (although I moved away many years ago) but well remember what the canal looked like in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s! Thanks for the great video!

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@huleco1085 I might just pop over there tomorrow and do the bit between there and Llanymynech

@huleco1085 Месяц назад

@@CourtAboveTheCut That’s the bit I know best!

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@huleco1085 I actually recorded a video when I did this one BUT my camera had switched to a different mode without me realising and it was useless footage. I have the drone stuff already. The heritage area is awesome. It depends on the time I finish where I’m filming this weekend, fingers crossed as I’d love another walk through

@benjohnson614 Месяц назад

There's loads of canal work going on in Wiltshire as well good to see the water ways being restored back into use

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@benjohnson614 I live near the wilts and berks, in fact I’m at the canal side pub they own now fitting a shower for them. I’m also recording on a new section for them this afternoon

@benjohnson614 Месяц назад

@@CourtAboveTheCut cool it's nice to see lots of work going on I live Swindon I will look out for the video you post

@QALibrary Месяц назад

that is a very impressive and great project that coming along nicely

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@QALibrary they are absolutely flying with it

@ragandoil Месяц назад

Bloody brill mate , really nice tp see , i walked the as a kid to St Helens Sankey canal , now all gone for a ball of chalk

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@ragandoil the sankey has an active restoration but there are issues, most of the water came from long gone industry

@davidheap880 27 дней назад

Great to see all the progress . Remember walking the Frankton to Queens Head section with WRG in the seventies

@benthe13th 19 дней назад

Cracking video my man, very interesting. I'd love to know which dodgy local councillor approved those awful bricks used to clad the bridge

@CourtAboveTheCut 18 дней назад

@@benthe13th it’s better than concrete!

@tomcarr1358 Месяц назад

Very encouraging. After your next visit could we have an unobstructed O S extract or similar to see the environs and border. Last time I used geotextile sheeting it was not waterproof but used to give a stable base for interlocking concrete paviours through which some surface water was encouraged to percolate..

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@tomcarr1358 there’s a liner below, kind of like a pond liner.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@tomcarr1358 I think the geotexile is more to stop stuff growing through and piercing the liner

@t1n4444 Месяц назад

Your platform just "appeared". Good stuff mate, very interesting. Thanks.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

Much appreciated

@aBoatTime-uw9br Месяц назад

Just discovered your excellent channel. Subscribed.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

Amazing thank you and I hope you enjoy the rest of the videos! Watch out for my early stuff though, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing 😂

@aBoatTime-uw9br Месяц назад

@@CourtAboveTheCut Yes will do definately.

@arthurbaldwin1804 Месяц назад

I would feel a bit happier if something was happening in the welsh section of the canal. The Newtown end is being filled in as fast as possible and built on. There is a short stretch round Welshpool that was restored back in the late 1980’s but from Berriew through Abermule to Newtown it has become a stagnant weed chocked ditch.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@arthurbaldwin1804 it needs a connection, without boats moving up and down it it’ll choke up in a few years. I will be doing further videos later in the year but work is ongoing to connect the sections on both sides of the border. They have all the money I believe to do the welsh side. This isn’t the Newtown end but will connect the Welsh section

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

Sorry Welshpool section

@teaeff8898 Месяц назад

That concrete lining will be murder on the hull of a boat, scrape the blacking right off. 😮

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@teaeff8898 I agree but there’s more concrete in the canals than you realise as well a bricks etc, it’ll all do the same

@davidward113 Месяц назад

You must have a funny shaped boat

@t1n4444 Месяц назад

😂😂😂 Do you have a narrowboat? How, exactly, will the concrete scrape off the blacking? The narrator made it quite clear that mooring was not advised. Going by the cross section then that's how it was designed. That said there's bound to be some boaters who will moor up and whack pins into the bank. A bank that will compacting itself for a few years. There again there might be mooring stretches as yet to be installed with pilings, concrete apron and rings. Nobody wants to mess around with nappy pins unless they have to.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@t1n4444 there are basins and wharfs all along here. The entire section before this is all a Wharf with a basin right behind it, going the other way there’s multiple wharf’s and basins within 1/2 a mile.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@davidward113 it’s not at water level so you’d have a deep boat as well

@leswall3061 Месяц назад

Due to the angle of filming, the canal doesn't look that deep really good video

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

It’s actually really wide due to the slow banks, there’s room to pass 2 boats with that slope. It’s also not finished so the top of the slope will be a traditional mud Bank so everything you see is below the water level

@scrapyardwars 12 дней назад

1 million for the bridge those contractors were laughing all the way to the bank.

@CourtAboveTheCut 12 дней назад

It was a specially made bridge to fit down narrow lanes and they need a few more of them, the million included all the design work and formers etc. the next bridges will cost significantly less

@arthur1670 Месяц назад

So replacing with a bodge job leaking in 30 years

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@arthur1670 how’s this a bodge job?

@arthur1670 Месяц назад

@@CourtAboveTheCut modern life is a bodge job, using materials that have limited life then just break down and pollute the environment. I’m sure this stand canal construction now

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@arthur1670 some areas clay doesn’t work, stuff in the soil reacts and causes it to break down, gypsum being an example. That’s why many areas use modern methods, this area was particularly bad.

@SEANPOL203 Месяц назад

What countries

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@SEANPOL203 wales and england

@thetessellater9163 Месяц назад

Regarding nesting birds, it's not that they don't want to disturb them, it's a criminal offence to do so. ( Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, Section 1 )

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

You can still chop trees etc down during nesting season with a plan in place and a survey so it is all done during certain months to avoid nesting altogether

@1979jon 29 дней назад

Drone footage is good, what make ia it?

@CourtAboveTheCut 29 дней назад

@@1979jon I’ve just got a new drone, this is the mini 4 pro. I was running the 3 before and I think there’s a clear difference between the 2

@1979jon 29 дней назад

@@CourtAboveTheCut I've heard the mini pro 4 is really good, still on a beginner one myself.

@johnsmurthwaite3656 Месяц назад

Please slow your presentation down, it all sounds so rushed, instead of calming us.

@gordonchapman222 27 дней назад

I have to agree with John. It's almost like you're trespassing and need to quickly explain what's going on in order to run away before you're caught. Also, the drone shots are beautiful, but seem speeded up. I keep having to pause to enjoy the view

@CourtAboveTheCut 18 дней назад

The shots are sped up, that’s done on purpose, RU-vid is all about retention and long slow drone shots lose a lot of viewers. On the speech, I’m trying, I speak a lot slower than I once did but unfortunately I naturally speak very quickly, I always have done since I was a kid. It’s hard to train out!

@danielkrcmar5395 22 дня назад

That bridge should not have cost £1 million, that's insane.

@CourtAboveTheCut 22 дня назад

@@danielkrcmar5395 because of the style of the bridge they had to build casts especially for it, it was a unique bridge as you couldn’t get any other structure to site due to the restrictions on the lanes, the good news is the casts can make all of the remaining bridges needed so they don’t need to pay that again, making future bridges significantly cheaper than usual.

@danielkrcmar5395 22 дня назад

@CourtAboveTheCut Did they really need a cast though? Historically, these bridges were made without them and the arch would be supported by wood until completion. Or, was the cast done because of how cheap it'd make the future bridges compared to the traditional method of construction?

@CourtAboveTheCut 22 дня назад

@@danielkrcmar5395 a tradition hump back isn’t really allowed these days, it’s also a highway not a farm track so they had to tick a certain amount of boxes which wouldn’t allow a volunteer led job or even more of a traditional approach.

@danielkrcmar5395 22 дня назад

@CourtAboveTheCut That's fair enough. Thanks for the replys.

@CourtAboveTheCut 22 дня назад

@@danielkrcmar5395 no problem, always happy to answer where I can

@terrywilcott2137 Месяц назад

Someone always has to moan 😮

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

They’d moan if it wasn’t done as well, there’s far more habitat creation with this channel than what exists

@geoffcropper1410 Месяц назад

Doesn't look very wildlife friendly.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

This is all below water level, it’s sloped allowing nature to enter and leave the canal, the lining won’t make much difference, a clay bed still won’t allow much in the way of digging animals, nor anything water based to dig into. They will live in the sediment which you’ll still get with this system, in fact the gaps between the blocks will be an entire ecosystem on their own which you wouldn’t have had on the original build.

@t1n4444 Месяц назад

😂😂😂😂😂 Do you know about nature at all? In two years time you won't recognise the place. That's nature for you.

@geoffcropper1410 Месяц назад

I was looking at the banks. The canal where I live used to have water voles,but since they piled the banks they've disappeared.

@t1n4444 Месяц назад

@@geoffcropper1410 Not disappeared but simply moved elsewhere. In any case there wouldn't have been many water voles in a dried out canal. Nature always fills in the gaps so no need to despair just yet.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@geoffcropper1410 the whole canal isn’t like this, it’s just this section which is leaking.

@pedromorgan99 28 дней назад

The ££ million bridge is crap. Looks like some hornby design in blender with brick.bridge + gabions as a box set!! They could have done better than that. Lets hope some ivy or japanese knot weed grows fast and covers this disgrace.. .. ;-))

@CourtAboveTheCut 27 дней назад

They had little choice on the design, the lanes leading up to it are narrow so there was no possibility of bringing any large sections in. They are not allowed to build traditional jump back bridges any more and there is an active farm and farm sales place just up the road so they have to carry quite a lot of weight. Compared to most modern bridges it’s a lovely looking structure, it could of course been completely concrete with no brick face whatsoever

@dinosauralan.9486 Месяц назад

I do wish he would not talk so fast.

@CourtAboveTheCut Месяц назад

@@dinosauralan.9486 apologies, I talk a lot slower than I did in the early days of making videos. I’ve always been a fast speaker my dad used to moan at me all the time as a kid 😂