utterly random picture thread.

[Yorick]

Just took this to send to Mrs in UK. I like it.

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[Taipan]

Just took this to send to Mrs in UK. I like it.

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How heavy was that raIn!!! A boat has washed up in your garden!!

[Taipan]

Legging
Legging was the method of getting a boat through a tunnel. On short tunnels, the legging was done by the boat owner and crew. At long tunnels, professional leggers were available. At the 3 mile long Standedge Tunnel expert leggers could get an empty boat through in 1 hour 20 minutes, taking 3 hours with a full load, for which they were paid 1s 6d!

[Rockburner]

Legging
Legging was the method of getting a boat through a tunnel. On short tunnels, the legging was done by the boat owner and crew. At long tunnels, professional leggers were available. At the 3 mile long Standedge Tunnel expert leggers could get an empty boat through in 1 hour 20 minutes, taking 3 hours with a full load, for which they were paid 1s 6d!

There's a good description of this in one of the lesser-known Hornblower books. : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/770 ... he_Atropos

[Mr. Dazzle]

There's a good description of this in one of the lesser-known Hornblower books. : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/770 ... he_Atropos

That's exactly what I was thinking

[Yorick]

Just took this to send to Mrs in UK. I like it.

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How heavy was that raIn!!! A boat has washed up in your garden!!

[Count Steer]

Legging
Legging was the method of getting a boat through a tunnel. On short tunnels, the legging was done by the boat owner and crew. At long tunnels, professional leggers were available. At the 3 mile long Standedge Tunnel expert leggers could get an empty boat through in 1 hour 20 minutes, taking 3 hours with a full load, for which they were paid 1s 6d!

That was on the telly a couple of days ago. Think it was a programme about 'the age of the canal'. They were legging it through the Standedge. I always thought they lay on their backs and walked on the roof, but there's v little clearance.

[Count Steer]

Legging
Legging was the method of getting a boat through a tunnel. On short tunnels, the legging was done by the boat owner and crew. At long tunnels, professional leggers were available. At the 3 mile long Standedge Tunnel expert leggers could get an empty boat through in 1 hour 20 minutes, taking 3 hours with a full load, for which they were paid 1s 6d!

That was on the telly a couple of days ago. Think it was a programme about 'the age of the canal'. They were legging it through the Standedge. I always thought they lay on their backs and walked on the roof, but there was v little clearance on their boat iirc but in that pic there's too much.

[mangocrazy]

Legging
Legging was the method of getting a boat through a tunnel. On short tunnels, the legging was done by the boat owner and crew. At long tunnels, professional leggers were available. At the 3 mile long Standedge Tunnel expert leggers could get an empty boat through in 1 hour 20 minutes, taking 3 hours with a full load, for which they were paid 1s 6d!

That was on the telly a couple of days ago. Think it was a programme about 'the age of the canal'. They were legging it through the Standedge. I always thought they lay on their backs and walked on the roof, but there's v little clearance.

If one of those guys stood up unnanounced, his mate would be in the cut, sharpish...

[Yorick]

Surely make more sense to lay in line with the boat. Then muscles work naturally.
Bit weird to work the legs sideways

But seemed to work OK.

[Rockburner]

Surely make more sense to lay in line with the boat. Then muscles work naturally.
Bit weird to work the legs sideways

But seemed to work OK.

Depends on the height of the tunnel over the barge etc etc.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I have actually tried it, just for a laugh. We did a couple of canal boat holidays when I was a kid/teenager and we gave it go.

Lying on your back on the roof and walking backwards was easiest IIRC, but that relies on the roof being close enough! There was also one tunnel (which we didn't try legging) where the roof practically scrapes the top of your boat due to subsidence. Harecastle, or something like that, I seem to remember.

[Druid]

If one of those guys stood up unnanounced, his mate would be in the cut, sharpish...

I've just been reading the "Accents" thread, but that expression marks you out as a midlander for sure.

[mangocrazy]

If one of those guys stood up unnanounced, his mate would be in the cut, sharpish...

I've just been reading the "Accents" thread, but that expression marks you out as a midlander for sure.

I did take onboard a number of the local colloquialisms, it's true...

[David]

Surely make more sense to lay in line with the boat. Then muscles work naturally.
Bit weird to work the legs sideways

But seemed to work OK.

The boat , if loaded, would be too far down in the water.

[Potter]

A sparrowhawk grabbed a Blackbird in the garden yesterday.

[KungFooBob]

RE FTW.

[Sadlonelygit]

Must teach the wife how to read!

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[Wossname]

Met this cheeky chappie on the path today. I could have touched him…

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[Yorick]

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