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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    Hi folks, Something visible happening at Lock 13 apart from the vegetation clearance. The team have started installing the temporary by-wash...
    Post by: baldbof, Feb 4, 2024 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    I need to make a slight correction to yesterday's post - 'Donk' is not a Shire horse, he is a Belgian Draught (or Draft) Horse. Still a...
    Post by: baldbof, Dec 16, 2023 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    One for @FearOfManchester, here's the restored winch on its plinth next to the slipway. [ATTACH] Now the reveal. I mentioned in the...
    Post by: baldbof, Dec 15, 2023 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    Very much so. The winch has been installed on a plinth and has a new cable wrapped around the drum.; it's quite hard work using it to haul a boat...
    Post by: baldbof, Dec 10, 2023 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    Hi folks, Thought I had better do an update on our various activities. I had mentioned previously about clearing and proving the feeder from...
    Post by: baldbof, Dec 3, 2023 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Retirement of RAF Hercules

    Don't forget Billy Butlin's Redcoat Air Cargo which bought some ex-RAF Brittanias to do the re-supply flights to Belize which had previously been...
    Post by: baldbof, Jun 23, 2023 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Retirement of RAF Hercules

    With the Hercs (and Concorde) at Fairford in 1969 then Brize in 1974 with the Shiny Fleet - I must be pre-prehistoric. ;) Still think it's an...
    Post by: baldbof, Jun 22, 2023 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    Hi folks, We are about to seriously commence restoration of Lock 13, the Friday team have been carrying out investigations and vegetation removal...
    Post by: baldbof, Jun 22, 2023 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    Hi Folks, Just thought I would pop in and say "Hello". It's not been a case of nowt happening along the canal, it's just it's not been in the...
    Post by: baldbof, Apr 11, 2023 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    Apologies for the slow reply. I have asked the question of those that know and the reply was: a). Cost - We were on a very tight budget even...
    Post by: baldbof, Mar 8, 2022 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    Spot on sir, you assume correctly. There is a 6' yellow marker pole attached to each bogie to assist the boat driver to steer the boat over the...
    Post by: baldbof, Feb 15, 2022 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    Our slipway was officially taken into use today with not one, but two boats hauled up on the bogies. The first boat was our weed boat 'Otter'...
    Post by: baldbof, Feb 14, 2022 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    After more work by our dedicated volunteers, the slipway is just about finished apart from some minor work and a bit of wall rebuilding. A test...
    Post by: baldbof, Feb 8, 2022 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Grantham Canal - bits of rusty metal and other interesting stuff.

    A photo of the original slipway has appeared in our society's newsletter. Reproduced here courtesy of Brian R. We still have the winch which is...
    Post by: baldbof, Nov 11, 2021 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Does steam and diesel have a future?

    Looking at some of the stuff chucked out of the back end of the jet pipes of some older aircraft (e.g Boeing 707/DC-8/Vulcan/F4 Phantom/C-130...
    Post by: baldbof, Nov 11, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction