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craig

craig

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Monkeybusiness said:
Not really oops - this is a clever bit of winching from Crouch. They are dragging one of the boats out from the canal breach at Whitchurch (this boat didn’t fall in the hole and seems to be pretty much unscathed).
There is also a spider excavator on site that I’d imagine will be used in the canal to work in the breach itself in the coming days.
Some big money being thrown at this job already!
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I think I`ve seen somewhere they plan on reprofiling the edge of the bank and and going to winch the other boats up and do the same as that one to re float them, guess that could be the job for the spider.
 
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Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Giles said:

Been lifting some road plates yesterday at trust site ppl walking through barriers because little gap next
to wall were we’d squeezed through unbelievable really stay away from the 6 ton digger and swinging metal plate
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28 farming deaths last year!!! 😳
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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Giles said:

Been lifting some road plates yesterday at trust site ppl walking through barriers because little gap next
to wall were we’d squeezed through unbelievable really stay away from the 6 ton digger and swinging metal plate
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probably some cocky sod 'prosecuting' his right to roam and got in the way on an op.s blindside
 
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Monkeybusiness

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Some good pics of the canal breach today - they’ve dragged the two boats out of the hole.
This Facebook page has lots of pics of the Euromach spider as well as Crouch Recovery’s new tracked winch-crane beast!
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Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Monkeybusiness said:
Some good pics of the canal breach today - they’ve dragged the two boats out of the hole.
This Facebook page has lots of pics of the Euromach spider as well as Crouch Recovery’s new tracked winch-crane beast!
www.facebook.com

Court Above The Cut | Chippenham

Court Above The Cut, Chippenham. 24,291 likes · 4,625 talking about this. Love Canals? Love Industrial History? Then you are in the right place! Proud Ambassador for the Lichfield and Hatherton...
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What on earth must that be costing CRT???
 
V8Druid

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Giles said:
apparently a female operator in the wm hire spider

didn't realize the orange crouch was tracked as well thought was just the yellow one they've just built
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Not Amey Pooley is it ... she's dropped off the radar of late ?
 
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Monkeybusiness

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Stroppymonkey said:

Dads on the farmers market committee down there. Apparently the damage was caused by a contractor pulling out a wooden post and replacing it with a metal one?
Heaved the tractor up apparently.
@JD450A might know more as it’s his patch
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Word on the street is the he did it, that’s why he hot-footed it up to LAMMA to find a kindly trade body to join/hide behind/take advantage of their protection (with a brown envelope securing a back-dated membership)…
Allegedly 😂
 
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Stroppymonkey

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Monkeybusiness said:
Word on the street is the he did it, that’s why he hot-footed it up to LAMMA to find a kindly trade body to join/hide behind/take advantage of their protection (with a brown envelope securing a back-dated membership)…
Allegedly 😂
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Fantastic story 🤣

Be interesting to follow the legal fallout from this . If a high pressure gas main isn’t marked and you are replacing an existing post and then a VERY expensive disaster happens. Who’s fault is that?

I hope he wasn’t insured with the NFU else my premiums are going to go up
 
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Smiffy

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Stroppymonkey said:
Fantastic story 🤣

Be interesting to follow the legal fallout from this . If a high pressure gas main isn’t marked and you are replacing an existing post and then a VERY expensive disaster happens. Who’s fault is that?

I hope he wasn’t insured with the NFU else my premiums are going to go up
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It's technically the land owners responsibility to provide the location of all services.
Also the firm I use to work for did a 9in gas main about 5 or 6 years ago. Wasn't as expensive to fix as you would think. From memory it was £46000. In the grand scheme of NFU liability that is 1/10 of a burnt out combine. More expensive when they drove a grab lorry out the tip site with crane up and hit a power cable pulling down a pole mounted transformer.
 
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Stroppymonkey

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Smiffy said:
It's technically the land owners responsibility to provide the location of all services.
Also the firm I use to work for did a 9in gas main about 5 or 6 years ago. Wasn't as expensive to fix as you would think. From memory it was £46000. In the grand scheme of NFU liability that is 1/10 of a burnt out combine. More expensive when they drove a grab lorry out the tip site with crane up and hit a power cable pulling down a pole mounted transformer.
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I've got a 6inch water main running through my shed site, and the rest of dad's ground. I only know it's there because I was subbing for Balfour Beatty in 04 when they relined it. It's not on any of the deeds anywhere and it's been there since 1955.
No markings anywhere. I've bounced off it with the digger before. I'm sure many of the neighbouring properties have 0 idea of it's presence. Buggers runs upto 10 bar as well.
 
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hiluxman

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Stroppymonkey said:
I've got a 6inch water main running through my shed site, and the rest of dad's ground. I only know it's there because I was subbing for Balfour Beatty in 04 when they relined it. It's not on any of the deeds anywhere and it's been there since 1955.
No markings anywhere. I've bounced off it with the digger before. I'm sure many of the neighbouring properties have 0 idea of it's presence. Buggers runs upto 10 bar as well.
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This week we've been putting some poles in on a farm. We hand dug the holes .Only 8 but they, said don't you have an auger, my reply was yes I do but I don't want any water features or sparklers....I've found lots of stuff previously there that no one knew about.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Stroppymonkey said:
I've got a 6inch water main running through my shed site, and the rest of dad's ground. I only know it's there because I was subbing for Balfour Beatty in 04 when they relined it. It's not on any of the deeds anywhere and it's been there since 1955.
No markings anywhere. I've bounced off it with the digger before. I'm sure many of the neighbouring properties have 0 idea of it's presence. Buggers runs upto 10 bar as well.
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when I was working with Alex at the fishing lake site in '17, we found a 6" HP main that wasn't 'sposed to be where we found it .... was bloody deep too, 'til we dug it up ... now about a foot down from the surface :ROFLMAO:
 
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