So - now we know how many BW men are needed to install a Bollard. Last year we watched 5 BW men fix a water tap. One did the job, one seemed to be supervising, one scratched himself in various unmentionable places and two sat on the grass reading newspapers.
--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Bollards To: [email protected] Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 8:27 AM On 7 Aug 2008, at 23:37, rb999sb wrote: > I've also noticed that the bollards are positioned in direct line of > walk from the back of our boat to the paddles. I merrily walk round > them but might not if in a hurry. Well, at least I've brought the list back to life ;-} I take the points made by those who will find lockside bollards useful, but: 1) As ever it's a matter of priorities. At Compton yesterday, they had a gang of six blokes installing the square wooden things, at a lock where the footboard across the top gate is tilted downwards at around 15 degrees and desperately needs attention. Said contractors caused a four hour stoppage there the other day, when they chucked the bricks they'd cut out of the walkway into the lock and blocked the gates. 2) The shape makes them highly risky in their own right - knee high, light brown and square. 3) Compton already has a perfectly good iron checking post on the nearside. 4) The standard actually says "three mooring points", not "three bl**dy* great trip hazards with no relation to the original design of the lock". Rings would have been so much better. 末 All the best Bruce There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
