You must realise these things won a beautiful bollard contest and are really for decoration and not for practical use. The same can be said to be true of the wooden mooring bollards on the south SonA - which mooring ropes slip off - normally at the one moment you arn't within reach!
--- On Tue, 8/12/08, Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Report the bollards to HSE To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 11:05 PM Malcolm wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:15:23 +0100, Brian from sunny Suffolk > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] info> wrote: > > I have just seen the new wooden square oak >> wooden post bollards and I would suggest that even a rope wound round >> one with some weight on will bite on the corners and hold a boat up. > > Not very good - but surely they could very simply round off the > corners. > > After a while of course - and as long as they are used - the sharp > edges would be removed anyway - just think of all the groves cut into > the steel bridge guards etc. rope with grit in it is very abrasive. > :-) Having used several wooden bollards whilst waiting for locks on the southern Oxford this week I have to say they are completely useless with a middle rope as the rope rides up on them because of the angle. I also found at least 5 which are loose, presumably because people have tried to use them to strap a boat to a halt - I soon learned that this is impossible for the reasons Brian and Malcolm give, even if the bollard has the corners slightly rounded. Apparently these wooden bollards have just been fitted next to locks on the BCN. I can't think of any way they can safely be used going either up or down hill. Steve NB Bream [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
