A true PH barge

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W12GT

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222 months

Friday 26th September 2014
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Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum but....

Whilst walking the hounds today I saw this which made me chuckle....



Hooli

32,278 posts

201 months

Saturday 27th September 2014
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I like to know how they loaded that.

FourWheelDrift

88,572 posts

285 months

Saturday 27th September 2014
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Like a glove


Benjaminpalma

1,214 posts

183 months

Saturday 27th September 2014
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Hooli said:
I like to know how they loaded that.
Or how come it hasn't capsized yet...

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

196 months

Saturday 27th September 2014
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You need a good run-up, this one is a Fail. rolleyes

perdu

4,884 posts

200 months

Saturday 27th September 2014
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W12GT said:
Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum but....

Whilst walking the hounds today I saw this which made me chuckle....


I like your dog thumbup

Hounds?

More than one?

That looks like a pair of purposeful boats there smile

W12GT

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3,535 posts

222 months

Saturday 27th September 2014
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perdu said:
W12GT said:
Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum but....

Whilst walking the hounds today I saw this which made me chuckle....


I like your dog thumbup

Hounds?

More than one?

That looks like a pair of purposeful boats there smile
Yes an English Springer Spaniel and a Short Haired German Pointer - both working dogs. Our pointer is very independent - you can see him in the distance!

24lemons

2,653 posts

186 months

Sunday 28th September 2014
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Where was that by the the way? On Wednesday I was on the train from Birmingham to London and I saw a car on a barge as we crossed a canal. I wonder if its the same one!

Simpo Two

85,597 posts

266 months

Sunday 28th September 2014
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Them be narrowboats sur... (6'10" beam)

W12GT

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222 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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Simpo Two said:
Them be narrowboats sur... (6'10" beam)
You anorak ;0)

TTwiggy

11,550 posts

205 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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Was it moored using a piece of frayed blue nylon rope, in true narrowboater style?

Simpo Two

85,597 posts

266 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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Seems to me that narrowboats fall into two classes:

1) The immaculate £80K jobs.

2) The rusting basket-cases, occupied by tramps with angle grinders, be-roofed with a wheelbarrow and 20 dead pot plants, a pile of logs on the roof, a pile of rubbish on the bank and bottles of piss lined up on the catwalk.

(If you need proof of the latter, check out the health hazard in Ely that's been there for months despite the sign from Ely Council saying mooring is only allowed for 48 hours... where are the jobsworth officials when you need them eh?)

2thumbs

913 posts

187 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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I guess I fall into the tramp category then biggrin

Although my plant pots are still alive and I've yet to leave my piss on the towpath!

Jaguar steve

9,232 posts

211 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Simpo Two said:
Seems to me that narrowboats fall into two classes:

1) The immaculate £80K jobs.

2) The rusting basket-cases, occupied by tramps with angle grinders, be-roofed with a wheelbarrow and 20 dead pot plants, a pile of logs on the roof, a pile of rubbish on the bank and bottles of piss lined up on the catwalk.

(If you need proof of the latter, check out the health hazard in Ely that's been there for months despite the sign from Ely Council saying mooring is only allowed for 48 hours... where are the jobsworth officials when you need them eh?)


They'll be having several multi agency meetings about said health hazard with lots of Fairtrade decafinated coffec and non gender specific biscuits packaged by Lesbians before deciding in triplicate that it's impinging on said tramps human rights to remove it.

Personally I'd wait till the owner is off to collect his Gyro and sink it.

Simpo Two

85,597 posts

266 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Renact a Viking funeral was my idea...!