The wife - pushing beam with what god gave her - stepped away (job done) from one beam to find her trousers only came with her with a ripping sound. The ends of the BW pins holding a (long gone) notice neatly placed in the pushing zone had rusted away leaving the pointed shafts sticking out. A real BW H&S hazard. No point in writing to them though and as she carried no pliers the best she could do was knock the things into the beam with her (Rochdale) windlass.
--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Bollards To: [email protected] Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 8:29 AM On 7 Aug 2008, at 20:45, Steve Wood wrote: > BARRY HOLLAND wrote: > >> What about the notices that have appeared [unnecessarily] on the >> G.U. south on the lock beams, ''Keep Clear of Cill Marker'' how much >> time & money has *that* cost?? > > They have appeared everywhere, not just on the GU. Unfortunately I > heard > 2 stories of boats caught on cills where the markers had already been > fitted whilst I was travelling down the GU a couple of weeks ago :-( > > One thing that I must say has impressed me is how quickly BW have > managed to roll them out across the country. Very efficient! > That's because they're laminated paper held in with tacks, and will last about as long as the last ise cream at a kid's party. Ditto the bridge names all over the place. 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]
