Y’know, I absolutely love seeing the the lock gear exposed like that, obviously there is some leakage or otherwise, but it just speaks to the hard graft involved in building it way back when. Now my working background is Infrastructure maintenance so I know a little about hard graft, digging out and replacing sleepers and maintaining rail profiles. But I digress, those Navvies are godlike to me, what they did to bore out these canals and the ongoing commitment to them by contractors and volenteers makes me proud to own a boat and live on their canals… amazing … at 10 minutes in your excitement was similar to my own when I went for a walk on the grand union at Wistow Leicestershire, only to find one of the pounds empty. I started to get it back in water having informed CRT of what had happened. Shall we say, a error made by the uninitiated appeared to be the problem. A constant on the canals. Great Video, and has an experienced boater, I always plan ahead.
I loved seeing the lock gear being exposed too. I don't have an engineering background but the history excites me, and the job done by the navvies using much more basic tools is remarkable.
@@towpathtreks we still use more basic tools on the railway, heel bars and 10lb keying hammers to remove and install rail fastenings, I’ve even done some volunteer work up,at Elsecar on the heritage railway replacing old wooden sleepers, if I ever get the time again, I’ll do more …
I walked from Huddersfield to Marsden, so only along half of the canal. The low water was visible between locks 12 and 13 to the west of Huddersfield but I saw boats on the move at Marsden and Slaithwaite.
Hi, the Trust has full or part restored various locks, bridges and cottages. I think Draycott is the main area they're working on and will be restored first. There's definitely a long way to go.
Y’know, I absolutely love seeing the the lock gear exposed like that, obviously there is some leakage or otherwise, but it just speaks to the hard graft involved in building it way back when. Now my working background is Infrastructure maintenance so I know a little about hard graft, digging out and replacing sleepers and maintaining rail profiles. But I digress, those Navvies are godlike to me, what they did to bore out these canals and the ongoing commitment to them by contractors and volenteers makes me proud to own a boat and live on their canals… amazing … at 10 minutes in your excitement was similar to my own when I went for a walk on the grand union at Wistow Leicestershire, only to find one of the pounds empty. I started to get it back in water having informed CRT of what had happened. Shall we say, a error made by the uninitiated appeared to be the problem. A constant on the canals. Great Video, and has an experienced boater, I always plan ahead.
I loved seeing the lock gear being exposed too. I don't have an engineering background but the history excites me, and the job done by the navvies using much more basic tools is remarkable.
@@towpathtreks we still use more basic tools on the railway, heel bars and 10lb keying hammers to remove and install rail fastenings, I’ve even done some volunteer work up,at Elsecar on the heritage railway replacing old wooden sleepers, if I ever get the time again, I’ll do more …
Thanks
Thank you very much. I hope you have a great day.
There is low water through out the canal
I walked from Huddersfield to Marsden, so only along half of the canal. The low water was visible between locks 12 and 13 to the west of Huddersfield but I saw boats on the move at Marsden and Slaithwaite.
Hi Mate I was wondering if you know of how the restoration of The Derby and Sandiacre Canal is going?
There seems to be nothing on TH-cam really.
Hi, the Trust has full or part restored various locks, bridges and cottages. I think Draycott is the main area they're working on and will be restored first. There's definitely a long way to go.
Thank you So much, will you do a walk there at sometime do you think?
@@andrewthomas3270 I walked there a few weeks ago. I think the video is uploaded to my channel cheers.