Saturday 14 August 2010

Stop plank housings

I featured an empty stop plank housing a few days ago. Here's a selection of different ways of storing stop planks on the Shropshire Union and Llangollen Canals.










This last housing is rather clever, don't you think? A special invisible cover to keep off the rain. Cheap, too.
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5 comments:

Neil Corbett said...

Nice collection. I often think we oht to create a web site where such things could be catalogued as photos. Other good candidates would be lock paddle mechanisms, overflow weirs etc.

15 August 2010 at 10:51
Neil Corbett said...

I meant ought!

15 August 2010 at 10:51
Vallypee said...

Great collection there Halfie. I was really looking for the invisible cover in the last one, but just couldn't see it! :)

I agree with Neil about the photography archive for this sort of photo collection.

By the way, and now I'm being serious, what are stop planks for? I know I could google it, but it's more fun getting a reply.

15 August 2010 at 18:53
Andy Tidy said...

Halfie
You want to watch out or you could end up with a blog devoted to aqueducts!
Andy

15 August 2010 at 21:45
Halfie said...

Neil and VallyP, thanks. Stop planks are lowered into special grooves at a narrow part of the canal, such as at bridge holes or locks, to stem the water so that work can be done on the "dry" side of the planks.

16 August 2010 at 00:17

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