Now THAT Is A Boat Lift!

[Dave Fleming]

Falkirk Wheel (http://www.falkirk-wheel.com/wheel/falkirk-wheel/wheel.htm)

[mmd]

Hi, Dave. I recently saw a TV program called "Frontiers of Construction" that featured the Falkirk Wheel. A spectacular piece of engineering. I've always been fascinated by functional art, especially on such a grand scale.

A similar function, but in a vastly different form, is performed at the Peterborough Lift Lock on the Trent-Severn Canal in Ontario, Canada. This structure was opened in 1904 and has seen continuous operation to the present day.

http://members.aol.com/JohnC02114/D145lock.jpg

If you are interested in further info & pics of the Peterborough Lift Lock, visit

http://members.aol.com/JohnC02114/photopage.html
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume5/208-209.htm
http://www.cruising.ca/trent/docs/L-21.html

[Bruce Hooke]

WOW!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Bruce Hooke]

They do seem to have a knack for large-scale engineering in Scotland. One of my favorites has, for many years, been the Firth of Forth Bridge:

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/UK/Scotland/EDI/FirthBridge-003.jpg

[brian.cunningham]

:cool:

[Mrleft8]

Thet's naight a boot liff laddee... Thet's a skay hoook! :D

[Ian G Wright]

Originally posted by Mrleft8:
Thet's naight a boot liff laddee... Thet's a skay hoook! :D Did you learn your Scottish from the same chap that taught Dick Van Dyke Cockney?

IanW smile.gif smile.gif

[Mrleft8]

Actually, I learned it from a sweet lil old lady I used to garden for. She's 93 now, still spry as a spring chicken, and she still sends me a birth day card every year( she's also the ONLY person left alive who is allowed to call me by my childhood name)... The fact that I can't spell in Scottish is because there are no letters in the alphabet for some of the sounds that come out of a Scot's mouth... I'll never forget that first day of gardening for her (nearly 30 years ago), I spent a good half hour looking for a donkey on her property, because she had told me to "Go geh tha burro" Seems she was talking about a wheel barrow... But how was I to know that?

[Hugh Paterson]

The boat club I belong too is planning a flotilla sail on the Forth and Clyde Canal later this summer for those of the members that have boats that can be trailed to the Canal from moorings far and wide on the West coast, just to have a go at getting onto the wheel, I visit it now and again but the UNION canal it feeds is bloody shallow, a few feet of water 10 ft of mud :(
Shug.

[Leon Steyns]

Sorry, I just couldn't help myself... :D :D :D

Here's the highest boat lift in the world:
http://www.sengers.ch/ibelgien/strepythieu/01.jpg

And a link to more piccies: http://www.sengers.ch/ibelgien/strepythieu/strepythieu.html.

Greets, Leon Steyns.