How Canal Lock Gates are made at Stanley Ferry Workshop - Ep. 66
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- So, how are canal lock gates made? We find out at the Canal & River Trust Stanley Ferry Workshop.
They hold back thousands of gallons of water and control height on the canal network, but how are canal lock gates made?
They've been making lock gates at the Canal and River Trust's Stanley Ferry workshop for many years. Enjoy this episode and find out how.
Many thanks to the Canal and River Trust for allowing us to film the workshop. You can find out more about the Stanley Ferry workshop here canalrivertrus...
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You guys are the reason I keep watching UA-cam and make me want to move to the UK and live on a boat. You are so informative. Thanks again for sharing your adventures with me.
Our pleasure 👍🏻
Fascinating insight.
I was dragged up near carnforth and as a child, walked my dog up the disused locks at the tewitfield start of the northern reaches.
I have wondered how lock gates were made since childhood and now in my mid 50's you guys have shown me how.
Brilliant. Thank you.
Awesome Vlog! That was true documentary quality, great editing, and sound work. And don't push any buttons!
But the big red one....! 😂
Every video of yours is a lesson in history or the technology that keeps the canal system running smoothly. Thanks from Missouri!
Wow, thanks!
What a coincidence, I watched a similar piece on TV last night in a documentary about the Liverpool to Leeds canal. Funny thing is your film was more informative,much funnier and better quality. Exceptionally well done guys.
Aww, thanks, Stev! x
Fascinating. I'd love to see the whole process from the beginning ; how they drain each section of the canal, remove and replace gates etc.
Its really interesting
Great video guys, thanks for the care and time taken to spotlight a fascinating and vital part of our canal network. Cheers 👍
Our pleasure!
Now that was worth watching..... now a vlog of the fitting please👍
LOL! Yes, sir 😂
This is one of your best vlogs, despite not containing any (much) canal footage! The processes and craftsmanship and care that go into this work are astounding! So glad you give the CRT the credit it so massively deserves. I became a supporting member of CRT as a result of seeing this video the first time, about two years ago.
@@ride8575 quotes I became a supporting member of CRT . End “quotes
Now I realise why you said this so glad you gave CRT the credit it’s so massively deserves lol .
Great video. Good to know how they manage replacing the locks. Their precision is amazing. The place must smell heavenly with all the wood😌
It did 😌
Another happy smile watching this video, reminds me of that women who flew around in a plane with her dog pippin, going to different places across the world educating everyone along the ride❤ keep it up lads x
Thank you 😘
Your articulate and professional presentation skills make you videos so compelling.
Aww, thanks, Wayne! Appreciated 👍🏻
Real men doing real work, nice to see nowadays. No cells phones in sight.
Yeah, unchanged in almost 2 centuries 💪
Heart[s] of Oak!
Outstanding video, as a welder I'm always fascinated how other craftsmen go about doing what they do! Well done!
Thank you! x
This was fun and interesting to watch. I am fascinated by the British canals and lock system, and this presentation of how they make the replacement gates is tops, professional. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! Have a lovely weekend.
@@FoxesAfloat You, too! :-)
A very interesting, well put together vlog. I must say I thought it was TV quality material from you guys 👍👍
Thanks, Peter! x
Agreed Peter.👏
This is absolutely fascinating and informative. I didn't realize there were two facilities where the gates are manufactured of good old English oak. I'm glad three seedlings are grown for each tree taken. Knowing the history of the machines that drill out the planks is cool. Thank you for sharing this with us! Take care guys.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A big "Thank You" from the western side of The Pond.
We have nothing comparable to your narrowboats or public system of canals for simply touring around the country.
You have provided a massive amount of information for what looks to be a very interesting lifestyle [I was an unscheduled early retirement, and you can guess how appealing it looks for keeping active and diverted].
Cheers! Yeah, it's definitely different but not for everyone.
Wow,what a coup. In this case (an instance of successfully achieving something difficult) not the other meaning a (sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.) Seriously though it has to be one of the best videos you guys have done. It's great to see the skill and craftsmanship that goes on in keeping the network going as many people might not understand just how much time and effort it takes so top marks for the video.
Thanks, Steve. They are wizards! 👍🏻
This video was great! Really helped to understand the door design. These are so sophisticated for something designed almost 3 centuries ago. The engineering is truly amazing. Thank you. 🌺🌸
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it, Chris xx
Yeah what a good video, very interesting. More on the history and upkeep of the canals would be brilliant. Love the outtakes. Cheers 👍
Thanks, Derek.
As an engineer I gotta love this kind of video. Who else but the foxes would even think to do one. Well done lads. 👍
Thank you Duncan, we loved filming it x
I’m not sure what fascinates me more about narrowboats and the canals. The history of it all or the idyllic nature of the whole thing.
Either way thanks so much for posting this! And I love the outtakes LOL
It might be cool if you did a bit on them dredging the canal floors while they are filled with water. What kind of interesting stuff gets pulled up come the bottom during dredging. Or any other non lock maintenance. Maybe tour some old lock keeper cottages that have been maintained in a historical manner.
It might be both those things, Jeremy. 👍🏻
Great to understand all the extra bits that are part of canals! And british oak. Its a labour of love!
It sure is!
I have all those machines in my workshop, only about 60 times smaller lol. Would love to work in a place like that. Another great informative show. Cheers
Cheers, Robin 👍🏻
so now we know how a lock gate is made. Well done guys. Enjoyed that.
Ta daa! 👍🏻
I bet the aroma of that cut, seasoned oak was great!
It REALLY was ☺️
Loved the behind the scenes look into making lock gates. Fascinating stuff and a great video. Love the outtakes!
Thanks, Tricia! x
Many thanks for doing this vid boys. As an ex joiner I found this totally fasinating. I've repaired fairground rides but not tried lck gates. All that oak mmmm I can smell it now, it was my favourite timber to work with. Big thanks to CRT for allowing you in as well.
Cheers!
A wonderful sample why people love you guys so much. Thanks for the fun time!
Our pleasure!
Loved this. Do more episodes like this. It's fascinating how all the canal systems work in England. I never even knew there were so many canals in England until I started following you both. I also never heard of a narrowboat. So I'm loving every bit of this. You need a TV show. Who do I talk to at BBC or perhaps the Travel Channel! Thanks and have a lovely weekend!
Haha! I wouldn't cope with TV, Deb. I can barely suppress my anxiety long enough to record a take! xx
Thanks guys that was great and a big thank you to Andrew. Loved hearing more about how the lock network is maintained. And as my husband says - you can't beat a bit of British oak! Paul & Helen x
Cheers guys. I'm sure the CRT crew at Stanley Ferry will be reading the comments too 👍🏻
Oh Boys you've done yourselves proud again! A brilliant, brilliant Vlog! Keep them coming :)
Thank you! x
Fascinating! Many thanks for showing us something that most will never see.
Our pleasure, Barney! 👍🏻
Very Interesting...I never thought about how these lock were made. Thanks....It would be great if you can do more of these instructional/educational Vlogs
Thanks, Lou!
Oh great, it's Friday, Foxes Afloat, fun and informative, bacon butty, a cup of tea. The weekend starts here!
Mmmmm... Bacon butty 😋
Only found your channel about a week ago but loving it and learning so much about our canals. As you can guess by my channel name I'm a magnet fisher and only really see the crap I pull out of canals rather than learning about the history of them. I think I'm about halfway through your back catalogues of vlogs but I'll be caught up soon.
Happy catching up!
That oak is such a wonderful timber. It just seems to glow. Lovely vlog!
Thanks, Les 👍🏻
That was very educational thankyou and Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺.
Thanks, Craig! 👍🏻
Been watching (at least) one of your vlogs every day for a few weeks now and enjoyed them all but this one is truly fascinating, my very best wishes, thanks guys.
Ah, cheers, Gareth 👍🏻
Fascinating stuff and dirt cheap when you think about it, a gate works out at 30p a day that's very good value for what they are expected to do and put up with
Exactly! They get some abuse too!
Wow, Some serious work goes into them. Thanks for showing us just how much.
Thank you! 👍🏻
Guys that was fantastic, have always wondered how they were built! Hats off to them for keeping our cut networks flowing
Thanks, Matt. They do a great job.
Thanks for the very interesting episode, well done. Ah, the old sneaked vs snuck debate at the intro, I’m with Colin, snuck is an invented word...
How about snooked? 😂
Thanks, Guys; thanks Andrew and crew.
👏
Knees at the start of the vlog! How lovely😆 Brilliant and very interesting subject. Thank you👍
Haha! Hope they didn’t shock too much 😂
That was amazing. You two should have that on TV as a documentary. So 25 plus a bit years. I thought it might be longer. So Great to see the company is still going Strong.
Yeah, they do a great job 👍🏻
@@FoxesAfloat So you Guys. If I hadn't said it before.👍
That was an interesting change from the regular travel vlog. It is good to see some of the work behind canal maintenance and renovation.
Will we ever see 3D printed gates in our lives?
Thanks. Not sure about 3D printed gates, but you never know 👍🏻
Another brilliant episode
Thank you, Simon x
Great vlog guys. We passed here on our trip this year. Fabulous to get a bit more information on the way the gates are put together. Thank you.
No problem! Have a lovely weekend, Dawn. x
Not something you see everyday. Definitely one of the more interesting Vlogs I have seen in awhile.
Thanks, Rick!
You guys really are an inspiration ! Your vids ooze peace and joy , not to mention sharing your informative matters on mental health. Altogether one of the most wholesome channels ive happened upon.
Keep up the good work! Meantime, I shall be off to visit some friends on their Narrowboat this weekend thanks to your inspirations .. Hopefully for a trip through blisworth tunnel. I'd rather experience standedge you guys have coming up.. What a ride that looks set to be.. but alas tis' a bit far from us !
Have you guys travelled down here? Some really nice scenery and stoke bruerne is definiteky worth a stop off! (Good curry house on the waterfront too)
Meantime, All the best chaps!
We have visited in years gone by but not recently. Have a fabulous weekend with your friends. I hope the weather improves! ☀️
@@FoxesAfloat thanks! And indeed , weather permitting .. Bloody murpy weather! Have a good one chaps !
In a time when we chuck so much stuff away, it’s heart warming to see people making things to last. And this goes so well with David’s (Cruising the Cut) visit to Bradley. PS I’m catching you up. Just another 30 or so to go. ;-)
Haha! Getting closer! 😂
Brilliant, how interesting. You don’t realise the work and money it takes to keep the network running.
A lot of people have no idea. Its amazing!
Your videos are the best and getting even better. Great work guys. Enjoying watching from midcoast Maine, USA.
Aww, thank you!
So, your not just a pair of pretty faces. Your educational as well. Thanks for showing this, it was interesting.
Hehe! Thanks, Pat 👍🏻💜
Brilliant work! I love these informative docu/vlogs that you are doing. I live in another country but am totally fascinated with the Industrial Revolution canal system from then to now. I also like how you can pick out the small quirky things to focus on and then the bigger things like the canal lock gates.
Thanks, Pauline. It fascinates me. I'm glad you enjoyed it too 👍🏻
Absolutely fascinating stuff. Love this informational stuff so much, gives us a brilliant insight into things we'd otherwise never get to know about.
Thanks guys 👍😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
I would love to see a vlog in the winter of installing some new gates!
Noted!
FABULOUS....
it looks like it was a top production company who filmed and produced this vlog !
Congratulations on a fantastic video, th commentary is professional and to the point.
Anyway, the professional work that they do is amazing.
Thank you Mr Foxes looking forward to your next video.
Ciao
Thank you! x
You are very welcome !
Once again a great and professional presentation. Thanks guys. I will resist any 'Carry On' innuendo... although there were plenty of opportunities, as shown in the last outtake. I loved the way Andrew pronounced "Hoops". The have a slight accident oops.
Ah, don't hold back, Bob. Grab the innuendo where it feels good and let go 😂
@@FoxesAfloat Haha. maybe next time. My favourite Carry On Coment. Lady with a guest in her flat shoos away a cat. " Get off the sofa Cooking Fat" The guest says " Cooking fat?" She replies "Well...That's what the caretaker calls it! "
Another lovely vlog. Did you get to push the button? Rich loves that song. I would have loved a look round that workshop. Thank you.
Fran x
Apparently, the big red button stops everything, but it was already stopped to stop me causing mischief 🙄 You'd have loved it, Fran! Lots we didn't get to show like the dry dock, offices, all the old photos and history was amazing! xxx
I really enjoyed this, well I enjoy all of your videos, but I'm a techie guy, so love all the working of any stuff, hope there is more to come of this type, as I'm going vlog by vlog. xx
Yeah, you're gonna love our new extra stuff later this year 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Well presented vlog lovely to know how the gates are made well done to all involved...thanks for sharing
Thank you, Ian. Glad you enjoyed it.
Brilliant. Enjoyed this so much.
Perfect. Have a lovely weekend!
Fantastic vlog! It’s so important not to lose the craftsmanship of our ancestors who built the canals and it was great to see how the gates are made. Good stuff! Well done 👍
Thanks, David.
Really enjoy this one Guys, Thanks x
Cheers, Andy!
Another cracking video boys informative and interesting thank you
Thank you! 👍🏻
This is a really good video,Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend.😊👌😁
Thank you! Weeeeeekeeennnnnnnd! 🤩
Lololololol. Great viddy. Beautifully rounded. Please push the big red button. Love you guys.
They wouldn't let me, Carolyn! 🙈
@@FoxesAfloat they should have. :)
YES! 😂 #Boom!
It was an open and shut case. And tremendously interesting! Thanks. Great to see aspects of the canal system that we tend to take for granted .... I wasn’t aware that so much effort and expense goes into lock gates.
Tadaaa! 😂
This video was so excellent in every way . Beautifully done indeed .
Thank you very much!
That was great guys. What a program trying to keep in step with the planned replacement program. The size of those gates too. The workshop tools are amazing, not for your usual kitchen cabinets made on those beasties, they're for serious woodchipping. Well done to the C&RT Crew pulling up with you two larrikins LOL
Haha! Nicely put 👍🏻
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for making this video. I was wondering how the wood is treated/coated/painted, as the ones I see around are usually black.
Thanks, Jane! Maybe a question for part 2 :)
Wow so interesting. I worked in a wood shop. Love their machinery. They obviously take great care of them!
Yes they do
As you say "absolutely fascinating "
It really is 👍🏻
Fascinating ...brilliant voice over ...so professional.
Thanks, Nicholas! Had a fab day there 👍🏻
Loved this!!! I love learning all the gadget/tech/structural things related to the narrowboat/canal world! Would love to see more about how you do boat maintenance etc too! Thanks so much - off to find me some cake!! Rx
Mmmmm... Cake!
Incredible precision in the mortises and tenons- huge pieces of timber. What a wonderful job they do making such a critical piece of the infrastructure of the canal systems. Many thanks for such an educational and entertaining episode. 😃👌👌👏👏👏👏👏
I'm sure they're reading these comments too. Thanks, Terry!
Would like to know what make somebody give it a thumbs down 🤔. Showing your state of art boat and this workshop is just another great way of showing what man can stil do. 🇩🇰
Ah, each to their own, Peter 😉
Thank you for that. Interested to hear that lock gates from Stanley go all around the country. I think we'll all look at lock gates more closely in future. Thanks guys.
Exactly what we did! We look at every gate now, knowing exactly how it was made.
Great stuff, again, chaps! The more you understand the effort put into maintaining the canal system, the more you can really appreciate it. It's incredible, really. Cheers! x
Exactly right! People don't realise the effort that goes into maintaining it. x
Brilliant - Here go on the Foxes Flow! :)
Haha! Enjoy! 👍🏻
As you said, fascinating. You're adding education to you're already entertaining vlogs. Thank you.
Thank you! 👍🏻
Liked and subbed, finally. Great travelling with you guys, I'm in a wheelchair, but I feel like I've traveled merry old England with you fine gents and enjoyed it greatly.
Aww, Robert, Thank you and WELCOME! Hope you enjoy our journey 👍🏻
Centuries-old joinery using modern tools . . . the best of both worlds. Fascinating.
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Well done. It was interesting to see how they make new gates. Keep up the good work. From sunny Florida, USA.
Thanks, William 💜
really interesting video. Such work that goes into the building of the gates!
Absolutely amazing and informative video. What a privilege to be taken inside the workshop where these lock gates are actually manufactured. Thank you so much for all of your hard work.👏🏻👏🏻
Aww, thank you for watching, Janet 👍🏻
Thanks for an informational vlog. It is nice to see the craftsmanship involved. It is nice to see that old English Oak is still around. (I won't say anything about watching a wood vlog in the morning, even if it is "rounded and well-formed". :) )
Nothing better than a nice hard rounded bit of wood 😂
fantastic video as usual! Its just staggering how 2 guys can produce such good quality videos. Love the fact you are trying new things also with this docu-videos, and its clearly working too!
Thanks, Ralph! Lovely feedback, thank you. Glad you'ree enjoying the adventures 👍🏻
That was a pretty eyeopening piece, something missed but now well explained. Thanks Foxes for sharing and Andrew for facilitating.
Cheers, Peter! x
Love learning type of work. Type of machenery is slightly larger then wath I used as a lad. What would be nice is to see installation.
Part two coming soon 😉
What a terrific piece of content! Thanks for the tour chaps! A side of life on the canals that normally stays behind the scenes!
Aww, thanks Heath! Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻
You’ve done it again. Another fascinating vlog. There is so much more to our canal system than mere stretches of water.
These departures from the accepted norms, are what set your channel apart from the rest.
Keep up the good work
Thanks, Gareth, You're so kind with your comments 👍🏻
Brilliant! Thank you for such a fab vid :)
Our pleasure, David! x
That was generally one of the most interesting videos I've watched in quite a while
Thank you! x
That was so interesting, brilliant to see British craftsmen using British timber and as always great fun to watch the Foxes, x
Thanks, Anita!
Great vlog guys!
Thanks, Phil.
I love these backstory vlogs. Satisfies my technical curiosities very well. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! 👍🏻