Hey guys, What a life Brian must have. So sad that he is the only known narrow boat blacksmith on the British canals or maybe I misheard. You may already know this, but blacksmiths work in the dark so they can observe the colour of the metal as it heats up or cools down. Amazing trade to watch at work. Thank you Elliott and Sue for showing us another side of narrow boat life. Mark Alberta, Canada
Being a welder and having a small garage metal workshop. I found this video fascinating. Proper old school craft. I have the tools to bend, scroll & twist steel cold. But the art of hot forge work is beyond me, and i have a great respect for anyone that has the ability to perform this type of work. Great video and a great bloke you interviewed.
Hello from Kansas! Glad to see you guys out and about! My brother does blacksmithing on the side and at the local tractor shows. I've dabbled with it making items I needed. I build most things instead of buying. My main claim to fame were "Reindeer shoes". They were miniature horse shoes for Christmas, looking like one of Santa's reindeer had "thrown" a shoe.(even though reindeer have cloven hooves) My brother made one out of brass and then polished that one to a high gloss as a "new" shoe and my mom made a little red pull string purse to keep it in and added some glitter dust as some of the magic that makes the shoe so the reindeer can fly. The thrown shoes have lots of hammer marks and just a slight brassy finish indicating they had a lot of "mileage" on them. On Christmas morning a parent would place one around where the kids put out food for the reindeer! They would go over pretty good on Christmas mornings! Thanks!
Hi Sue and Elliot. That was a great vlog. Meeting with a fellow boater, with a business on board was very interesting especially a blacksmith, who'd have thought. Thank you for sharing. Take care and stay safe. ATB.x
I looked up your channel on my subscriptions list just yesterday to check and see if I'd somehow missed one of your updates! Good to see you again! Looking forward to your regular return, --Dan
Thanks Dan. Just got a lot on at the minute and trying to earn some pennies, but the cruising vids will be back as soon as we can. In the meanwhile we’ve got some interesting content (we think so anyway) across both of our channels coming up! 👍
I was staying overnight in Gnosall last weekend with my girlfriend. We saw several interesting commercial type boats. We had lunch and evening meal in The Boat Inn right next to the canal.
Love to see him working on a job he seemed a great guy and skilled. Proper hard work 💪 Id love a lathe myself for wood turning.... I got recognised at the weekend while i was magnet fishing on the Oxford canal by the brinklow marina with family from New Zealand i mentioned the Brinklow landslip blockage and they asked if i were the kayaker from Brinklow. Yes i am. Whens your next video out they asked. Banged a short short video out Sunday. Life is hard editing lol. Hope you guys are well. Youll have to let me know when you are up around this area, closeby will have to come collect you if were still blocked eh. Book you in for a climb up a tower 😊😊 intrigued eh.. All the best kev the Brinklow kayaker ❤
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Hey guys,
What a life Brian must have. So sad that he is the only known narrow boat blacksmith on the British canals or maybe I misheard.
You may already know this, but blacksmiths work in the dark so they can observe the colour of the metal as it heats up or cools down. Amazing trade to watch at work.
Thank you Elliott and Sue for showing us another side of narrow boat life.
Mark
Alberta, Canada
We didn’t know that Mark - that’s an interesting point!
Glad you enjoyed the video 👍👍
Being a welder and having a small garage metal workshop. I found this video fascinating. Proper old school craft. I have the tools to bend, scroll & twist steel cold. But the art of hot forge work is beyond me, and i have a great respect for anyone that has the ability to perform this type of work. Great video and a great bloke you interviewed.
Thanks for that. Glad you enjoyed it 👍👍
Yaaayyy we've missed you 🎉❤
Ahhh, thanks for that!! 👍❤️
Had the pleasure of seeing Brian a few years ago on the Llangollen. Nice guy. Keep safe and well.
Thanks Nigel 👍
Hello from Kansas! Glad to see you guys out and about! My brother does blacksmithing on the side and at the local tractor shows. I've dabbled with it making items I needed. I build most things instead of buying. My main claim to fame were "Reindeer shoes". They were miniature horse shoes for Christmas, looking like one of Santa's reindeer had "thrown" a shoe.(even though reindeer have cloven hooves) My brother made one out of brass and then polished that one to a high gloss as a "new" shoe and my mom made a little red pull string purse to keep it in and added some glitter dust as some of the magic that makes the shoe so the reindeer can fly. The thrown shoes have lots of hammer marks and just a slight brassy finish indicating they had a lot of "mileage" on them. On Christmas morning a parent would place one around where the kids put out food for the reindeer! They would go over pretty good on Christmas mornings! Thanks!
Loving that little story Richard - thanks for sharing that. Reindeer shoes 🤣❤️❤️
That was a great bonus. Thank you!
Thanks for that 👍
Hi Sue and Elliot. That was a great vlog. Meeting with a fellow boater, with a business on board was very interesting especially a blacksmith, who'd have thought.
Thank you for sharing.
Take care and stay safe.
ATB.x
Thanks Yvonne!! 👍😎
Missed you, we were worried, glad to see you both again
Thanks Chris 👍
I looked up your channel on my subscriptions list just yesterday to check and see if I'd somehow missed one of your updates! Good to see you again! Looking forward to your regular return, --Dan
Thanks Dan. Just got a lot on at the minute and trying to earn some pennies, but the cruising vids will be back as soon as we can. In the meanwhile we’ve got some interesting content (we think so anyway) across both of our channels coming up! 👍
I was staying overnight in Gnosall last weekend with my girlfriend. We saw several interesting commercial type boats. We had lunch and evening meal in The Boat Inn right next to the canal.
Hi there Harry - good to hear you’re enjoying the canals! Hope the meals were good?
E & S
Nice 1 folks…
Thanks for that 👍
Love to see him working on a job he seemed a great guy and skilled.
Proper hard work 💪
Id love a lathe myself for wood turning....
I got recognised at the weekend while i was magnet fishing on the Oxford canal by the brinklow marina with family from New Zealand i mentioned the Brinklow landslip blockage and they asked if i were the kayaker from Brinklow.
Yes i am.
Whens your next video out they asked.
Banged a short short video out Sunday.
Life is hard editing lol.
Hope you guys are well.
Youll have to let me know when you are up around this area, closeby will have to come collect you if were still blocked eh.
Book you in for a climb up a tower 😊😊 intrigued eh..
All the best kev the Brinklow kayaker ❤
👍🤣🤣❤️ that’s epic Kev - love it!!
Welcome Back, Will we be seeing more of you now spring is here ,I hope so.?? Cheers
Thanks Ramsey - we’ll have a few vids over the coming weeks for sure 👍
Yeah been waiting for update whoop😅
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Don’t you just love heritage cratmanship?
Well done Brian!
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Well not a update but your both still battleing on well done
We certainly are 👍
great video and very interesting, have not seen you online for a while since the flood
Thanks for that. Did you see our How to Cross the Ribble Link video? Well worth a watch even if we say so ourselves 🤣🤣🤣
I enjoyed that a lot. What canal was that on please?
That’s the Leeds and Liverpool John. In Gargrave. 👍