This brought back memories for me. In 1990 a wooden culvert under my local canal collapsed causing a substantial vortex. Several nearby properties were flooded and the access road blocked. Initially large hay roll bales were thrown into the whirlpool in an attempt to stem the flow until the emergency crews arrived. Relatively the canal is broader and deeper than average. So you can imagine The disruption it caused. Great video thanks for posting Brad. Subscribed.
Possibly a culvert going under the canal has failed . The ground on the right hand side seems to have a ditch there and be a lot lower than the left side ,so probably water may have started leaking and then failed . Badgers are really helpful in banks collapses too! But defo no sinkhole !! They laid a thin layer of clay all over the dug out strata , and very often turned a load of sheep in it and penned them in for a while , to puddle it in properly ! This in the late 1700's which was when it was built .
Looks like a lot of "housing" and livelyhood has been lost! Be a good time for a canal cleanup. Yep you need to metal detect a 200 year old canal, should be gold and silver in there.
Evening News Headline: Local man named Brad pulls giant stopper from canal in Middlewich. Same man seen revisiting the devastation 2 days later. Local authorities are asking for your help in tracking down this man.
This is part of the Shropshire union canal the Middlewich branch, my mate that works for the water ways has told me it was caused by badgers and rabbits that have burrowed into the bank underneath the canal and the bank collapsed taking a portion of the canal with it..the canal bridge over the river is just the other side of crater were you can see the river....
Nice Video! The sinkhole title drew me in.. still was interested in the canal giving way just as much... But I watch Brummies Outdoors & I think I have seen you before on there, contributing to a group outing... So I Subscribed & Liked your video. It was nice of the young lady to hold your camera while you dropped over that fence.
That's one pretty major breach. I remember the lock pound being drained for maintenance on the Keadby and South Yorkshire where I lived. Got the usual obligatory shopping trolleys, bicycles, road cones etc but right at the bottom was a WW2 motorcycle and sidecar combo which is now restored and in a museum...... crazy! A few miles upstream I know of several cars in there. Local joyriding yobs or guys doing insurance jobs use to drive them in. The waterways authorities have probably removed them now but never ceased to amaze me the stuff that found its way in there. K&SY navigation a good bit deeper as larger 'Sheffield' commercial barges once plied their trade along there along with Richard Dunstons shipbuilding which launched some sizeable vessels into the cut but that's a story in itself.
Great footage and thank you for sharing but I do not think this is a sinkhole. I think this was a washout of a canal wall or bank. Still very interesting to see the power of water at the washout point.
As far as why there may be all of those tires in the canal. Perhaps some boats had tires on the sides to act like bumpers, attachments rot off and thus the tires fall into the canal. Just a guess.
It looks like the levee on the side of the canal broke and washed out. A sinkhole would go down, that water went out through the side and took the trees with it. Would not have wanted to be downstream of that one, would have been a heck of a ride, lol.
Great video, they need to dredge the canal and put the mud in the hole , that would make the canal deeper and fill in the hole. from the USA. take care.
you can make out the original depth of the canal from your footage. The opposite side where you are walking you can see the dark silt at edge followed by the clay beneath. sometimes there are measurements on the original concrete cills indicating 6ft at cill. The dark silt has built up over the years covering the clay that was actually placed by hand and "puddled" to create a watertight seal. considering when this was done I find amazing.
Great vid. I wonder how much silt has filled in over the centuries. I can't believe the canal bridged OVER another river. a monumental task at the time I'm sure. I live on the Mississippi river and often ponder being able to see thru the water. Brad, when you turned 30 you aged 10 years. HA. you'll need a selfie stick that doubles as a walking stick soon.
wow yea thats a big hole. think that was a lot larger than the hole in the canal in romiley when that went. it drained but not as deep as the this one. you will have to see if you can find some info about it brad. happened in the early 80s
Boat owners use the car tyres on their put in points to save the hull from getting damaged by the bank Brad...That's why there are so many car tyres in the canal.
Thats a washout NOT a sinkhole! you can clearly see the canal wall is gone where the water cut through it. That canal has at least eight feet of black silt in it.
cletrac12c Canals are never eight feet deep to start with, only about 4 in the middle with sloping edges. Barges are often stuck on the bottom when the locks are used too frequently. But there is certainly a lot of crap in there.
Someone somewhere is so unlucky, that if they would have been on that canal in a boat, they would have been in just the right spot to have been sucked down that hill and have their boat destroyed. On the way down the hill, it would also explode and catch fire and burn to a cinder despite being surrounded by water. Then they would get stuck and remain there until the verge of death before someone rescues them. They will get rescued and recover, but get a very steep bill that will cause all sorts of other troubles. Of course, someone with that kind of luck usually has some idea of their luck and would avoid doing things that seem potentially dangerous, such as boating on a canal (boat could sink/catch fire/lightning strike). Probably why there was nobody caught up in this. The really unlucky people wouldn't have been around the area.
Canals had drains with plugs to facilitate cleaning out. Occasional excavtaor snag the pug and all the water runs into nearest river. I've heard of this before. Look fo rvideos of Elland Canal Bridge being rebuilt to see how shallow canals are.
Thanks for putting 1/2 of the song credit up! I am searching for the song on SoundCloud now! :) You have great taste in music, so that makes you all right in my book!
Brad, Sorry to see what happened there. I hope that the engineers push all thd soil/mud into the crater that was left from the disaster. That will clean the canal and eliminate the expense of hauling in the fill needed. Very interesting video. Watch your channel a lot here "across the pond". Good work. Carry on.
Hi there great channel Bud. I would defo look for some old vintage bottles or relics on that cannal bed. Bet there loads of history hiding there. Thank for sharing. 👍
Wow could be up to 5-6 months to fix that.Especially if heavy machinery cannot get to were it has breached.Sides will need shaving down,then the towpath will need under pining & re-piling, then mortared up.New sand & Bentonite clay will be needed to re-line the canal bed.Will cost around £750,000 to fix,Even more if they bring in 30-40 men to work on it.Busy canal with around 5000 boats using it every year.
B A Canals are only just deep enough for flotation of barges, three or four feet! The lining is clay to keep the water in, so you can’t dredge them much!
I don;t emagin the canal system is as important as it once was over there so will they rebuild it or now that it is Nakkered will it stay nakkerd it would not be cheep to fix
Hi Brad, Thank you for freezing your buns off to make and share this with us. It was really interesting to see. I’ll bet there are a few canal boat owners that are a bit unhappy. Thank you again. Stay safe, blessings! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😀
Somehow beautiful and stunning lol. Would've been a huge pile of scrap for the scrap man. Probably even some more neat finds if you had used a metal detector. And the best opportunity to clean the canal up and dredge it out.
Thanks for the great video Brad, I’m amazed that the local council is not in there with heavy machines cleaning it out while there is bugger all water in there. Car tyres are just one of them objects you seem to find in places that seem strange where there shouldn’t be any. People are weird. Lmao
Maintenance of canal is not a council task. Those responsible are the Canal and River Trust, who look about 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales.
It’s going to cost £3million to repair the breach. The canals are maintained by the canal and river trust. Which is a charity. If they don’t raise the funds to fix it. It’ll stay empty.
so, do you think they will fix and refill the canal, or just abandon it. it's not like they have a lot of commercial traffic, or do they? there were old canals in my area, but were filled in years ago as obsolete.
Not much commercial traffic, unless you consider tourism commercial....! There are at least two narrowboat rental companies in the town just up from that damaged section. And this section connects other sections of the canal system.
Definitely. In fact, Brad looks like he has super good luck, probably because he has good morals, I think he will find loads of gold when he gets a metal detector. So many people say Brad should do metal detecting, maybe he should do a GoFundMe to raise money for a nice metal detector
Wow that was amazing thanks for sharing. I wonder if they will take the opportunity to dredge the canal and repair it whiles it's as empty as that? I have a feeling that mud is a lot deeper than it looks. I cant help wondering how many million gallons of water it will take to refill it ad how long until people start to throw bits in again?
@THATS BRAD > Thanx for the video upload Sabotage, I'd reckon.....they (whoever), drilled into the side of the embankment and erosion and water pressure did the rest............ Anyway, no more mosquitoes will be breeding in that canal anymore! lol
awesome video brad mate 👍...i know where you are i live in the next town down from middlewich 😀.....and i know the bridge that the cannel was built over the top of ..fantastic looking bridge it was to shame they built over it ...we detected in the fields around there ..sure i have some footage on my earlyer videos from under the cannal and on top of the old bridge ..have to see if i can't find it and link it here if that's ok mate 👍
Thats awesome Brad it's good how you got over the fence to check out the sink hole! By the way, I'm sure you're not far from me, I'm in Stockport. Lewis
Brad, you need to get some ear muffs. They have like thin head band types. Your ears are really red from the cold. You don't want to get frost bite on your ears!
I honestly thought the canal would be deeper than that. that is barely a ditch, i can't believe they can run boats in it. here at mammoth cave the green river disappears underground for a few miles. still an interesting video now if you could decipher what makes people such litter bugs we would have all the answers
Check out these finds 3 guns 2 swords and more ua-cam.com/video/OpcLaZT0B7o/v-deo.html
Good point
Ideal opportunity to give it a clean out / dredge. Then, rebuild the breached bank that's caused the drain off. Great video.
This brought back memories for me. In 1990 a wooden culvert under my local canal collapsed causing a substantial vortex. Several nearby properties were flooded and the access road blocked. Initially large hay roll bales were thrown into the whirlpool in an attempt to stem the flow until the emergency crews arrived. Relatively the canal is broader and deeper than average. So you can imagine The disruption it caused.
Great video thanks for posting Brad. Subscribed.
It looks more like a Levee breach than a sinkhole. Thanks for sharing.
Possibly a culvert going under the canal has failed . The ground on the right hand side seems to have a ditch there and be a lot lower than the left side ,so probably water may have started leaking and then failed . Badgers are really helpful in banks collapses too! But defo no sinkhole !! They laid a thin layer of clay all over the dug out strata , and very often turned a load of sheep in it and penned them in for a while , to puddle it in properly ! This in the late 1700's which was when it was built .
Looks like a lot of "housing" and livelyhood has been lost! Be a good time for a canal cleanup. Yep you need to metal detect a 200 year old canal, should be gold and silver in there.
Evening News Headline: Local man named Brad pulls giant stopper from canal in Middlewich. Same man seen revisiting the devastation 2 days later. Local authorities are asking for your help in tracking down this man.
Its nice to finally see what the canals look like.
This is part of the Shropshire union canal the Middlewich branch, my mate that works for the water ways has told me it was caused by badgers and rabbits that have burrowed into the bank underneath the canal and the bank collapsed taking a portion of the canal with it..the canal bridge over the river is just the other side of crater were you can see the river....
Nice Video! The sinkhole title drew me in.. still was interested in the canal giving way just as much... But I watch Brummies Outdoors & I think I have seen you before on there, contributing to a group outing... So I Subscribed & Liked your video. It was nice of the young lady to hold your camera while you dropped over that fence.
I forgot to say it was interesting to see an empty canal after watching so many magnet fishing videos!!! Thanks!
Brad the last time I looked down a hole that big I ended up with a son lol luv him with all me heart ❣👍
You too huh, I thought it was just me. I love mine with all my heart also!
That's one pretty major breach. I remember the lock pound being drained for maintenance on the Keadby and South Yorkshire where I lived. Got the usual obligatory shopping trolleys, bicycles, road cones etc but right at the bottom was a WW2 motorcycle and sidecar combo which is now restored and in a museum...... crazy! A few miles upstream I know of several cars in there. Local joyriding yobs or guys doing insurance jobs use to drive them in. The waterways authorities have probably removed them now but never ceased to amaze me the stuff that found its way in there. K&SY navigation a good bit deeper as larger 'Sheffield' commercial barges once plied their trade along there along with Richard Dunstons shipbuilding which launched some sizeable vessels into the cut but that's a story in itself.
Great footage and thank you for sharing but I do not think this is a sinkhole. I think this was a washout of a canal wall or bank. Still very interesting to see the power of water at the washout point.
As far as why there may be all of those tires in the canal. Perhaps some boats had tires on the sides to act like bumpers, attachments rot off and thus the tires fall into the canal. Just a guess.
Without you kid I wouldn't have know about this, thanks for showing us.
You should have started your intro with a sink plug on the end of a magnet and a startled face....
B3NN10N omg that would of been awesome
It is like the Dead Sea. Whereabouts is this as I can’t find anything on google, except this video 😂
It looks like the levee on the side of the canal broke and washed out. A sinkhole would go down, that water went out through the side and took the trees with it. Would not have wanted to be downstream of that one, would have been a heck of a ride, lol.
Great video, they need to dredge the canal and put the mud in the hole , that would make the canal deeper and fill in the hole. from the USA. take care.
you can make out the original depth of the canal from your footage. The opposite side where you are walking you can see the dark silt at edge followed by the clay beneath. sometimes there are measurements on the original concrete cills indicating 6ft at cill. The dark silt has built up over the years covering the clay that was actually placed by hand and "puddled" to create a watertight seal. considering when this was done I find amazing.
You are so funny. You made me smile. Thanks.
Great vid. I wonder how much silt has filled in over the centuries. I can't believe the canal bridged OVER another river. a monumental task at the time I'm sure. I live on the Mississippi river and often ponder being able to see thru the water. Brad, when you turned 30 you aged 10 years. HA. you'll need a selfie stick that doubles as a walking stick soon.
Aye aye mayte ! Bloody sank hole left me dingy on its starburd
wow yea thats a big hole. think that was a lot larger than the hole in the canal in romiley when that went. it drained but not as deep as the this one. you will have to see if you can find some info about it brad. happened in the early 80s
also you have to give credit to the engineers of the day. it will have only lost water between the locks.
Boat owners use the car tyres on their put in points to save the hull from getting damaged by the bank Brad...That's why there are so many car tyres in the canal.
Very good video never seen the canal like this b4 but surely it should be deeper around the sides, keep going brad ur doing an awesome job
Sinkhole? Where? That's the embankment giving way not a sinkhole, a common thing with canals, a bit like a landslide.
Thats a washout NOT a sinkhole! you can clearly see the canal wall is gone where the water cut through it. That canal has at least eight feet of black silt in it.
cletrac12c Canals are never eight feet deep to start with, only about 4 in the middle with sloping edges. Barges are often stuck on the bottom when the locks are used too frequently. But there is certainly a lot of crap in there.
Blimey that was strange to see , it looked very shallow , it needed a good dredging , thanks for sharing .
Sounds like a good time to have a canal clean up party, couple skips and some volunteers, haul out the trash and remove some mud.
Sink hole was thirsty is all. But go back every day and you can say, "I see this sort of thing every day!".
all them poor fish too brad thanks for the video very interesting cheers
I like the way you start your video's. So cool
Someone somewhere is so unlucky, that if they would have been on that canal in a boat, they would have been in just the right spot to have been sucked down that hill and have their boat destroyed. On the way down the hill, it would also explode and catch fire and burn to a cinder despite being surrounded by water. Then they would get stuck and remain there until the verge of death before someone rescues them. They will get rescued and recover, but get a very steep bill that will cause all sorts of other troubles. Of course, someone with that kind of luck usually has some idea of their luck and would avoid doing things that seem potentially dangerous, such as boating on a canal (boat could sink/catch fire/lightning strike). Probably why there was nobody caught up in this. The really unlucky people wouldn't have been around the area.
Good video, didn't realize how shallow the canal was.
Great up-load sir. Much deeper than it looked in the pics!
Canals had drains with plugs to facilitate cleaning out. Occasional excavtaor snag the pug and all the water runs into nearest river.
I've heard of this before.
Look fo rvideos of Elland Canal Bridge being rebuilt to see how shallow canals are.
That's not going to be a overnight quick fix. WOW
They should dreg the canal while its low
Thats a sink hole
So if thats not a sink hole where is the water going
Well dig it out then. A small fleet of front end loaders could have most of that silt out in a week or so.
Thanks for putting 1/2 of the song credit up! I am searching for the song on SoundCloud now! :) You have great taste in music, so that makes you all right in my book!
Very cool to see. Sinkholes are fascinating. Thanks for risking your neck for us!
Brad,
Sorry to see what happened there. I hope that the engineers push all thd soil/mud into the crater that was left from the disaster. That will clean the canal and eliminate the expense of hauling in the fill needed. Very interesting video. Watch your channel a lot here "across the pond". Good work. Carry on.
thats one god damn sink hole lol id a been in that canal looking for old bottles good video gl&hh
That’s not a sinkhole. That’s a broken levy. It’s cause you pulled out too much metal.
WOW, just wow. Thanks for the video.
Yay!!!! Good to see your smiling face.....
Hi there great channel Bud. I would defo look for some old vintage bottles or relics on that cannal bed. Bet there loads of history hiding there. Thank for sharing. 👍
Wow could be up to 5-6 months to fix that.Especially if heavy machinery cannot get to were it has breached.Sides will need shaving down,then the towpath will need under pining & re-piling, then mortared up.New sand & Bentonite clay will be needed to re-line the canal bed.Will cost around £750,000 to fix,Even more if they bring in 30-40 men to work on it.Busy canal with around 5000 boats using it every year.
That is Crazy....going to take a while to fix that. Looks like a good time to clean the canal.
That was really interesting, thank you for making this vidio for us...
The canal in little lever near bolton broke its bank many years ago, love the vids keep them rollin brad.
How often do they dredge the canal, looks like it need it.
B A Canals are only just deep enough for flotation of barges, three or four feet! The lining is clay to keep the water in, so you can’t dredge them much!
B A
It’s not that shallow , that’s how canals are ! Deeper in the middle where boats generally navigate .
Thanks 4 shering. Its very interisting.
Now is a good time for the towns to clean the canal of the big stuff.
Seeing the profile of the canal was super cool! Nice video!
Saw this in the paper. Interesting to see a video of it!
this guy is a literary genius
Odd it looks more like a breach in the canal wall than a sinkhole. The hole being scoured out by the force of the water.
It is a breach, according to the newspaper. At least, one hopes it's a breach, because a sinkhole would be next to impossible to plug.
Hey Brad! this is crazy, it's like the magnet fishing equivalent to the 10 minute Freeview :D
I don;t emagin the canal system is as important as it once was over there so will they rebuild it or now that it is Nakkered will it stay nakkerd it would not be cheep to fix
Look! A sinkhole that’s devoured millions of gallons of water! I’m gonna stand right on the edge!
screamingmimi90 its not hungry for humans 🤣
Hi Brad, Thank you for freezing your buns off to make and share this with us. It was really interesting to see. I’ll bet there are a few canal boat owners that are a bit unhappy.
Thank you again. Stay safe, blessings! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😀
ALL CANALS HAVE A PLUG !! SOMEONE Has obviously pulled it
There may be more sinkholes open up in the uk due to the extreme heat you guys are having....ground drying out?
Somehow beautiful and stunning lol. Would've been a huge pile of scrap for the scrap man. Probably even some more neat finds if you had used a metal detector. And the best opportunity to clean the canal up and dredge it out.
Thanks for the great video Brad, I’m amazed that the local council is not in there with heavy machines cleaning it out while there is bugger all water in there. Car tyres are just one of them objects you seem to find in places that seem strange where there shouldn’t be any. People are weird. Lmao
Maintenance of canal is not a council task. Those responsible are the Canal and River Trust, who look about 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales.
I hope the canal can be temporarily filled so people can refloat their boats long enough to move them somewhere else. Maybe a giant cork? :-)
Great video!! Shame there's parrots in the comments section saying the same thing over and over! "Its not a sink hole"
Look, there's a safe... Keeps walking!!! Ahhhhh!
very interesting video. enjoyed that one! I gained some valuable info for my next magnet fishing adventure. cheers
It’s going to cost £3million to repair the breach.
The canals are maintained by the canal and river trust.
Which is a charity.
If they don’t raise the funds to fix it.
It’ll stay empty.
Very interesting video. Well done for braving the cold.
This one makes me smile like someone said. CHEESE.
Cheese
Very clean canal
Great video, was wondering when you’d turn up. Most exciting thing to happen to middlewich
Giant Sinkhole Swallows Canal!!! "Oh, it's not a sinkhole…"
That's a huge tragedy. All those stranded canal boats, people live in those too. Now they are sorta homeless.
so, do you think they will fix and refill the canal, or just abandon it. it's not like they have a lot of commercial traffic, or do they? there were old canals in my area, but were filled in years ago as obsolete.
Not much commercial traffic, unless you consider tourism commercial....! There are at least two narrowboat rental companies in the town just up from that damaged section. And this section connects other sections of the canal system.
Job well done my friend! Thumbsup for you:)
I knew one day one of you guys would find the drain plug with your magnet and spoil it for everyone!
You need to be metal detecting that
hey!!!!
Definitely. In fact, Brad looks like he has super good luck, probably because he has good morals, I think he will find loads of gold when he gets a metal detector. So many people say Brad should do metal detecting, maybe he should do a GoFundMe to raise money for a nice metal detector
i was thinking same thing id be straight in there!
Eclectic Closet don't think that would be a good idea to be honest, that sediment is probably about 6ft deep
Advanced Micro Devices he gas a metal detector.
Wow that was amazing thanks for sharing. I wonder if they will take the opportunity to dredge the canal and repair it whiles it's as empty as that? I have a feeling that mud is a lot deeper than it looks. I cant help wondering how many million gallons of water it will take to refill it ad how long until people start to throw bits in again?
@THATS BRAD > Thanx for the video upload
Sabotage, I'd reckon.....they (whoever), drilled into the side of the embankment and erosion and water pressure did the rest............
Anyway, no more mosquitoes will be breeding in that canal anymore! lol
Thank you. Very fun adventure. ( :
thx for filming that Brad!
That is quite massive sinkhole.
awesome video brad mate 👍...i know where you are i live in the next town down from middlewich 😀.....and i know the bridge that the cannel was built over the top of ..fantastic looking bridge it was to shame they built over it ...we detected in the fields around there ..sure i have some footage on my earlyer videos from under the cannal and on top of the old bridge ..have to see if i can't find it and link it here if that's ok mate 👍
Pretty neat to see i like this
Thats awesome Brad it's good how you got over the fence to check out the sink hole! By the way, I'm sure you're not far from me, I'm in Stockport.
Lewis
Ringway Manchester I’m Stockport to wooooo
Haha thought so!
And you mentioned getting recognised too, it's weird isn't it! haha
Brad, you need to get some ear muffs. They have like thin head band types. Your ears are really red from the cold. You don't want to get frost bite on your ears!
Thats a breach not a sinkhole. Canal and River Trust not keeping up with maintenance
Cool. Earth saying it’s over my turn.
That was awesome! I would have loved to see it happen😁
Hope you are well and in good spirits,vitamin d will help along with your meds.
That's not a sinkhole ,it's a landslide
What did it kook like down stream in flood path . ?
I honestly thought the canal would be deeper than that. that is barely a ditch, i can't believe they can run boats in it. here at mammoth cave the green river disappears underground for a few miles. still an interesting video now if you could decipher what makes people such litter bugs we would have all the answers
thanks, we don't have canals here.
damn thats crazy, sinkholes are pretty creepy!! appearing just like that
Will they clean out before adding water?