#LOCK

Birgit Moldenhauer ArtBirgitMoldenhauer@mastodon.art
2025-06-27

This photograph was taken in a Tibetan monastery kitchen. The pots are used to serve butter tea while the monks pray and sing. The butter tea is salty and tasty.

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#Photography #Travel #China #Tibet #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Lock #Monastery #BuyIntoArt #Tea

Tibetan Butter Tea Pots
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2025-06-27
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2025-06-24

Is Tyler Lockett a… lock to make the roster?

Tennessee Titans general manager Mike Borgonzi signed veteran wide receiver Tyler Lockett to a one-year contract just days…
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AvernaleAvernale
2025-06-19

Doodles of my OCs Crisis, Coyote, and Zero by deviantart.com/catman0226 based on prompts I gave him:
Crisis being mysterious
Coyote being ditzy
Zero flirting with Crisis

A doodle of a tawny-skinned woman with emo-style bangs wearing a bat-wing cape with high collar and cravat, a wide-brimmed hat with plume, a canine mask, and black boots.A doodle of a Caucasian woman with long, shaggy hair pointing off-panel and saying "Sorry, I'm taking at the moment!" with a wink.  She wears a bolero jacket, a long blouse, strapped boots, and chain hanging from a collar on her neck and wrapped around her waist where it's secured with a lock.A doodle of a tawny-skinned woman with emo-style bangs looking startled at the black man with a braided ponytail trying to flirt with you.  She says, "Gah! Where did you come from?" He says, "Aw come on baby. I only wanna ask you out on a date..."
2025-06-16

It's a good thing canal lock gates are carefully balanced, because this lets one person push them open and closed. (It can take considerable effort if a boat has unbalanced the gate by crashing into it.)

To open a gate, when water levels on both sides are equal, push the beam. It's long, so it acts as a lever that reduces the effort. The beam of a lock gate is sometimes steel, but most often oak, as pictured. This beam is particularly bulky.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #boat #narrowboat #lock

A man's hand and a windlass laid atop the end of a square-cut oak beam beside a steel grab handle.

This photo focuses on the end of the beam. The beam is part of a massive oak lock gate (not shown).

A lock beam is a lever that lets boaters open a wooden lock gate that can range from a very small 750 kilos to a typical large size of 1500 kilos (about ¾ to 1½ tons). This beam is probably 50×50 centimetres or 20×20 inches—and has a flat end. Its full length isn't shown in the photo but might be 7 meters or 22 feet. The very end of the beam is bound by a reinforcing, flat steel bar, to keep it from splintering.

There's a solid steel grab handle anchored in the top surface of the beam, for boaters to grab and pull, to start the gate moving. The end of the beam is painted white, though the paint has worn away on top, as has the wood, from years of use and from getting tapped by windlasses. (Boaters usually have those in one hand as they reach for the grab handle with both hands.)

The windlass in the photo is a type of spanner or wrench, one piece of steel, with a square hole on one end that fits the lock mechanism. (Mechanism not shown.) For easier winding, each side of the windlass' L-shaped handle is about 30 centimeters or 1 foot, and about 2 centimeters or ¾ inch round in diameter.

In the background is a dirt towpath and some unmowed grass. Below the beam is red-brown brick paving with some ridges set in to offer some traction to boaters as they strain to push the beam.
2025-06-12

Chatting with other boaters along the canal, one of them mentioned that the Environment Agency (EA) has closed a broken river lock at Barnwell for repairs.

😮 There's currently no way to get the boat to the east coast, to join 2 other boats. Together we were planning to cross The Wash (a bit of sea) to Boston, subject to tide, daylight, and pilot advice.

We'll see what it means for our July plans. Maybe EA's repairs will be quick?

#CanalLife #canal #boating #boat #narrowboat #lock #closure #EA

2025-06-11

Instead of "it's raining cats and dogs!" Brits say "It's pissing down!"

It turns out they also say that when a drained lock chamber is leaking onto their boat.

I shared a lock with a crane-boat operator, today, and his stern is getting SOAKED.

#CanalLife #canal #CRT #crane #boating #boat #narrowboat #lock #leak

A view of a crane boat and a narrowboat in a drained canal lock. One wall of the lock chamber is in the frame. And it has several leaks. The biggest is hosing water onto the stern deck of the Canal & River Trust contractor's crane boat.

At the far end of the lock chamber the gate is just starting to open, because two people on land, their heads barely visible, are pushing the gate arm. The cast-iron works at the top of the gate is up, which signals that the gate paddle is still in the open position. There's a gap inset into the chamber wall for the steel ladder boaters use to climb up and out, and its upper handles are visible above the chamber.

There is some damage to the chamber wall where boats have been thrown about and smashed into the brickwork while the chamber is being filled too recklessly. There's a thick length of chain on one side of the damaged wall, presumable to absorb the energy of boats as they're thrown about.
kajal kumarikajalkumari
2025-06-06

Davenport rim lock
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2025-06-04

Bradley Workshop is where Canal & River Trust uses oak, steel, and plastic to make its "smaller" lock gates weighing up to 1½ tonnes (1⅔ tons). Lock gates hold back the water, so that canals can step up a hill using water-filled chambers.

Within each lock gate is a plastic paddle (photo)—a vertical, underwater door that boaters wind up to partly drain or fill a lock chamber with a boat in it.

canalrivertrust.org.uk/special

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #lock #gate #paddle #LockGate #CRT #UK

A cropped photo of a pair of oak lock gates in the Bradley Workshop. A pair of hands in the frame shows the massive scale of each oak door—about a foot thick (about 30 centimetres). The door closest to the camera has been shaped, one edge is rounded so the door can rotate once it is placed at one end of the lock chamber.

Added to the lower half of the oak gate is a plastic paddle, about a square yard (about 1 square meter) in size, set in a frame that holds the paddle against a square hole through the oak gate. Essentially, the paddle is a smaller, plastic, sliding door within a massive, rotating, oaken door. But the one door is called a paddle and the other door is called a gate, because historical English just is that way. The tour guide has just slid paddle up to the open position to show how it reveals the square hole through which water will flow to fill (or drain) the lock chamber. The paddle has some steel bracing and a steel bracket for the steel-toothed mechanism and gear (not shown) still to be installed. Boaters will use that mechanism to "wind" or crank the paddle up and down.

The photo is actually rotated to help the viewer imagine the paddle slide up and down when the gate is installed upright. But the gate is actually laying flat on saw horses, and of you look closely at the edges of the photo you'll see people's legs and bellies nonsensically rotated sideways; these are other visitors on the tour of CRT's Bradley Workshop with me.
2025-06-04
The image shows a small, weathered, yellow-orange building with a reddish-brown tiled roof, situated on the far bank of a body of water. The building has a dark, rectangular opening, which used to be a window, with a sloped roof addition over it. The building is surrounded by various trees and bushes, some with light green foliage, indicating spring. 
In the foreground, there is a body of water with reflections of the sky and the trees. The water's edge in the foreground and on the right bank is lined with tall, dry, light brown reeds. The sky above is partly cloudy, with areas of blue and patches of white and grey clouds. The overall impression is that of a rural or natural setting.

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