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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.
Kerry Stevensonkrst
2025-06-02

Went for a challenging today, saw many birds, including egrets, terns, pelicans, trumpeter swans and I think a beaver, too

👉Robert :mastodance:RobertRostock@norden.social
2025-05-31
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2025-05-31
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2025-05-31

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2025-05-24

@oysteinsin beautiful job you've done there. Well done. #canoe #paddle

Stardate: 2025.5.21 ▪️ Madam Katherine Hepburn is correct about that. 😊🙏 #KatherineHepburn #Life #Paddle #Wisdom #Quote #WiseWordsWednesday #WisdomOfTheDay
Thomas Tempelmanntempelorg@iosdev.space
2025-04-25

Is anyone here using Paddle with the "new" API?

I have several issues with invoicing and their support isn't helpful:

1. Is there a way to have the customer enter their business name and address so that it'll appear on the invoice? I.e. does Paddle provide forms for that, or do I need to do that myself before I invoke their "overlay checkout" page?

2. Is there a way to re-issue an already created invoice? (making new invoices keep state "unpaid", which I can't set to paid)

#paddle #paddlehq

2025-04-04

When Denali's boss decides that the only suitable punishment is a public spanking, she starts to get concerned - and regret really begins to set in once it’s agreed that the wronged customer should be the one to administer it. #paddle #spankingfantasy

2025-04-02

Hotel room service manager Denali feels rather noble when she decides to take responsibility for the mistakes of one of her employees - but will she come to regret her sense of fairness? #punishment #paddle

2025-04-01

Boats & Ships Coloring Book For Kids: Sail, Paddle, and Cruise Through Fun. Shop Now : a.co/d/gBklNnG #sailing #sail #boat #sea #yacht #yachting #Ships #travel #boating #ocean #boats #sailor #summer #adventure #Cruise #Paddle

upthecreek.coupthecreek
2025-03-27

The Murray is starting to call. We'll be heading up next Friday 4th April, for a five-day regenerative, immersive journey. Making an intentional return to our intrinsic place within nature's living systems. We can't wait. Feeling the pull? There's a few spots left if you'd like to join us; we'd love to have you there.

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earthlingappassionato
2025-03-21

A sunrise paddle through some amazing ice formations on Lake Superior © George Ilstrup

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via pangeen

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A man paddles through amazing ice formation on Lake Superior at sunrise.

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