Single-handed through a lock on self-service?

[watson1959]

Our locks are always "self-service" all 39 of them, it just takes a bit of common sence.

I secure one end on a warp (round the bollard and back to the boat) then work the other end whilst the lock fills/empty's. When I am back aboard I realease the lines from on board and off you go.

The lock pen's round here have to be left empty and the ladders are well used so we dont get the problem with them getting covered in slime.[/QUOTE]

Could you pop down here sometime and do a spot of scraping?

 

[My She]

The reason put to me was it was not a matter of cost (the lockies could do it when the river was not busy), rather it was a matter of pollution and H&S.

 

[My She]

What I wanted to add! was that was what we'd been told too. They also plan to paint the bollards white for the same reason. As a Volunteer Lockie tripped over one.

 

[TrueBlue]

What I wanted to add! was that was what we'd been told too. They also plan to paint the bollards white for the same reason. As a Volunteer Lockie tripped over one.

Won't stay white for long, then....