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New Fri 4 Sep 20 21:39 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Zero
This must be the most awesomely dangerous machine ever to be allowed in a public space. Fantastic!

youtu.be/3wZmACAB4hk

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New Sat 5 Sep 20 06:24 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Duncan
It makes you so proud to be British!
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New Sat 5 Sep 20 07:06 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Clk Sec
Paddlers' beware...
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New Sat 5 Sep 20 08:18 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Lygonos
Pretty funky.

Presume the rear raised deck covers a stack of lead-acid batteries? Don't see an exhaust.
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New Sat 5 Sep 20 09:58 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Bobby
What do they do with the stuff they scoop out?
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New Sat 5 Sep 20 10:03 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Zero
dump it on the canal banks where it rots down.
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New Sat 5 Sep 20 10:04 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Zero
>> Pretty funky.
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>> Presume the rear raised deck covers a stack of lead-acid batteries? Don't see an exhaust.

Yeah shame really, if it had a big eff off V8 blowing exhaust everywhere it would be perfect.
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New Sat 5 Sep 20 18:28 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - CGNorwich
You need to head over to the North Walsham and and Dilham canal next time you are in Norfolk. There is a similar but diesel powered contraption there.
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New Sat 5 Sep 20 19:16 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Zero
I was in North Walsham a month and a half ago

It was shut.
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New Sun 6 Sep 20 08:36 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - CGNorwich
The restored section of the canal is interesting though. Nice place for a walk with the dog.
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New Sun 6 Sep 20 09:37 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Zero
I did a nice walk with the dog along the trackbed of the old Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway which crosses the canal. The remains of Honing Station were fascinating.
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New Sun 6 Sep 20 12:44 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Ambo
Similar craft were used on the Broads pre-WWII.
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New Sun 6 Sep 20 17:01 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - devonite
be better if it was designed like a forage harvester that could blow the weed directly into neat rows on the bank or into a trailer to be carted away!
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New Mon 7 Sep 20 11:23 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Manatee
>> be better if it was designed like a forage harvester that could blow the weed
>> directly into neat rows on the bank or into a trailer to be carted away!


Might be tricky with wet knotty stuff. Then you get the wrong kind of weed and it wouldn't work:)

I've taken plenty of duck weed off the propeller on the cut. Mostly you can throw it off by reversing the prop briefly before it gets too bad but sometimes you just have to get in there.
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New Mon 7 Sep 20 12:19 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - bathtub tom
>>I've taken plenty of duck weed off the propeller

You need to try and cut a lorry inner tube off. Takes ages and then replace the shear pin.
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New Mon 7 Sep 20 13:41 
 Go for a walk, Exciting stuff happens - Manatee
>> >>I've taken plenty of duck weed off the propeller
>>
>> You need to try and cut a lorry inner tube off. Takes ages and then
>> replace the shear pin.

I've taken a tyre off, that was a real struggle. No chance of doing it via the weed hatch, I was in there. Went to B&Q for a hacksaw at one point to try and cut the bead (the boat was in the middle of Huddersfield). There wasn't really room to manoeuvre it, under the counter and behind the rudder. I gave up trying to cut the bead, must have been spring steel or something, gave it one last waggle before giving up for the night, and it just came off without any resistance.
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