Wharfdale Development

[Granitechops]

Seen in the woods

Stray Dray??

 

[yb281]

Inspirational as ever Don.

 

[Granitechops]

Was out shopping at Exeter Sainsburys today, they are having a store revamp, over the security fence I saw some gabions,
looks as though they may be on the end of an old railway embankment
But dont quote me.
what did take my eye was that they seem to have been filled very meticulously, probably by hand, puts my 'random' stone filling to shame

 

[Granitechops]

So more gabions have been added to protect drainage ditches,

with bigger, clean, stone under cages, at point where drainage runs under

 

[Granitechops]

After making so many individual ones I got a bit tired, so cut corners by making this section in one piece,
but still with dividers to save bulging in wrong places, & separate lids

It does look neater, but not as perhaps it would look in a Quarry

 

[Granitechops]

Obviously the "Stray Dray" was not lost
just enroute to the basin
I am informed that her name is Queenie, & that she will used on wagon movements on the quay as & when required

The Horse Master giving verbal commands while seeing last wagon JUST clears points

 

[Granitechops]

Apparently a good horse will lean into the traces to get the wagons moving before moving their feet

 

[Granitechops]

Queenie pulling 5 loaded skips

 

[CoggesRailway]

It's brilliant when i first looked at the picture with the rock cages I thought it was 1:1 scale!!!

 

[CoggesRailway]

PS Am I seeing to gauges here don?

 

[Granitechops]

Ian, all my track to date is 45mm,

but I have had various flights of fancy about smaller guage feeder lines coming out of high caves & tipping down shutes to the "main" line

 

[CoggesRailway]

I reckon that might work really well!

 

[stevedenver]

don this is a great pictorial-so much fun to see-i too thought the gabions looked dead true to scale-thanks for taking the time to tell the story in pcis as you do

 

[Alec K]

Great to see real horsepower at last! Perhaps 'Queenie' has a little Yorkshire Grey blood in her.....

(From a 1959 advert used to support a BR Modernisation Plan publication)

Best wishes

Alec K

 

[Granitechops]

Well after the passing of almost 12 months since I posted on this thread, I have at last got the water to circulate.
I bought a small pump, a Blagdon minipond 900
and placed it in the canal tunnel so as to be as far from the weir as possible to reduce pickup of debris in filter

the brick is there to hold the pipe down so it dont float

 

[Granitechops]

The wire cable & the water pipe ( 34/32mm waste pipe) go through the dock wall above the liner, & just below track level

Think I need to take out a bit of the cement at the opening there so that the bend can go under further & the pipe wont then foul vessels docking alongside

it would probably look better if I added a cosmetic pipe flange as well

 

[Granitechops]

the pipe then runs under the dock tracks to the back cliff, where the waste pipe changes to 40mm flex pond pipe, was going to use waste pipe through the cliffs but just could not get enough leverage with the tree trunk in the way to connect together,
so solution wrap silver Duct tape around a short section of waste pipe till the diameter comes up to 38.3mm & its a good leak proof fit
Probably pay to also use hoseclips on the joint before winter comes, if freezing occurs more pressure could blow joint off

 

[Granitechops]

The pipe comes out the other side through a piece of rainwater 3inch down pipe inserted as an after-thought, entailing masonory drills, hammer & chisels, sweat etc. were its reconnected to the waste water pipe again, which is a lot cheaper than the flex pipe

which is not yet in its final alignment, needs tidying up back along the top of the ledge & possibly burrying in the soil

the watse pipe then discharges into another piece of down spout that was built in when the planter was originally constucted

& passes through the cliffs to discharge into the top water behind the viaduct

 

[Granitechops]

Better view of outflow

Through the arches

slow flow over the weir, fierce current not required on a canal!!

 

[PaulRhB]

Don do you use the Massoth XLcoconut shell sound unit for the horse shunter?
I like the gabion baskets