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AlanWhat is it?
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- BronzeLounger
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- gamma jay
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Re: What is it?
That's mullet Bill unknowingly draining the canal after pulling the mysterious plug!
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Rudi
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- BronzeLounger
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Re: What is it?
Full marks!Rudi wrote:That's mullet Bill unknowingly draining the canal after pulling the mysterious plug!
Chesterfield Canal Trust said that the plug would have been included in the designs for the canal when the plans were drawn up in the 1770s. Probably forgotten about for around 200 years!In 1978, a British Waterways dredging gang pulled up a chain which had a lump of wood on the end. This turned out to be a plug about which no one knew. The whole canal between Whitsunday Pie Lock and Retford Town Lock drained away into the River Idle!
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- gamma jay
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Re: What is it?
Its amazing that the piece of wood lasted that long without rotting away!!
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Rudi
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- UraniumLounger
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Re: What is it?
If kept in an anaerobic environment, old growth wood seems to last nearly forever. Even newer growth timbers last quite well in water with low oxygen content.
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Re: What is it?
Rudi,
Have look at http://www.ancientkauri.co.nz/zealand_a ... ood/theory" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Then do a Google on Old trees buried.
Have look at http://www.ancientkauri.co.nz/zealand_a ... ood/theory" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Then do a Google on Old trees buried.
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Re: What is it?
There be some bits of British wood wot last over 400 years!Rudi wrote:Its amazing that the piece of wood lasted that long without rotting away!!
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Re: What is it?
45,000 years old... that is impressive.
TX for the link.
I am aware of petrified wood, but it was just interesting to understand that in w wet environment the wood didn't actually rot away. Bob's anaerobic environment also makes sense...
Cheers all.
TX for the link.
I am aware of petrified wood, but it was just interesting to understand that in w wet environment the wood didn't actually rot away. Bob's anaerobic environment also makes sense...
Cheers all.
Regards,
Rudi
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Rudi
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