Caen Hill Locks, Kennet & Avon Canal

[@Tojj29]

This was filmed on the 14th December 2024. You could be mistaken in thinking it was back in the summertime. Spitting with rain in the morning, like a summers day in the afternoon. Beautiful

[@SwenglishSteve650]

It's an amazing piece of engineering & nicely filmed mate, Cheers

[@Tojj29]

Thanks Steve, it is indeed 👍

[@RodKrisBisdakMotovlog0627]

Wow absolutely amazing and awesome place to see my friend. Great sharing and interesting content. Have a great day ahead. Ride Safe always

[@Tojj29]

Thank you Rod, appreciate it 👍

[@haggiswhisperer]

Jeez would need a lie down after going up all them in yer boat. Good drone work mate.

[@Tojj29]

Cheers Grah, I wouldn't even walk up the towpath it looked so bloody steep. That picture at the end shows just how steep that incline is, the drone doesn't show it.

[@blearyview2254]

Great to see the drone doing it's stuff again. What a ball ache of five hours that must have been with so many gates to open and close but the shot at the end was tremendous looking up.

[@Tojj29]

You don't realise just how steep they are until you see them from the bottom looking up. My Mrs has trouble shutting our garden gate, so not sure how she'd get on doing them😂

[@howie702]

coming down was a hoot ... just open all the gates and you had the first largest and fastest UK log flume circa 1810 ..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Tojj29]

@@howie702 🤣🤣🤣🤣Definite white knuckle ride

[@blearyview2254]

@@Tojj29 🤣🤣🤣

[@oldbootsontour]

Wow, you are droning again 👍👍👍 This views you can only have with a drone (or helicopter) and look awesome. Must have been a masterpiece of engineering in that time, designing and building that canal with those locks. Can imagine that you need 4-6 hours to pass these locks. If you look at the fenced (devided) parts of the pounds, they seem to have build up a underwater life of their owns. Must be a paradise for birds? Well done and interesting documented! 👍👍👍

[@Tojj29]

@@oldbootsontour First time for a long time with the drone, and great weather too. It's fantastic to see all the locks from the bottom, amazing engineering. Yes, there is lots of algae and weed in those pounds, looks like they need a clean.

[@kimetogo]

Wonderfull piece of Drone Photography Nige. Certainly a masterpiece of engineering. A place to put on my to visit list. Cheers

[@Tojj29]

@@kimetogo it is Joe, it's lovely. Would love to see a few boats going through but by the looks of it the locks have certain usage times

[@tomstc]

That's awesome footage, really well put together as well

[@Tojj29]

@@tomstc cheers Tom, great place to visit

[@flatcapcaferacer]

Nige you are certainly at the 50K lsubscriber level on editing and picture quality. Renting a canal boat for a couple weeks is on my bucket list. I watch a number of youtube channels with canal boats. Thanks for the vid.

[@Tojj29]

@@flatcapcaferacer Thanks Jerry, such a shame there were no boats going through at the time. My brother has regular canal holidays and my wife keeps commenting that maybe we should try it one day. I bet she'd be knackered after working all those locks for 6 hours 🤣🤣🤣

[@GermanJobbies]

Aw great share Nige! Utterly amazing engineering for sure 😮

[@Tojj29]

@@GermanJobbies Aye, but I'd have needed wee Keith to get up to the top of that towpath🤣

[@GermanJobbies]

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[@nigelsride]

Great video Nige , a proper drone flyer 👌 Got to say the build time for these locks are about the same time it's taking them to complete the M25 road works 😬. Great footage and video editing Nige 👍 👏

[@Tojj29]

@@nigelsride 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. And about the same amount of mcn water, 7 million gallons 🤣🤣 Cheers Nige, hope you're keeping well mate

[@nigelsride]

All good Nige, keep up the great work mate , it is special what you do 👍

[@TheDorsetRider]

Great dronage Nige. What a great piece of engineering. Was a pleasure to ride with you again.

[@Tojj29]

@@TheDorsetRider browny there wasn't it. If we go again in the summer we'll park at the top and test out that cafe, see how it compares to Jose's 🤣

[@TheDorsetRider]

@Tojj29 definitely, mate. Roll on summer ☀️

[@Banditmanuk]

Great footage. Carol crashed our previous drone into a canal 😢 We have the amazing Foxton Locks near us. They are a staircase lock system. The only problem with these was the incredible amount of water required to keep refilling the system

[@Tojj29]

@@Banditmanuk Incredible when you think how they were built and when. As you say Rich, they need a silly amount of water to keep them filled and working. I believe it's all maintained and manned by volunteers too. Thanks for watching 👍

[@Tojj29]

@@Banditmanuk I remember "drone gate". I think it was sabotage rather than pilot error by Carol 🤣🤣

[@Banditmanuk]

@Tojj29 Think it was during covid times when all you could do was go walking. It took off and immediately flew into the stone parapet of a bridge spanning the Ashby Canal. We went back with a hook and rope but never could find it. Carol says she never touched the controls!

[@Tojj29]

@Banditmanuk I know you've mentored it before in some of your videos, made me chuckle. It's amazing the amount of devices that do things on their own with no human input. We have lots in our house! 🤣 To be fair, my drone yesterday was having trouble judging where the water was. I flew down into one of the locks and it went stir crazy

[@howie702]

amazing footage Nige ... must get over there with my camera and spend a day when barges are moving about .... its a very interesting place, did you visit the cafe at the top?

[@Tojj29]

@@howie702 We didn't H, but we did stop at a burger van called Joe's for brekkie🤣 The tow path was a bit muddy so we didn't go all the way up, anyway, why walk when you can fly 🤣🤣🤣

[@howie702]

@@Tojj29 I've shared it on facebook .... hopefully all my facebook chums will sub to your channel now 🤣🤣🤣🤣 (or boost views up a bit)

[@Tojj29]

​@@howie702Cheers H👍