Chris moves a boat down some steps

Simply messing around in boats. ■ With thanks to Silsden Boats www.silsdenboa... and all the team at the Canal and River Trust
The Technical Difficulties are:
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Editor: Elliot Gough
Location producer: Jacob Trueman
Audio mix: Dan Pugsley cassinisound.com
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[@techdif]

If you're wondering why Tom's so frustrated by that interruption, that's because you didn't see the other ten false starts.

[@trixiewasanegg]

You should bring back the extras like in Citation Needed

[@shaheenbekk]

i do miss the bonus footage i feel like this series would give some killer bonus videos

[@sabiro2315]

It lines up perfectly with some of the Citation Needed bonus clips so I believe it 100%.

[@ivanpatarcic73]

Are you lot planning a new format? I mean, I love the adventures, hence me being here less than a minute after upload, but I do miss the lowbrow side of Tech Diff - massive amounts of dick jokes and bad puns in fart-filled rooms.

[@qubik5181]

Why not?

[@hwithoutaname3629]

They really should do four sets of these so they all have the opportunity to cook a sandwich on a form of transportation

[@LelouchVee]

Gotta make them all historical transportation too Land (steam train) - check Water (narrowboat) - check Air (blimp) - easy option for S3 But what about S4? Underground, outer space?

[@lichansan1750]

We had trains, and canal boat. Steam ship, on the sea with a fisherman, maybe hot air Ballon (could be tricky). There are so many possible things. I think that would be a great idea.

[@amyshaw893]

@@LelouchVee well youve got earth, water and wind there, so i guess the final one is fire... Im struggling to think of a fire based form of historical transportation though. Maybe tom will finally get to see his lava and he can cook on it with a big frying pan

[@ragnkja]

@@amyshaw893 I mean, the steam train could count as Fire, in which case you’ve got to find something that definitely counts as Earth.

[@torinstorkey]

@@LelouchVee Submarine obviously

[@VezWay007]

"Sorry, I'm a professional idiot and they're watching me making a fool out of myself." "Champion!" Best part of the video haha

[@ODISeth]

At the end of this series I want to see a compilation of every false start and just how vigorously Tom gets interrupted each time

[@suzannep]

Yes that would be hilarious

[@MiseFreisin]

That's Gary's video!

[@ragnkja]

They did say “every Thursday this December”, and there are five Thursdays and only four of them. Blooper bonus video on the fifth day of Christmas?

[@nickwood8826]

Only problem is, that video would be an hour long

[@ragnkja]

@@nickwood8826 That’s a problem?

[@brorclausen9431]

Matt has conquered the sky. Tom has conquered the earth. Chris has conquered the sea. I'm gonna be seriously disappointed if Gary doesn't go to space.

[@minigolfkid]

hasn’t Tom already shown off the suit of Space Armor?

[@ArifRWinandar]

Finally we'll see Gary's Balloon to The Moon

[@-coffeecat1590]

Nah, i think he is gonna do food again Maybe cook bacon with space radiation?

[@liorramati265]

Isn't Gary supposed to conquer fire to complete the aristotelian elements? Or does volcano count as fire by that reckoning?

[@senpaipugs]

@@ArifRWinandar there's gas in there innit?

[@thetux459]

As someone who periodically listens to every season of Citation Needed, let me just say that "boxes of knives" brought a smile to my day.

[@bradleyjm1620]

I was so happy to hear them reference citations needed. And the joke at the Wikipedia article being for a different format. Top notch tech dif

[@nataliemccarthy9140]

YOU RAISE ME A SHIP SO I CAN MAKE ACCURATE METERS

[@notakirakarakaza2118]

I knew I wasnt the only one who does that

[@Loweene_Ancalimon]

It rang in my ears as being awfully familiar, but I can't for the life of me remember the context for the box of knives.

[@Wouter10123]

Which one is it from?

[@Fudce]

I love how the video links in the post-vid create a very surreal sentence. "This is not a simulator, It's a really angry hill"

[@egpx]

A bit of clarification: the Bingley Five Rise is, along with its neighbour the Bingley Three Rise, an example of a lock staircase. As shown, one lock empties into the next one and you have to ensure the lower locks are empty so the water in the upper lock has somewhere to go when you open the paddles. There's an overflow channel but you really don't want to rely on it. Staircase locks are fairly rare on the canals (except in Bingley!) due to the extra hassle in ensuring everything is prepared correctly. Whenever there is a hill to climb canals will tend to utilise a 'flight' of locks. This is a number of individual locks in quick succession, separated by a short stretch of canal called a pound. This causes less of a bottleneck than a staircase as after one boat has descended, another can climb the same lock and boats can pass each other in the pound. The canal Chris was on was the Leeds and Liverpool. Over the Pennines in Wigan there is a flight of something like 23 locks and I believe there are others on different canals with more than that. As for where the water comes from, reservoirs were constructed above the canal's summit to supply the water year round.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

The lesser-known neighbor, the Bingley One Rise, is just a normal river.

[@pauliiizweipunktnull]

From the moment on when Chris touched the first lock up till the very end I had the biggest smile across my face. This made me genuinely happy. No offense to Matt but once you step outside, the title of bounciest man is really up for debate between the two.

[@JohnWatkinsUK]

Bingley five rise isn't like normal locks. Each lock exits directly into the next lock, so they are very deep. Usually you would have a small pound (pond)that you travel through between each lock.

[@apjtv2540]

Chris: Can we get a flashback? Editor Tom: No.

[@ragnkja]

No need; the viewers’ brains provided it.

[@jamasa007]

@@ragnkja it was provided to the viewers brain vie telepathy

[@teipeu9033]

@@ragnkja “And now you know the wisdom of the metal-making.”

[@bananawieldingorenji]

@@teipeu9033 WITH THE BOX AND THE KNIVES!

[@unexpected2475]

@@bananawieldingorenji And now you move onto the next mountain of Rotherham, where the Chuckle Brothers will teach you.

[@mattscudder1975]

I love the fact that Tom actually did use that shot as the thumbnail like he said at 10:20. 😂😂😂

[@Vinemaple]

As a Seattle native who grew up with the Hiram Chittenden Locks, I was utterly charmed by this! The "Ballard Locks," as everyone calls them, have always been one of my favorite spots. It's just the one rise, but it's massive and mechanized and has two separate chambers. Years later, I started maritime school in Seattle, and I kid you not, despite how much I loved the Locks, it wasn't until I was in the training vessel, entering the locks, that I realized, oh, this is the very first time I've ever been through the Locks on a boat, and I'll be doing this every week for the next ten months... What a great feeling, and I had so many amazing experiences in the Locks, and got to see so many pleasure boaters make fools of themselves! This Yorkshire lock, though... it's absolutely AMAZING to have all that stuff be human-powered! Also, it must be nerve-racking not to be able to tie up and tend lines, to keep your boat in place... there are cleats and bitts everywhere in the Ballard locks, and you keep yourself in place by fastening onto one, then tending the boat end of that line. These canal boaters do it all with their rudder! It's so wonderful to see this canal boat infrastructure preserved. Most American historical canal locks are just archaeology, now.

[@__Albin__]

I sure did not need a flashback for the "Boxes of knives" thing as I by pure chance rewatched that episode only a few hours ago.

[@stephenwilliams163]

Years ago now I did a kayak tour down the intracoastal waterway in the US and I spent about three days on the Great Dismal Swamp canal. I was nervous about the lock to enter the canal. I thought they'd tell me I wasn't allowed to use it, so I spent most of a night portaging around it. There was no way around the exit lock though and the lock keeper was super friendly. He was tickled pink to see a kayak in his lock. I was the only boat at that time and he just sent me right through. Was really cool.

[@ragnkja]

Why on earth would anyone want to visit a place called Great Dismal Swamp?

[@stephenwilliams163]

@@ragnkja It's just a feature of the landscape, the Great Dismal Swamp. Named during colonial times. The historical plaques said that the canal had been dug by George Washington's company. I found it exceedingly boring to kayak down.

[@zacharybuilds]

As an American who's never lived near a canal, that title was a real moment of "Wait, what? How's that work?" I genuinely was trying to imagine a motorboat being sent down a flight of stairs, and I'm so glad to have learned this is a thing! Definitely going to look a bit more into this at some point. Loving the content, very excited to see what's coming!

[@postpunkpoet4888]

Anything Technical Difficulties genuinely makes me beyond happy, I love watching you all on your little adventures!

[@nat3007]

I would love more of this random adventure series. It's very enjoyable.

[@CanadaPlayz48]

Matt: flies a helicopter Tom: climbs up a kind of angry hill Chris: moves a boat

[@dominateeye]

Gary: lands a Cessna outside York Megabowl at one in the morning

[@Qmeister044]

@@dominateeye Proceeds to break into the Wimpy's and make himself a 10000p hamburger.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

All I was thinking in the bit where they were going up the steps was: did Chris drive the Ever Given? 😂

[@Sassenach1745]

Have gone for a number of walks down the towpath alongside the Caen Hill Locks (29 locks, but spread over about 2 miles - it's not nearly as steep as those!) but sadly never tried to go up/down them in a boat. One day! And yeah, locks usually have a back pump at the bottom of the flight to take water round to the top again (the one at Foxhangers can apparently move 7 million gallons a day) to keep the whole system flowing. Did manage to go on a narrowboat once as a kid, but that was in Wales, I think, and it was probably on a heritage bit of canal because it had a barge horse instead of an engine.

[@Socken1255]

I rented a boat from Silsden Boats last Spring (sadly not Rose's drum, a different drum), can highly recommend a week on a canal boat as a very chill holiday. Especially in baby duck season! We queued for the 5 (and 3) rise locks but didn't actually take them (it was a very long queue that day and we decided to just head back the other way instead, for fear of not getting the boat returned on time if we went down and up again) Chris was nervous of steering it in the locks, imagine 4 25yos responsible for the boat for a few days... Disappointed he didn't take the chance to live on it for a weekend tbh.

[@sycamore33]

I have to express a sincere appreciation for the color-coded captions, both in-video and in the optional closed captioning.

[@gunslingerspartan]

the two boats thing is because it's so deep and the flow pulls you under, normally it doesn't matter but at 5 rise it's so steep its difficult to rescue you if you fall in, both because of the current and because it takes so long to fill and empty, so where normally if you where pulled to the door you could probably wait it out at 5 rise you might have drowned by the time the pressure equalizes and it's safe to open again if there's two boats and you fall off, not only chances are you can't actually fall all the way in, but the person on'tuther boat can help

[@abg5381]

i demand gary wears a yellow shirt to be thematically appropriate

[@entenwood9024]

Im in awe with the amount of plants on the walls. Here in the Netherlands the canal walls dont have that many plants, lots of maintenance happens here, and that offcourse are old canal walls. But still. I love wall plants! btw 18% of Dutch cargo gets transported by inland canals and rivers.

[@skylark.kraken]

If you like locks, try Foxton Locks, 10 locks in a row Also, you can't actually mess up locks, unless you're able to overcome pushing against a huge amount of water, which you can't. Water will rise or fall and you lean against the lock lever in the direction you're going until the difference in water is 0 and the lock can open, boat passes through, close it, open the water gate (on the lock going down, on the ground going up, if you do the wrong one it doesn't matter, you can't mess it up), repeat. My dad is a huge canal fan and I've been on far too many canal boat holidays, I've lost a total of 5 lock keys. Most of my memories of it is waking up each day to my dad crashing after he had set off really early, I remember waking up to such a violent bang I fell out of my bed and the cupboards in the kitchen opened and spilled contents everywhere

[@tawawhite9668]

Greetings from Wellington NZ. Brilliant as usual. Took me back to a nice summer's evening in 1973 when I rode my bike along the towpath from Rodley to the 5 Rise Locks. For some daft reason we rode back by road up to Guiseley and home to Horsforth. I was knackered by the end of it as I remember.

[@tomwatts703]

I've lived in Birmingham for a few years as a student now and there's a canal almost right next door, I never really thought much about them until recently but there's a lot of heritage and interest there.

[@tekvax01]

I grew up living next to the Welland Canal in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. There are eight locks there between Lake Ontario and Lake Eric, in order to bypass Niagara Falls! Locks 4,5, and 6 are twin flight locks, where ships can go up and down at the same time. Every Saturday I'd go to watch them with my father and Grandfather. I even got to tour one of the ships as it was travelling up two of the locks! It was amazing! Each of those locks is over 200 feet in length, and 80 feet deep. The water moving from lock to lock is frightening but amazing! The eight locks at the Welland Canal, look and function in exactly the same way as these, however, they are three times the size, and all computer PLC controlled, under automation.

[@thqp]

I've now binged every episode, this show is so much fun to watch, and very, VERY wholesome on so many levels. Love it!

[@oliwkaradzik]

As someone who is not from UK and had no idea what were you talking about, I was really happy when Tom said "explain it to me". And then Chris proceeded to give a explanation that didn't help me at all. I love you guys, always coming back to your films.

[@simrock_]

Colored captions, very nice. Thank you for making the effort.

[@putnopvut]

Every time Gary's camera comes on, I think there's a fly on my screen.

[@murdoph]

Why?

[@Tamhvm]

@@murdoph I think it is that phone-wirey thingy in the wall behind. Actually, I'm more interested on what the hell is that thing? A background noise mic to subtract echo and fan noise when using a conference system?

[@murdoph]

@@Tamhvm Oh ok thank you

[@andyleighton3616]

I've been through the Fonseranes locks in Bezier (Canal du Midi) on a cruiser (not a barge) which is a bigger overall drop (or rise) than Bingley but it isn't as steep (it has more steps and I think the chambers are longer). So this was great stuff.

[@chrisoddy8744]

Shame the big Aubert pushy thing at Fonseranes wasn't operational, because that is just awesome...!

[@gpglicious]

Good show Chris!

[@disaidra]

Always assumed canal locks were alot more fool proof than they are. Interesting to learn just how many ways there are to screw it up.

[@cabe_bedlam]

Did a narrowboat holiday when I was 14 on the Kennet and Avon. At every lock, the *entire* boat got off and left me to pilot through on my own. Cowards! Caen Hill was fun!

[@DarleneLesmana]

one of these days a video is going to either fluster or anger tom enough that his face turns the same color as his shirt and i will be here to see it

[@theleva7]

Technically, his face is always the same color as his face. His shirts hue, however, would be difficult to match

[@DarleneLesmana]

@@theleva7 oh god hold on imma fix it

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

nice episode, thanks for more technical difficulties!

[@LeHosko]

I wish I had a group of friends like this.

[@samswift1718]

I like this format

[@zacm.2342]

Eyyy Bingley Five Rise, not far from me! And I saw the boat a lot when wandering along the canal to college/the shops (in different towns). Also went canal boating once as a kid, with family and couple friends and their families. Can't really remember it :P, though I think I liked it. Weird how certain memories can crop back up, eh?

[@tomr200199]

Like the green t-shirt continuity. A doff to Tom's red one? I wonder how long this had been happening...

[@takeohtyme]

Chris is epic. Like a well timed fart, normally silent but deadly.

[@fugithegreat]

I needed the subtitles turned on during the 19th century gentleman's club 😂😂

[@Alex-lh9tz]

Chris's bacon technique does need some work... But as always love the video and you 4, the chemistry is awesome and a delight to watch/listen to.

[@galli0]

Tom you can do Telemarkskanalen in Norway, do this but in a kayak 😁 did that 3 summers ago and it was super fun 😁

[@Nasipecel_pedes_pol]

"Alright, Kate Bush" 😂😂😭

[@isabellaangeline2175]

These guys are lovely.

[@Eliteerin]

Chris' beard is truly majestic now

[@rodefshalom]

10:57 - “That’s another format, Matt!” (citation needed)

[@ragnkja]

[citation needed]

[@valentinpatritti1297]

Love you chris

[@rabidsamfan]

That looks like such a neat way to travel.

[@drdeth2000]

Ah Bingley 5 Rise locks, been up and down on foot many a time. And it is as steep as Gary says.

[@MattieSheldonTheYoutuber]

YO I’m from Bingley, wish I’d been there when Chris was!

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

I didn’t even know this was a thing. I’d also get a kick out of it

[@PhattyMo]

Boxes of knives on canal boats.

[@JanneRanta]

Some drone shots would've been epic. Hard to understand the scale of these locks from ground only perspective.

[@davimurph]

The main problem with the bacon is that it's very floppy. If you don't cook your bacon until it is crispy, you have dishonoured the pig that died for your lunch

[@nat3007]

There were women who did canal boat work during the war the book gave a good insight into how hard it was.

[@ArrangedNoiseFan]

Amazin endin

[@ICountFrom0]

Honestly, that might be the best method of explaining youtube to the average non netizen. "Professional idiot", because they've SEEN sitcoms and america's funniest home videoes. They just have to wrap head around a change of scale on it, it's not a NEW idea, it's an OLD idea at a new size. And we can handle OLD ideas quite well.

[@TheBioethicist]

do I remember correctly, or did half of these involve making sandwiches? I would watch a challenge where the 4 of you compete to see who can make a bacon sandwich in the weirdest place. Budget is whatever you're willing to spend to make it happen, but you can't use a trip you were going on for work or anything. It has to be a bacon sandwich-specific endeavor.

[@znxster]

This is so much fun :D

[@aidan.22]

We need more two of these people are lying!!!!

[@DonMorte2]

Can someone make a gif of Matt pointing and saying "I've seen them that big before"?

[@somegeezer]

Proper Yorkshire.

[@MrTrilbe]

Once upon a time, those boats would have been dragged through either by horses or people, with the boat being 30 to 50 tons heavier when loaded

[@GobbledygookG]

Boxes of knives 🎉

[@EvilCoffeeInc]

This is the second video this week I've seen making a "box of knives" joke, I must know what regional stereotype this is referencing

[@ringsystemmusic]

Sheffield iirc

[@singerofsongs468]

phenomenal how often Kate Bush comes up in TechDif land

[@me_n_the_boys_lookin_for_beans]

i really enjoyed this video about cranking windlasses onto wet flaps

[@TotoDG]

"The main problem is, where's the butter?" -Norwegians during the Butter Crisis of 2011.

[@dominateeye]

A much more serious question if it really were the Buttock Crisis of 2011.

[@topsyturvy1097]

We have driven out of the lubrication

[@oolivero45]

@@topsyturvy1097 Beat me to it!

[@NotKyleChicago]

Did it cause panic? Yes... Smorpanic

[@bakkus82]

Good thing Gary was there to explain what was going on, because Chris had no idea.

[@gummihu]

Knowing Garry (which I don't) he could have just bullshitted that whole thing 😋

[@AllTheArtsy]

I watched the whole thing and I also have no idea 😅😅

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@gummihu I can hear Tom saying, "No! That's a different format!"

[@PrograError]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 But fact checking behold ~!

[@bananawieldingorenji]

Gary Brannan, Citation Needed

[@MogaTange]

“This one’s better; YORKSHIRE” “I blame you for this West Yorkshire man” “Not my part of West Yorkshire” The Yorkshire alliance broke down quickly.

[@LeoYoshi54321]

I like how so far all of these have been titled something mundane... except for Matt hovering a helicopter in an hour.

[@DerekMK]

"Matt doesn't go anywhere in a helicopter"

[@mattlander9119]

Old Top Gear opening titles vibes

[@hammerth1421]

@@mattlander9119 "Tonight: Matt attempts to hover a helicopter, Tom walks up an angry hill and Chris gets sweaty while canal boating"

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Well, there's no way to make that sound boring. It's just awesome.

[@kenta326]

Old top gear style titles, after S13 ish

[@VanessaMagick]

TONIGHT on the Technical Difficulties: - Matt hovers a helicopter! - I take a walk up a hill - And Chris moves a boat... down some steps!

[@brianpack5479]

Oh, no! Anyway...

[@alexandermoorehead3200]

This is the kind of thing I'd never have thought to do myself but I'm grateful it's there on the internet for my consumption. Chris clearly knows how to enjoy himself doing something seemingly so mundane.

[@christopherdurham1999]

From Wikipedia: "The five-rise opened on 21 March 1774. The staircase underwent extensive restoration in 2004 and again in 2006, when the lock gates and paddles were replaced. In January 2012 the locks were drained to allow the installation of new lock gates. The new gates are made of English green oak and, taken together with the balance beam, weigh more than 5 tonnes."

[@muadeeb]

That's a different format

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Ah, so it opened when Gary was in his adolescence.

[@ELRMushroom]

I now want to see Tech Diff going on a canal boat holiday together

[@bagpipemcgee7621]

4 Men in a boat. (To say nothing of the biscuits)

[@GryphLane]

@@bagpipemcgee7621 On the bummel. Or maybe the poop deck

[@iluomopeloso]

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Tom)

[@frederf3227]

The slowest adventure... in the world.

[@themodelrailwayman5470]

@@bagpipemcgee7621 12 Men in a boat, and thats my final offer! :P

[@chrisj683]

Chris’s explanation to the lovely lady who exclaimed, “champion” really made the episode for me.

[@WyvernYT]

And also Chris taking time out to pet someone else's dogs.

[@Ramonatho]

Wow, Gary mentioned Norfolk Broads without making the obvious joke. I'm proud of our boy. He's growing.

[@christophervalkoinen6358]

As the person who caught up with Tom's boat after a trip on the Llangollen Railway, I can confirm they really hadn't made it far by the time I caught up with them. I still have the photo somewhere of Tom with his arms and legs waving over the 120 foot drop of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.

[@shogun2215]

It was so good to hear a vintage *BRANDY* from Matt. Takes me back.

[@cdrag90]

“It’s like an Airlock!” Actually, an Airlock is like it.

[@ragnkja]

A water-lock and an air-lock operate on similar principles.

[@Koushakur]

...I somehow hadn't realized until just now that it's not just Tom and Matt that are color coded (red and blue), Chris and Gary is too (green and yellow respectively)

[@KingKool2099]

Having Gary send out the season, and with the adventures they've gotten up to before... it makes me think he's got something unbelievable up his sleeve. We're going to tune in next week and Gary will just be on the Moon.

[@empath69]

...cooking a bacon sandwich. ;)

[@lakie2042]

There's part of me that reallllly hopes Gary did the lava thing just to troll Tom

[@JamesF0790]

@@lakie2042 That would be perfect. Smash cut to Tom's footage and there's just Garry in the background unseen waving.

[@georgelloydgonzalez]

11:51 Nice to see one of the TechDiff having a normal human reaction to dogs. Because Tom is only endearing to birds, Matt doesn't like animals, dunno about Gary, but Chris is lovely with dogs

[@ragnkja]

Only birds? Cats too, afaik. And Gary used to have a cat, but she’s sadly passed away.

[@DerekMacColl]

Yup, noticed that as it's pretty much my reaction to any dog.* *Most terriers** don't count, they're yappits or woofits depending on size and annoyance level. Yes, this is size-ism about dogs. **Westies DO count, as might _some_ Jack Russels. Staffies too, I never think of them as terriers.

[@ragnkja]

@@DerekMacColl I’m the same, because while people who have big dogs know they have to teach their dog proper manners, far too many people with small dogs tend to be far too lenient. I know one small dog that I’m completely comfortable with, and it’s not just because I’ve known him since he was a puppy, it’s because he’s been taught manners. Sure, he can be a bit barky, but that’s what you get when getting a guard dog breed, and he’s generally a happy dog who knows that biting is for toys and food, not people.

[@DerekMacColl]

@@ragnkja That's part of it for me, certainly. I suspect another bit is growing up around dogs trained for retrieving rabbits and ducks, meaning that the smallest one I came across - not counting the Westie - was a whippet. All very well trained, and all friendly as all get go as long as you weren't a dead rabbit or duck (or stupid enough to get too near the ones they were looking after for their owner - people need training as much as dogs in some cases!).

[@panda4247]

Didn't Chris work in a ZOO for a while, or am I mistaken?

[@namewarvergeben]

Chris in particular seems like the kind of guy I would love to hang out with or go on adventures with

[@JonesNate]

Yeh.

[@stevenwheeler6278]

Chris is slowly becoming gandalf with his long, wise man beard and becoming ever more worldly.

[@IceMetalPunk]

"I'm a professional idiot, and they're watching me make a fool of myself." That's it. That's the channel description right there 😂 We don't have water voles here in the States, so I had to Wikipedia them to see what they were, and... they're so cute! 😍 I need to figure out how to both get a water vole to America, and also how to domesticate one to keep as a pet 😂

[@SamAronow]

Something something invasive species.

[@slook7094]

There are water voles from British Columbia to Utah.

[@panda4247]

Somerhing something ecosystem destruction

[@ac.creations]

@@panda4247 Little bit late on that one. Oopsie

[@topsyturvy1097]

@@SamAronow so am I???

[@thecactaceae]

Cannot wait for the highly anticipated followup series "Tech Dif Go Gongoozling"! (I'm actually shocked the word didn't come up to be honest)

[@Living_Life_RN]

Flat Bottomed Boats, you make the rocking world go round!

[@DukeofScott]

Locking world*

[@Living_Life_RN]

@@DukeofScott Y E S

[@SamAronow]

Kate Bush? Boxes of knives? Chert? It's all callbacks today!

[@dominateeye]

In fairness, they said "Chirk", a town in Wales, not "chert", a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz. But I appreciate the effort and the knowledge.

[@ThomasWinget]

@@dominateeye though I will say that this lives up to the catchphrase: "chert: it's distracting"

[@martyn101101]

If any of you want to try sailing for the next series, get in touch. You will have to travel down to West Sussex though and it may not be one for Matt as we have a dog 🤣🤣

[@sayi50]

"That's another format Matt!" And it is a format that I sorely miss!

[@rupert7565]

Chris, because of the money involved, you technically are a professional doing this.

[@ragnkja]

He did describe himself as a professional-a “professional idiot”, that is.

[@davegriffiths7311]

15:30 Nice to hear Chirk mentioned, especially given that I moved there 6 days ago and am currently watching the video about half a mile from the aqua duct

[@DasGanon]

**Reads Title** "If it's exactly what I think it is, I want to do that too"

[@DrDingsGaster]

That was actually really cool to watch! I've been to the Soo Locks in Michigan and they were absolutely mammoth! These small guys looked quite tiny in comparison but a lot more height to deal with. It was also cool knowing these ones are volunteer run and how absolutely manual they are. Loved this video! Edit: Because I was sick and forgot the easy spelling of Sault. xD

[@dragonheatgaming5005]

The five-rise is the steepest flight of locks in the UK, with a gradient of about 1:5 (a rise of 59 ft 2 in (18.03 m) over a distance of 320 ft (98 m))

[@VoIcanoman]

I've been to the Soo locks as well, saw some absolutely massive boats going through, huge ocean-going cargo ships travelling to Duluth or Thunder Bay. It was truly amazing to 11-year old me (and no less amazing now, 30 years later!).