You're the only one who can make me watch videos about hedge trimming :)

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks. I wasn’t sure if people would be into this one but so far so good!

@MrRossi1805

2 жыл бұрын

@@CruisingTheCut yeah, it’s interesting for a German like me!

@linesbylisa3557

2 жыл бұрын

I love it! All things involving the canals are so interesting. Thank you for covering a wide range of topics. 😁

Oh my, such high drama along the Cut. As always, you make the seemingly mundane quite interesting. Metaphor, Simile, and Hyberbole Award of 2021. Thanks David.

@SB_McCollum

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, very. I felt like Frances de la Tour could have read the wood chipper bit.

"...and like a stomach after a dodgy prawn, the recently ingested material was soon vomited out in projectile form." I don't think you've ever waxed quite so lyrical. Shakespeare, Johnson, Keats and the lot are, no doubt, quivering with envy in their graves. Thank you for another excellent piece.

@MrPecksniff

2 жыл бұрын

I just wish I hadn't watched this whilst trying to enjoy my sandwich!

Isn't it marvelous that there are people that will volunteer their time to do these jobs? They could be doing anything they want and they choose to help others. Absolutely wonderful folks!

For those of us without a canal boat who love the system which we walk, bike and sit and watch those at locks. Thank you.

It is a good day when you post. Thank you.

“Like a stomach after a dodgy prawn” 🥴🤢 Quote of the year 👏👏👍😀 Merry Christmas David 🎅🎄

I love your channel. Truly the gold standard for narrow boating. Bravo

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Great insight to the volunteers helping keep things in order.

I hope you know that this channel is so enjoyable that even some random 22 year old guy from Indiana loves every video you make. Cheers!

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Oh an episode of "Cutting the Cut"

Looks like a grand day out, and they're volunteers, no less. Where I live it's hard enough to get people to take care of the roads when you pay them.

Love it, volunteers keep the canals open and many thanks for that plus, as the gentleman said, they enjoy it.

Thank you David lovely filming and narration. I did wonder when you said you were going to stop filming the cruises what you'd do. This is a fantastic niche for you 👏.

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@danhoppy5517

2 жыл бұрын

I have to confess, I was sucked in on the therapeutic cruising videos, his description of the geese and swans, and the occasionally militant ducks, but the entertaining narrative as we all watched. And then it changed. And now we are sucked into the eco-system as to how all this magical kingdom is maintained. Not by words, but by the deeds of those that would see it live....

I did maintenance work like this for at least a decade. I can’t believe I’m watching it now, for entertainment! 😂 But....I must watch your vlogs. I never want to say that I’d missed one;)

Great video David! So interesting to see how it's all done. I bet their busy after that storm. Keep it up 👍😉

“It’s gnarly teeth prepared to munch on woody goodness” that’ll do it for me 😄

Always love the Health and Safety signs, looks like a man with an umbrella........

@MarkSpohr

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody dug a hole

Bless him and the nestin’ birds

The Canal & River Trust should consider putting you on their payroll 💰.

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

No! I’m strictly neutral and independent!

@altowatts1325

2 жыл бұрын

@@CruisingTheCut A man of principles I see. Well done Captain 👍🏾.

No VC's handed out, just an inspirational tale tale of men giving their all for Queen, Country, and Canal.

I really like the CRT episodes. Its like going on a field trip.

Working on the canals looks like a fun job. In general the canals are just fascinating. I wish we had a world like that over here in the US..

@HawksDiesel

2 ай бұрын

Would be really neat for sure! When i started watching this during the start of the covid years, inthiught the same thing but then realized Corporations would surly lobby against it somehow.

🕊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌟happy Christmas 🎄 to you and all who keep the canals up. And the environs.🌿

Good on the volunteers they are doing a great job . The contractors are also doing a good job , thanks for sharing the interesting video Dave 👍. All the best from Downunder.

David, thank you for posting this video. We know that it takes hours of hard work to put a 19 minute and 37 second video. I'm watching from Historic Bath, Maine in the US.

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

11:03 How many takes, I wonder, to deliver the stomach-and-dodgy-prawn narrative without cracking up laughing. 🤔 Deadpan delivery LEGEND!!!

Shades of Fargo with that wood chipper!!!!

@markbuker8947

2 жыл бұрын

Is that your buddy in the wood chipper there!?!?😂😂😂

I really enjoy your periodic videos depicting the inner workings of the canals. Your analogy of the “dodgy prawn” was so clever and descriptive 😂. This video certainly made me appreciate just how much work is involved to maintain the entire canal system. Excellent presentation David.

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

It is so nice to see people with extra time helping out.

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

What a great crew of folks! So nice to see in this day and age...volunteering to help clean up and keep the canals wide open! Great job!

After all .. you are still moving along the cut. Thanks for a new angel of boatlife!

As a retired person - can't beat watching someone else working! 🙂

This is great. Pensioners helping the community while they self have a purpose which they might have lost when quitting the job.

@bill45colt

2 жыл бұрын

pensioners??? are they all with pensions?? how could you tell??

@dorothydotson7154

2 жыл бұрын

Since watching cruising videos (and also Escape To The Country) I've really been impressed with the spirit of volunteering they have in the UK.

Much appreciated and welcome video. It is a difficult balance between ecology and the needs of the canal user. Like hamshackleton I love work, I can watch it all day.

The Dodgy Prawn would be an excellent name for a pub. 🤣🤣

It’s good you’re keeping busy in the winter months. :) I’m simply amazed you can take a boring subject like hedge cutting and make it entertaining, you have a gift few on YT have. :)

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Very enjoyable video! I think we need a collective noun for lockeys. A generosity of lockeys? A Kindness? A pound of lockeys? LOL.

All this excitement, so fast so furious. Tea was needed to calm my nerves.

This has left the realm of "free amateur video". There was research and a lot of time and work involved. Kudos and thank you for a very informative video!

This is better than telly. I wish you every success.

"And like a stomach after a dodgy prawn, the recently ingested material was soon vomited out in projectile form". You have your way with words, don't you :)

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

I try 😂

David, you are a marvel. It looked like such a lovely thing to be doing. Thanks for pointing out that the weather was unusually sunny, and for showing the other team on a cloudy day - I was getting unreal expectations of English weather. Speaking of England, the title is English - the equivalent American phrase is "can't see the forest for the trees". I do like the language in these vids. I like old-fashioned tools. I'd have been out there with a machete and a brush hook. And a first-aid kit.

I like the training on the pole saw. A full day. Hopefully, in order to use the loppers, it's just a written test.

@logicalChimp

2 жыл бұрын

To use *and maintain* the pole saw... I suspect the maintance side takes more time than just using :D

As a cyclist and walker of our wonderful canal towpaths I'd like to say a big "thank you" to all the volunteers. 👍🙂

From Nova Scotia, Canada. Thanks! I find all of your subjects interesting.

@Ober447

2 жыл бұрын

From New Brunswick and also find these films interesting.

Interesting that the volunteers are required to take the same training as the professionals. It does make sense as you don't want injuries and I'm glad to hear that they didn't make light of that.

You keep making them and I'll keep watching them. Thank you.

I love how you capture the atmosphere of the UK and the activities during the autumn and winter.

The CRT doing a treemendous job......🤣

Maybe it sounds strange, but here in Estonia we have whole cities heated with wood chips. Gas is expensive and foreign fuel, moreover, it's fossil. Estonia is a sparsely populated country and we have lots of forest and shrubs. Of course, there is a special technique for this.

A totally satisfying video of a happy crew doing invaluable work. Thank You

He's a lumbarjavk and he's ok , he works all night and he sleeps all day ........ Great Vlog David , I bet many cheese sandwiches were consumed

I live in in what is left of South Africa. I yearn for the days of diligence and ingenuity and honesty and caring and responsibility and industry. Your endeavours here just make it so evident what we are missing here.

once again you have provided an entertaning and yet informitave vlog on canal life... thank you so much for the lovely time.

A couple of weeks ago, workmen were clearing and felling trees along the path which follows a disused railway line near me. I've been getting so much peace and quiet lately, I stopped to have a sit-down within earshot of the woodchipper. It was relaxing.

Love your narrative, sir!

Thanks David most enjoyable ☺️

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

Still fascinating videos!

Omg some needs to show that man how to sharpen a chain correctly.

Another great insight to the upkeep of the canals, from the view of the eager and enthusiastic volunteers, and the seasoned contractors. Still amazes me that Georgian and early Victorian travel systems still function so well in the 21st century!

This is beyond quality reporting it sets a benchmark, beyond with descriptive explanations amid amusing lines that surely I can now try to bring into my daily conversations. ' Recalcitrant branch' , ' gnarly teeth prepared to munch on wood goodness' and the best of all, like a stomach after a dodgy prawn , the recently ingested material was soon vomited out in projectile form' Thank you for making my day after a difficult working week. I laughed so much, I and am now relaxed and ready to start my weekend. Keep up the great work. very informative.

Not all heroes wear capes. Bravo to a great team of volunteers and an interesting video.

Love the safety signs, without them people could not notice the chaps cutting down trees with noisy saws.

@ThePorkypete51

2 жыл бұрын

elf n safety gone mad

@dad7720

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I find it hard to understand how we ever managed to do anything in this country without hi vis, crash helmets, visors and the h&s gestapo...

@steventoby3768

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and wearing bright yellow jackets too!

@dyanstoutenburg9974

2 жыл бұрын

I love a good laugh, thank you!

Being let loose with power tools - its what old blokes dream of!

Another great video, and many thanks to you, the volunteers, and the contractors. I worked my way through college, in the '70s working on a line crew running a chain saw for weeks at a time. Long days. Thanks again from here in South Carolina, and have a Merry Christmas.

Your humor, your way of explaining.....incredible, superb!! I like it very very much, a joy for eye and ear. Thank you!!!!!! Kind greetings from The Netherlands

Love the "behind the scenes" vlogs you produce. I'm thinking the volunteers and CRT employees probably appreciate you taking the time to record what otherwise is lost in the "cruising" aspect of many narrowboaters.

Following your journey has long made me wish for a similar network of canals here in the USA. I would not hesitate to take up the lifestyle. As always, thanks for taking us along. 👏🏻👏🏻

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Thanks David, very interesting . They're doing a worthwhile job !

."...and like a stomach after a dodgy prawn.." .Ha, ha! You do have a way with words! Great video. Seeing something like this is wonderful. No other canal boat vlogger would do this type of vid. That's why your channel is the best! Those volunteers are heroes- do they get the recognition and appreciation from all the canal boaters for all their work?

How very interesting. Both the volunteers and contractor-professionals wear a lot of brightly-colored safety equipment. Kudos to the volunteers (and also to the contractors).

Thank you, your vlogs are relaxing, mesmerizing, informative and great fun. I wish we had canals in America.

Nice to see they are taking care of things. Very cool of the guys to be out and about on their own time. Id not mind that kind of retirement myself. Thanks Dave.

Seasons Greetings Dave and everyone.... An interesting video that brought back some 'old chipper memories' from my sawmill days.... Good on the volunteers eh?

Commenting for comments sake on today's nostalgic waterway amble!

I so enjoy your reports. Excellent job. Thank you!

What a fine collection of gentlemen ( and I guess women in some areas of the canal system ). This is what humans are good at. Get out, get the gear and get the job done. No fuss or fanfare, good cup of tea and a bun and togetherness doing good. I wish the UK had a huge team of graffiti vandal tag removalists. Then the circle can close.

Love to see the details of the cleanup crews...

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

😀

That was interesting. Kudos to all of the volunteers!

Great video and well documented. Good to see old people doing activities. I enjoy watching your videos. They are really worth watching.

Smart. Keeps the place neat and shows pride in ownership. Plus, helps create mulch and such for spring. Not to mention, good exercise.

The volunteers are great

The grand British character on display. Thanks, WRH

Literally cruising the cuts.

Have been waiting for an episode for awhile. Glad that I can enjoy a snack with this episode to accompany it!

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

It’s only been a fortnight since the last! 😂😂

We often wonder why seemingly simple things are either expensive or take a long time to complete, or both. Your video is a good reminder why. Training, labor, wildlife survey, etc. A lot goes into what you would think is a simple task. I'm a huge fan of your investigative style reporting! The only negative for me is that I cannot retire on your canals in your beautiful country. 😁

And another episode branching out in canal life and logging off.

Relaxing watching someone else working. Now I will need to work on my garden and winter planting. Thank you for the video.

I love the story about the tree trimming I'm glad they keep it up it's a wonderful canals I miss the neighbor's right now with all this covid we've been doing on the past 6 years I thank all those wonderful volunteers who keep our canals clear

Here we use circular saws to quickly cutting down everything. Much faster than a hedge trimmer. But you can't have people close to you. If it can cut a small tree down it can cut a foot off.

@CruisingTheCut

2 жыл бұрын

Ouch

At 19:06 - The speed! The outrageous speed! Batten down the hatches, all hands on deck, man the engines and so forth....

Great seeing people-le working with such passion to do the job right. Very rare now days. Well done guys.

I think your video could work as a recruitment aid for people wanting to materially be involved with improving the canals. The canal area shown I thought had especially manicured grassed areas around the towpath. This crew looked like they were after overhead growth hazards and encroaching brush and downed wood. I'd think the towpath area would be able to be maintained at a level safe for a specialized mower.

Another Priceless VLOG. Highly informative and awesome storytelling!

Another great interesting video thank you

The cutting crews are taking a cutting cruise on Cruising the Cut.

Most enjoyable. Be glad you were a spectator as those pole saws and gas trimmers are wonderful but a physically demanding. Those volunteers are in in good shape to being doing a couple days a week.

Thank you Mr Johns. When the one fella said when I retired I got a job with these blokes. Sounded like heaven to me. Merry Christmas.

When you announced your switch from cruising vids to other kinds of canal videos, I commented jokingly that “this wasn’t what I signed up for”. Being someone who watches more than one canal cruising channel, I have to say: then I said that jokingly and looked forward to what you would do - and what you actually do is really great background info and complements all the other cruisers very nicely! There’s so much “CRT should do this” or “they should really do some clearing up here” - and in this video you show us who actually does this: volunteers as well as contractors. And yes, of course I had an idea of how that might go - and there were hardly any surprises here. But it is a great peek into what goes on. Thanks! PS: basically agree with Paul N