Wanna pump iron? lift boats!
Central Europe means barges. We are always fascinated by the sight of fat barges drifting gently on the Rhine and other world-class big rivers in Europe. Still we had never seen something like the...
View ArticleMind the Gap
Here you can perceive the geographical gap which makes it necessary to build a lift in order to bring barges and small ships up and down. Not only the ship is lifted, but also a trough (a portion of...
View ArticleJust do it!
We are always amazed by engineering and during many holidays we chose to travel (walk or cycle you name it) along engineering monuments. Be it the levadas in Madeira, the Canal du Midi, the F60 in the...
View ArticleBeam me up, Scotty!
Of course we had to try the whole Schiffshebewerk experience, exactly like last year with the F60 (didn’t we tell you about that one?). So here we go, with a small ship we enter the liquid lift....
View ArticleFourth floor, women’s lingerie…?
There’s always an uncomfortable moment when you try to fit in a lift which is already a little bit crowded. Tip-toeing, holding in your breath to take as little as possible space, staring to the...
View ArticlePont du Gard and other wonders
We feel that iron and mechanics should need to be regarded as respectfully as stone and ancient constructions. We feel mesmerized by such technical prowess in the same way as we are when we look at...
View ArticleBigger, faster, harder!
The Niederfinow boat lift is no industrial archeology. In operation since 1937, it got recently a bit of an overhaul in order to keep it in good shape. Germans have maintenance in their genes. In 2014...
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