• sir_pronoun@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    We could be turning this world into such a beautiful place! But what are we doing? We keep producing skinny jeans

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      10 months ago

      It’s pretty, but it was built for purely practical reasons. This is an old towpath, and the bridge is designed in such a fashion that horses towing barges can switch sides without having to unhitch.

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        10 months ago

        Why did you have to say that? Now my evening after work is gonna be spent looking at diagrams and videos of how this would work. I have no mental image of what a horse towing a barge would look like.

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          10 months ago

          Surprisingly simple! I grew up near an old towpath that was converted into a hiking trail.

          The rope configuration keeps it straight despite the horse being ‘off-center’.