Falkirk Wheel

[Worldif]

Holy! Never seen this structure before, It looks awesome! Aaand, this music made me sad. :/

[JubaYoung]

Engineering FTW!

[LILCHRIS5X]

I live just up the hill from this place. Good place to go on a nice day.

[mfairuz81]

yeah....my fatrher also work there too...he is manager part

[torturekillers2006]

This is an excellent form of engineering!

[makecba]

operating this may be the most boring job in the world.

awesome piece of engineering though.

[insanic1]

to bad its ugly

[Holubstrainz]

amazing!!!

[trvlbuggy]

amazing

[FalkirkCruiser]

thats not too far from me im proud to live in falkirk 

[nogbad]

I'm so pissed off with the greedy music labels doing this - Bastards

[hovanti]

The diagrams in the beginning of this video were helpful in understanding just how this wheel works; thank you for including something I haven't seen in other videos of the wheel.

[techcafe]

it's really petty for greedy music labels, like Warner, to enforce copyright and demand that YT disable the audio - for 'personal' home videos (like the one above), where there is obviously NO PROFIT motive involved for the YouTuber who uploaded it.

oh well, i guess that's what these rapacious legal sharks get paid to do… intimidate, harass and sue innocent people.

baconology is right… fuck you Warner Music

[KayaAngelStudios]

uhh you spelled Falkirk wrong in the description

[RarianRakista]

Just because they disabled this music I am going to download the whole CD.

[fivepointsix]

@RarianRakista i like your style

[baconology]

fuck youtube and wmg and all of the internet including you

[praatafrikaanz]

@baconology What did I do to deserve such a rude comment?

[masterpiece893]

@praatafrikaanz Well shot and well explained. Am going on this in a weeks time! Just ignore the rude comments!

[timmhg]

@baconology, do not go out from your Psycho home man.

[ojogad]

quando sono stato a visitarlo era tutto ghiacciato...-11 deg!!!!

[Keallei]

I love that machine

[GoldCone123]

Wow! And it's so QUIET!

[phatmonky]

FUCK WARNER BROTHER MUSIC GROUP

[tonioloneto]

Sensacional!

[boethius27]

screw warner music group. intellectual property rights are bs.

[mkarnerfors]

That's what you think all the way up to that point you get some of your property leeched upon by someone who thought they had the right to screw your rights over.

[mensskintightlowrise]

boethius27 interesting to hear you don't mind working all your life to create something and then have it stolen and given away free to millions while you live on the dole off the taxpayer

[kev789456132]

Does the upper canal drain into the lower somewhere else, or are they totally seperate bodies of water?

[globaltraveller]

They are two separate canals - and I don't think they drain into each other elsewhere. They are connected by the Wheel at Camelon just outside Falkirk in the centre part of Scotland. The two canals are the Union Canal and the Forth and Clyde Canal

[haithy]

what is the purpose of this?

very useless I must say?

[RevVic]

for shits and giggles

[globaltraveller]

It replaces a flight of canal locks. One Canal is at a higher level than the other, which it connects to. In order to connect the canals they built this wheel rather than a set of locks.

[BTPossum]

Um.... useless?

Can you not see what it is for?

[dannybee122]

It's a prototype shopping mall lift for overweight North Americans tee hee

[fulemmaker]

lol

[claudiowalder]

Fuck you, scotish! Brazil is better than you!

[thewirrow]

hahaha

[Donz69]

I live in Falkirk, thought the wheel was cool at first, but nothing spectacular, mind you i got my wedding photo's taken there in August, and the photo's turned out quite good.

[VanityBleedsMisery]

i just got back from the falkirk wheel, just now, personally i found it really tedious, boring and dull

[GIXXER41]

The Falkirk wheel was made at the Butterley engineering works,Ripley,Derbyshire, where i work.My dad made parts of the wheel.

[praatafrikaanz]

Great piece of engineering, your dad must very satisfied to have worked on a project like this?  I know I would have been!

So, did my clip do the Wheel any justice?

[EMSLS]

Two questions only! First, what's the name of the music(if it's from a band, could you tell me the name? I would be very thankful!)?

Second, Why the water has to be pumpped out before it starts to go around?

[praatafrikaanz]

"Concerning Hobbits" from the soundtrack of the 2001 film: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring.

The song is available on iTunes.

[snappo20]

The water isn't pumped out at all - as the boat, or boats go in, they displace their own weight in water - Archimedes Principle. This means that both gondolas then weigh the same all the time, whether they have just water in, or one or two boats. They are then equally balanced, and so are very easy to move - it takes the energy required to boil 8 kettles to turn the wheel all the way up or down. I was there yesterday, very cool piece of engineering.

[EMSLS]

Sorry for the way I've exposed the question. The question I wanted to be answered in a better way is something like this "Why is the water between the two door's pumped before it starts going around?"

The other part that you have aswered I allready knew, but thanks anyways...

[Furrowbrow]

If you don't pump the water from between the gates, then it simply spills out when the wheel starts to move. I guess this isn't a problem, but it wouldn't look as nicely engineered as it does if that happened. In actual fact, they only need remove the water from between the gates at the top, so it may be more appropriate to say that they drain the water.

[navarreman1]

@EMSLS I can think of 2 reasons. The 1st is only asthetic. Wouldn't look as nice if the top portion dumped a load of water when it started to move. The 2nd, and far more important would be a method by which the gate system is checked for proper closure and /or leakage prior to the wheel beginning it's rotation. A failure of a door or seal could result in damage to the boat or in a worst case senario where the door completely fails, the boat could exit during revolution.

[galan98]

To borrow a bit of UK English, it's brilliant! On my list of things I want to see before I die.

[CameraPrincipis]

Great video, thank you.

[FBrizman89]

a beautiful montage thanx.

[GregV55]

Very nicely done.

[HollieTash]

i went there last thursday, it took 4 minutes to rotate, and my bro said ''lets count the bolts, 1 2 3..dam can we start again?'' the tunnel was frikkin long and i almost fell asleep in it! lawl..i also saw signits ( baby swans ) while coming out over the bridge, i got a vid of em :D

[Oblante]

Upload the vid! ;)

[benyobu14]

i went on this a few years back,its good fun,i believe its in the guiness book of records for somthing aswell

[KINGDOMoftheORION]

I would LOOOVE to come to Scotland and see the Falkirk Wheel in action. I live in Seattle where we just have locks. :P Maybe someday we'll have something better. Thanks for posting this!!

[praatafrikaanz]

I have just taken my parents up to see the wheel this week (Scotland rocks!!!)

I would love to see Seattle some day - seen it so many times on TV!! Very high on my 'to do' list. Thanks for your comments.

[kalichick67]

The wheel links the Forth & clyde canal to the union canal at Falkirk. This allows boats to travel between the cities of Glasgow & Edinburgh. A bit slower but far nicer than the motorway!

[CoasterCloud]

Where does the canal on top lead to? A lake?

[praatafrikaanz]

More the size of a small dam, from where more canals lead. So not entirely a dead end when you get to th etop.

[CoasterCloud]

I see.  Very interesting.

[praatafrikaanz]

The vid doesn't do it any justice; you should see it in person. AND! I had speed up the video, so needless to say the wheel turns 5X slower than in the in the video - thanks for your comments!

[vc00magc]

now that is fucking cool

[wbwvids]

Cool! I received a copy of the PowerPoint presentation also, which gives a lot of info, and figured there had to be a YT video.

I wonder how much pressure is on the "wall" on the upper segment at the end of the canal?

[rva1945]

The pressure is that of the depth, which doesn't seem to be great.

[farfallablu42]

today I received a Powerpoint presentation about this Falkirk Wheel, and I wanted to see it in action, to really understand what was going on. Your video was the best I could find, informative, peaceful music, and even I now understand how it works :-) I will send the PPS to my friends, including a link to this video.

thanks. Patrice Holland

[praatafrikaanz]

Thanks for your kind words. The wheel is more spectacular in life and it turns slower than it appears on the video.  I had to speed it up to fit the song; "Concerning Hobbits" from the soundtrack of the 2001 film: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring.

The song is available on iTunes.

[floundericiousWA]

excellent choice for music, by the way...great vid! :-)

[rlcarbonell]

Same here... from Brazil! Nicely done. Good architectual pictures in the end.

[doryzsu]

pleaaaase! what's this music???? so great :D

and the machine also...of course :D

please, anybody, tell me, who is playing and what. many thanks

[praatafrikaanz]

"Concerning Hobbits" from the soundtrack of the 2001 film: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring.

The song is available on iTunes.

[doryzsu]

tnx!! :)

[yadurbi]

ne gerek var allahaşkına mühendislikmiş.. resmen saçmalık, para ve zaman israfı mühendislik değildir, zamandan ve malzemeden kazanarak yapılan kolaylaştırıcı bilimsel çalışmalardır mühendislik bu ne şimdi bi vinç koy oraya o indirsin daha iyi resmen pullshit yani saçmalık :D hahaha gülüyorum valla.

This is all bullshit, there is no need this to sail a boat down just a creyn do this, money, material and time lost also, this is just a bullshit :D ehehe yes its real..

[AustrianHero]

This machine ist one of the greates things I've ever seen ... looks fantastic!

And the Music? Just awesome ... LotR of course :-)

[weekdayyardsale]

SMOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[barbaartjie]

As jy in soiets belangstel: Google (of youtube) bietjie op "Strépy-Thieu"

Groete

[praatafrikaanz]

"Strépy-Thieu" is baie cool. Dankie dat jy dit onder my aandeg gebring het.

[barbaartjie]

+sier

[inspiredtocreate7]

Very interesting...

[lumpyleftarm]

The most boring day out in history

[gabello]

I read in an article, that one spin only uses 1.5 kW/h energy, which is enough to boil 8 tea-kettles of water.

[dark07liberty]

fabulous engineering!

btw, wht's the lotr song called??

[1desertgirl]

Amazing, the principal is really simple,probably why no one could see it. I didnt think you could get anyting for 25.00 a day.

[Enodium]

I want to be civil engineer... NOW!

[TriskelionFactory]

It`s sooo great!

and the music, the brandywine river??

welldone!

[praatafrikaanz]

Thanks for your comment.

The song is from the soundtrack off the 2001 movie; The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring. "Concerning Hobbits" is a piece by composer Howard Shore. Available on iTunes.

[Fizzisist]

Top video of a fantastic piece of engineering!

[Doomhotdog]

5'd for hobbit music

:D