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Uploaded by on Jul 5, 2006

In Falkirk, Scotland a giant wheel to lift canal boats from one canal to another(@ 200 feet)without the need for many locks

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  • Fun time: Grab the movie slider with your mouse and operate the wheel yourself. Wheee!

  • It looks even better if you hum the theme from Thunderbirds when you watch it!

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  • im fi kemlin and i need tae look at tht stupid fuckin lump of metal tht serves actal no purpose and it wasny even built in scotland the biggest engineering capital

  • too slow, boring

  • I live in falkirk all my life and i aint never been on the wheel lol. I been there a million times though. My papa helped to build it tae.

  • So amazing.

    Leave it to Scotland to show us the way. =D

  • lang mae a' yr lums reek

  • I'm scottish, and ye didnae need tae speak like this, we aint wee neds. SPEAK SO EVEN OTHER SCOTS CAN UNDERSTAND :P

    I went on this. 5 minutes of sheer awsomeness :D

  • Very good. My gran is Scottish, but the local Oldham accent has rubbed off on her. It's a queer little cross between the two.

    This looks like a fine piece and example of modern engineering, but it looks bloody scary.

  • Well I was there for one week and it pissed down for seven days. Even the locals were moaning. (Argyll)!

  • I didnae ca' it Scotch I ca'd it scotch whisky tae differentiate it from the Irish stuff, that's a'.

    And no, i'm no goin' tae abuse ye for I realise that yer jyst a simple teuchter!

  • so mibi jeest mibi av goat mair irish in me than scoatish. dis that make me ignorant? or jist anither way o spellin the same word?

    uisge beatha? thats wan wiy o spellin it

    wan thing a wull never day is caw it scotch. you did. whit thi fuuuuck is scotch? drap yir troosers, pull doon yir y fronts and check oot yir wan eared spacehopper. yoo hiv goat something in commin way that.

    bayth bawbags. your turn tay abuse me noo

    PS doant be shy yir maw wisnay.

    signed

    yir da

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