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The working of the Falkirk Wheel in Flakirk, Scotland.

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: April 23, 2007 at 2:37 am
Author: praatafrikaanz

Length: 00:02:54
Rating: 4.80
Views: 97632

Tags: Scotland Falkirk UK "Falkirk Wheel" "Concerning Hobbits" "Lord of the Rings" "The Fellowship Ring"

Video Comments:
claudiowalder (November 2, 2008 at 4:26 pm)
Fuck you, scotish! Brazil is better than you!
praatafrikaanz (November 4, 2008 at 3:52 pm)
So much better that Filpe Massa is Formula 1 World Champion this year?

I THINK NOT!
Donz69 (October 24, 2008 at 1:09 pm)
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 (August 11, 2008 at 6:52 pm)
i just got back from the falkirk wheel, just now, personally i found it really tedious, boring and dull
GIXXER41 (July 6, 2008 at 3:06 am)
The Falkirk wheel was made at the Butterley engineering works,Ripley,Derbyshire, where i work.My dad made parts of the wheel.
praatafrikaanz (July 7, 2008 at 3:35 pm)
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 (June 26, 2008 at 10:05 pm)
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 (June 28, 2008 at 2:46 pm)
"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 (August 4, 2008 at 9:55 pm)
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 (August 5, 2008 at 12:48 am)
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...