A Unique Relic uncovered by an Abandoned Canal. 

@Paul and Rebecca Whitewick. The Monarch at that time would have been King George the Third.

Extremely very old idea, they think it came out of China and the Romans used the same idea to remove water out of mines

0:01 Do British automatic venioles not have 1 2 D on the gear selector?

Just fyi automatics have gear selection still...

A fascinating project!

A true Cottage Industry.

Brilliant 👏 just that 👏

Nice work - thank you!

I am always enthused when pieces of the industrial past or restored and put back into use. I have looked at the website but it seems to not have been updated with this latest breakthrough. Do you have a sense of how much of the canal this operational noria has added to the length of the watered canal? (Posted as a reply because YT rejected this comment as a new thread)

Nice work.

Yes but it doesn't function ! The wheel may go round but the river is too low to draw water for it's original purpose of filling the canal.

Before the Chinese sold stainless, the price of stainless was excessive. Now everyone makes it for that price.

Where I live here in Aotearoa (New Zealand) I am surrounded by pasture that is used for rearing cattle and sheep. We are at a height of almost 300 metres and the nearest water course is a stream a few miles away and about 100 meters lower. In the stream is a water ram which use the movement of the water to push a lesser amount of water up to our height. For house water we collect rain and we are never short of water but raising cattle and to a lesser extent sheep (they get much of their water from eating grass) would be impossible without the water coming up from the stream to troughs for the animals. We use the stream water for our fruit trees and vegetables. We also use it for flushing the toilets which saves the rain water for drinking and washing. The ram takes no external power and requires little maintenance.

Your last sentence was what I was trying to work out how to say! Thanks!

I was fortunate enough to see a hydraulic ram pump which was still in its original location near the village I grew up in. My father, an engineer, explained to me how it used to work. Fascinating that someone thought of that so many years ago!

Correct. George III reigned from 1760 to 1811, 51 years! You can see why the railways did the canals in. Trips that took two days could suddenly be done in 2 hours at 60km/h (35mph)! For the late Georgian period it must have been like landing on the moon was for us.

We've lost a lot of history here too. If Americas land mass was squeezed into that of England, I'm positive there'll be the random niche restorations and findings. I mean we dug tunnels through dinosaur bones! And today you can still see massive dinosaur footprints in the US. How cool is that? If America was as old as England it'd be nice different. What is cool is that in gravestones you can see who really designed entire villages. They all leave a mark of sorts its very cool, a lot of history. Perhaps even your ancestors.

Hang on it was not cherished until recently…..it was forgotten for nearly two hundred years lol

Plenty of examples of things being preserved in the US.

Right-o! The graphics and annotation made this so much easier to understand. The extra production work is appreciated!

Georgian hahaha thats it! Cheers!

It works correctly if the river level is maintained correctly

Go to Loxwood and take a boat trip on the canal. It's well worth the cost. Lovely, gentle glide through the water with plenty to see and a friendly crew to give information.

Let me know if you find anymore in the UK....

@@pwhitewick Seems like they're mostly in 3rd world, an efficient tool that requires no electricity. Simple is often best! An alternative is the Water Ram, a friend of mine ran one to pump water up 50+ feet.