DIY Hydro Power Generator! Construction + Field Trip 

Congratulations to you for fulfilling your childhood goal of building a hydropower device. I enjoyed the clip a lot and was also inspired a lot by your work as always. Knowledge and skill could make a little difference to this world.

John's little video about littering can be found here btw: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gNfXON1Kgec.html

I find very admirable your philosofical ideas, maybe it will be great to write a handbook like, book with them all and some simple, basic and usefull electronic and mechanic proyects for the post apocalyptic survivor- Thanks for all the great content.

Beautiful project and congratulations on a dream fulfilled! As a tip in regards to your waterwheel - When making multi-layer wheels you want to make sure to offset each layer by a small amount so that the blades aren't synchronized, this will allow a much more consistent feed-rate on the wheel and provide more stable output to whatever it is you're wanting to power!

Thanks for helping people know my little film exists! Please give it a try fellow TPAI fans. Another great episode - that water wheel was zooming!

Great job on the video Sir ! You visitied your parents home, built a water generator & went camping in The Great Outdoors,.. "Post Apocalyptic Style!"👍 The place looks so much nicer after picking up all that trash. Some people have no respect for placing trash in its proper place! Thank you for cleaning it up. Littering is distasteful & disrespectful toward all of us! You really put a lot of work into this video,....Again, great job! Your knowledge on things & the skills you have on many different subjects are greatly appreciated!

This is awesome - especially the water wheel. Thank you for taking the time to share this!

Nice! Thanks for a trip down memory lane. We had a creek also. I'm 61 now so it was a very long time ago that I was there in our creek playing. Making a childhood dream come true is awesome!

Your tinkering expertise has inspired me. Watching you repair handtools gave me the courage to try it myself. In the past six months I have replaced the power cords of 2 drills and 2 Circular saws. And just yesterday I did a battery conversion on an older Ni-Cad drill. Now it accepts dewalt 20amp lithium batteries. Thank you for sharing your projects with the world.

Excellent video as always! The water wheel was really cool, I've never seen those dynamo hubs before.

Another fantastic video, Gerolf! This has everything I love from you! The waterwheel was a success and the clearing up and shelter building was great to see! As much as I love the Repair-A-Thon's this style of video and it's contents are very much appreciated, too! Keep up the awesome work! 👍

I've also had dreams of microhydro installations like these since childhood. Nice to see you making them real!

Loved the video! Your dedication to skill development is definitely inspiring and your cleaning up that run down ruins site was really cool also. I loved how even in a different format of video you still took something that was old, run down and decaying (the building ruins) and cleaned it up, made of functional and ALOT better to look at!

I really like the variety of project you undertake and present. I love the repair videos and they've taught me a great deal, but seeing all of the other things you're working on, the countryside, and even your parents vegetable garden is most welcome. Keep up the good work, mate :)

Resonance. Man, its brilliant!!! Thank you so much for the hard work you put in to create these videos

Really liked the vibe of this video! the music., cinematic shots, voice-over etc. Also the "story telling", the way you introduced it and explained the different steps of everything 👍

Love the video! I've been so tired of the repair-a-thons... It's great to see you making things again!

If you used a couple sheets of thin aluminum on hinges on either side of the water wheel as a flume, you could significantly increase the flow through and power production. I love camping in old abandoned structures so I really dig the camp site you made. Great job as always!

That was absolutely fascinating, thank you for sharing your creativity and Talent with us and for making such an interesting channel. I wish you every success and happiness in the future. thanks again, all the best

Thanks for taking us along this kind of reminded me of my childhood when we did the same things.

Great video and I love the variety of what you do. Glad you managed to build your hydro power device after all these years

You have my resonance my RU-vid friend. Watched and learnt much from you over the years. Superlative thoughtful dialogue in this mad world.

An ideal breakaway in beautiful surroundings. Well done for taking time to correct the carelessness of others. Thanks for taking us along.

Just discovered your channel… title instantly grabbed my attention. Love your passion for repurposing materials. Making projects out of other junk is quite satisfying to me too. Great channel and video.

Wow You've just took me back to my childhood days being out in the wild and building things with any material I could find and sometimes spending nights in caves and picking up litter of other people .Keep them coming.

Great that you fulfilled a childhood ambition with that generator. Thanks for sharing.

Look forward to seeing more and more on the water wheel as it evolves and hopefully generates real power. Keep up the great work!

Beautiful episode with the music and the while mentality behind making it. Thank you! Wished more people would think and be like you, the world would be definitely a much better place.

Another fantastic and inspiring video; this one appealing to me particularly, having worked in hydropower maintenance in the past and now working in 3D printing. All the best!

I really enjoyed this episode. The intro was so unusual I was excited to see what you might be doing, and I was not disappointed. The poncelet wheel is brilliant and the improvised bivouac looked quite comfortable in the end.

Thank you for taking us on your adventure!

New video, my weekend made.

You've just reminded me of similar things I used to do as a boy. I used to use ivy as warp and and weft to weave the structure of a tent over a low hanging branch. the gaps were filled in with leaves. Thank you for reviving a cherished but forgotten part of my childhood. Halcyon Days.

Amazing work!Your videos never fail to amaze me.This one is my favorite so far.

Great job on the video my friend. The water wheel was proof of concept and the shelter was good enough for your needs. No energy wasted. Excellent for in an emergency situation and a great show of using whatever u find lying around. 10/10.

Really interesting stuff. Thanks as always for recording your adventures!

Another excellent video and of course, very informative. The waterwheel is an excellent idea and I look forward to seeing it evolve over time.

As always nice work. I always watch your videos and enjoy what you do. The repair/build videos are excellent. I've spent my life repairing one thing or another and lucky to have been paid to do it. At 63 I still do not understand consumerism and people that throw things away rather than repair them. It is heartening to see someone your age using your skills, talents and intelligence to consider alternatives to consumption and contemplate better ways of living.

An enjoyable video. Thank you for posting these forest adventure type videos. The undershot water wheel is an intriguing project.

I really enjoy this flavour of TPAI it's interesting to see another country and hear some old stories! Great stuff!

Very inspirational. I am an assistant Scoutmaster with a scout troop. These are the kind of things we do. We cleanup trails and camp out and teach the scout cooking and skills that could help them someday. I can see these videos reaching people in the same way. The world need more people like you.

I'm really impressed with how well your little water wheel prototype worked. I was sure it would be a complete failure. Shows what I know! I also enjoyed your bushcrafting. I think it would be fun to see more of that.

Awesome video. I look forward to seeing what you do with the shelter and the generator in the future

Always love coming on the journey with you, thanks

I’m amazed at what you can find in the scrap yards, create, repair and put salvaged items to good use.

Great video and something different. Brought back memories of my childhood, as I did very similar things and felt very lucky to have had such a great childhood.

Another great episode again. Can't wait on the next part of the hydro power generator.

Another great episode, I really enjoy what you do. Keep it up. Cant wait to see how you shelter and generator improve

Wow! TPAI does Bushcraft! Thank you, this was a great episode, especially as water wheels and watermills are a long-time interest of mine (60 years +). I am really excited to see what you’re planning at your friend’s new (old) property. Anything to do with watermills is more than OK with me. A good camp in the woods too. I’d like to camp out where I used to play, but they knocked the woods down and built houses there☹️. Thank you again, Gerolf. Les in UK

Thank you for cleaning that up. Here in Oregon in the USA, it's possible to return old cans and bottles for .10 cents each. Since I ride my bike on forest roads, it's sometimes possible to make 5 dollars or so, just by picking them from ditches. This money can then be used to upgrade or buy materials for my bike.

Another fantastic video. I love the mix of shop work and bushcraft skills.

Love the fossil inspired wood carvings in your father's workshop.

Great video, one of my all time favorite TPAI videos! I love that you revisited childhood play spaces and reimagined and then lived out the childhood dreams! That is special. I, and I'm sure a great many others, would love to be able to do so! Thanks for sharing!

You truly are amazing with your projects! Keep on keeping on!

Found your channel a couple of weeks ago, and have been bingewatching all your videos, great work man

Always enjoy your videos Appreciate your talents and abilities to rebuild and repurpose a multitude of items. Thank you for bringing us along on your adventures.

I really appreciate you taking the time to clean up the trash.

tovarish, an EXCELLENT vid, well done. i had an almost identical childhood, growing up in a similar environment and undertaking the kind of projects and adventures you describe, albeit, at 70 years of age, my childhood was set in the 1950's and 60's. perhaps, some day we shall meet up and swap further childhood adventure stories. i now live in London, UK.

This is a fantastic video to watch. It's nice to know the inner child can come out. The spontaneous decisions are always the greatest. Always loved building camp's in the forest. Here in South East England, I use branches from a Willow tree, stick them in the ground and make a dome shape with a circular in the middle for a inside bonfire. The Willow grows quick and makes a natural camp. Willow grows very fast.

I liked this concept experimental, journey, vlog idea you had a story, you shared your craft and ventured into new territory thanks for sharing!

It's amazing how much the forrest in that part of Germany looks like the forrest in Pennsylvania. It makes sense that so many Dutch settled here in PA, it probably reminded them of home.

That's exactly what i am going to do before winter starts ❣️

When I was 8 I woke up one summer morning I woke up and started my day by getting my belt knife, straw hat, fishing kit(just a roll of line and some sinkers and hooks), grabbed my horse and came back a week later. The blackberry, muskmelon, and fish were fine pickings. My horse shared muskmelon with me and I picked berries to hand feed him. Roamed around the backwoods of northern Alabama that time. Found a kudzu covered collapsed house and found an old rusty axe head I ended up using with a straight stick and some of the fishing line to make a smokey fire to keep the mosquito away at night. Now I'm confident that if I were dropped off anywhere in NorAm I could survive long enough to pack out to civilisation if something happened during a hike or hunting. It has little to do with a survival mind-set, it's more that I'm not afraid of being away from cell range or stuck on a trail.

Simple hydro power has always been a dream of mine, fun to see you give it a go.

Love the Dog-o. Love the content. Keep it up!!! Always looking forward to the next one. I have always been that person that took broken things apart in an attempt to fix them. You inspire me to keep doing that. Thank You!!!

Really like the part clearing garbage and using old/dead/used material to build a functioning and nice shelter, really great!

Great job with the waterwheel! I always love watching your videos and look forward to the next. Know that your overall philosophy is very much appreciated and aligns with more people that you may realize. :)

Discovered I had missed this and it is one of your best! You are quite prescient and as it is one year almost, four vast heatwaves occur at once, fueled by "anticyclones". You prescience leads me to redouble my attention by taking notes, and your detailed descriptions are quite invaluable. You are quite a leader and quite well-accomplished, there is little here that isn't well-thought out, but some of it is sharp improvisation using what is already onsite.

Another fantastic video. I feel what you are doing is great you are preserving a vast amount of knowledge and experience for others now and in the future. There is way too much of both being lost. Please keep up the work and videos. I really appreciate all the hours you put in for videos. They give me much entertainment and are inspiring . Jim

Hey yo! I've been watching all your vids this past week. You do great work. Your videos are awesome as heck dude! Your hydro electric wheel is so cool! A fusion between old and new that will be useful into the future. Glad you were able to bring a child hood dream into the realm of reality. Super inspirational. I found your channel because I was looking up Bike trailers and now I've spent HOURS watching you wage a one man war on rust. Pure awesomeness man. Inside of you is the heart of a champion.

Great job on the generator. Thanks for showing what could be done.

Thanks for this, as well as the other episodes. I always look forward for your material.

Great video! I have always enjoyed seeing your experiments with power generation, from the windmills to the exercise bike to this. Your generator gives me some ideas for a future generator project that I can try in the stream behind my house. I also wanted to say that the Pieta statue that your father is carving looks wonderful! I hope we can see it in a future video when it is all finished!

Great stuff. Looking forward to seeing what you can do with a bigger wheel at the place your friend has recently acquired.

Great video. I think doing a few more of this type of “adventure” would be great to watch and fun to accomplish.

Really enjoyed the 3D printing portion and your usual resourcefulness! Awesome vid

These videos are always fantastic, thank you for making them

mere comments on the video can not express my admiration and gratitude for all of your efforts. so resonant with the times, we may all need to rely on our ability to do these the things you demonstrate in the times to come. staying alive with hope and inspiration, improvising with what is at hand.

Very nice video, the generator looks cool, spins faster than I expected

I loved everything about this! The bush craft part made me think of my childhood as well!

My Friend! Londonderry New Hampshire (USA) here. AVE likes your vids, and I like his, so I'll probably like yours as well! It's very cool talking about your childhood, because yours's and mine are very similar. If ya can't tie a knot, tie a lot was a phrase I told the boy scouts all the time. As long as it holds, that's the important part. I love the idea of a "portable" water wheel generator, because when I'm out in the woods, there really isn't anywhere to charge batteries and lamps. Super cool stuff.

Great job on the water wheel. Really like the shelter as well !

Serious regards to you for cleaning the forest area! You did an amazing job! As an Engineer, I came to see your water wheel generator, you did a great job of explaining and documenting your process. Overall I am just quite impressed with you and your video. I hope you get to use your backwoods shack often in the future! Best regards, PTG

Wonderful! thank you for cleaning a small part of the world, and entertaining us in the process! :)

i too find myself picking up and carrying out any garbage encountered in my travels, glad to know that spirit is still alive across the realm! thank you for sharing

Awesome. The water wheel was so cool!!

You have a tremendous ethic. Thank you for welcoming us to your adventure and reminiscince.

I;d like to thank you for sharing us with your workshop videos, but this one was amazing , you take us outside the shop and focus on the resource we may have in any place of the world . Thanks too to keep attention to the behavour of some pass by passenger , good luck keep going a little things may make a difference. Best wishes

Been watching for a couple of years and always impressed. This episode even more so

Ah, Esbit… that brings me back to my scouting days… cooking canned meals on esbit during hikes, i can still remember the smell of that stuff…

Please keep making these videos! I really enjoy watching you find awesome finds in the scrap yard and repair them to operable condition! I am a bit of a tinkerer myself and wish I had access to the kinds of scrap yards you have there in Germany, at least in my area people are not allowed to enter and buy anything that has been dropped off to be recycled, so seeing the scrap yard with all kinds of finds you have shown us is almost like a dream come true! So please keep making these videos. Unfortunately I am unable to donate money to help your channel but I can at the very least click the Like Button and share your videos with a couple of friends who enjoy doing the same things as I do and they have likely subscribed to your channel as a result. Keep up the fantastic work mein Freund, and I hope you can keep doing these videos! be well and safe, and have a merry Christmas this season!

Watching your content reminds me of an old US show called "The Colony" which was a post-apocalyptic survival type of thing. Great stuff both!

Great stuff. Hope you enjoyed your holiday.

Awesome, looking forward to the larger generator. It is also something I’ve have been thinking of building/experimenting/learning. I’d like to someday soon find a piece of land that has a creek through it.

That is a cool idea. Glad your dream came to partial fruition so far. Loved the music too!!!

I like the fact you left that clearing in the woods better than you found it, and it will be there for others to appreciate if they want to do the same.

I will look forward to the larger hydro unit. The camp out was cool. It is also nice you got to do something you have wanting to do for a long time. Cheers.

Fun video. I always enjoy seeing the "back country" in different places around the world. So often we only see the developed places and the tourist traps and we don't realize all the little pockets of wilderness that exist all around.

It's great to see someone take the time and effort to pick up someone else's trash. Bit thumbs up to you!!!

I like watching you fix and make things, Keep it up.