WOW! I am 56 years old, a Truck Driver for 26 years here in the U.S.A., was in the US Navy for 10 years all over the world before that, and had no idea something like this existed!!!!! (VERY different from Panama Canal! LOL) You DO learn something new every day, if you try! Thanks for sharing this video!!!! :)
Hey Michael I think you're lying to the people I lying to yourself you say you've been all over the world and you don't know something like that existed really what world were you on that you didn't know about this so when somebody goes all over the world that means they know everything that's in the world right so quit lying and why the Navy cuz the Navy needed a Few Good Men so was you ?
Honestly I was weirded out at first and annoyed, now I love it! You start looking something up before you know it your leaving about some random shit that is mind blowing! Haha! RU-vid could be the best education ever, or it can be the biggest waste of time.
I thank all of you, who have commented and subscribed to this video! Initially, this clip was meant to be shared with only a few dozen of my FB friends. I never expected it to have over 2K subscribers or over 2 million views, I never strive for such numbers. Those numbers tell me, that one doesn't have to have any spectacular videos to arouse people's interests. That people appreciate, down to earth "honest" stuff. That was my wife Kathy who walked down along with the boat and spoke to me in German and was continuously looking back and watching me, that I didn't fall in to the water :-) Not any kind of surprise, as I'm used to surveillance even at home :-) Since recently, I also fly a drone and I've posted some aerial videos. We just returned from a 3-weeks road trip in Turkey and I'll be posting some aerial clips. Could be of interest to some, to see familiar things from a different perspective. Coming Saturday the 1st of June, we'll be in Belgium for an extended weekend. I then plan to visit some similar engineering feats and do a simple video like this. Once again, I would like to thank all of you, who watched this video and liked and subscribed!
I was stationed at NAS Norfolk back in the 80s. We used to run up and down the intercoastal waterway. Had a 21 ft Sea Ray. When we went into town on the weekends and bar hop, we had 1 lock to deal with. What an experience
Thank you for that info! In addition to my normal travel videos, I'll be posting more such unusual engineering feats, so please stay tuned to this channel.
I grew up in New Jersey along a section of the former Morris canal system, and one of the long gone incline planes, only saw ancient black and white sepia toned images of what they looked like in their heyday, this is pretty awesome to see ... thanks for sharing
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I live in USA, near the now defunct Morris canal. Lots of historic remains of the canal still stand, so it’s awesome to see what it would have would like doing its operation. Thanks so much for uploading
@@pommespeter420 the elblag canal was built by the king of prussia 1825 and 1844. elblagis polish since 1945 and was german before that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal read this if you want more information. has polish language.
This, the _Oberländischer Kanal_ (including its 5 inclined-plane boat movers like this one) was built by the Kingdom of Prussia, opened in 1860 in this part of what was then East Prussia. (It wasn't within Poland until 1945, after which it was renamed the "Elbląg" canal.)
@@EduardQualls But u know. In "normal" country machine like that will be closed because safety regulations. In Poland it's still doing pretty good work.
@@Elven_de_Bieuzy_An_Ozhac-h You're wrong: Poland got this region by the "winning" powers of the 2nd world war (US, Russia, GB) in exchange to the easternmore, former polish, region Stalin "devoured". (This doesn't say anything about whether all this was correct, human - nor"wise"...)
can you imagine the engineer who thought of this explaining how this will work and his buddies saying your crazy no way that will never work.?. but it did. pretty cool.
The world is full of doubters. And if the inventive people like me only listened to them through the history of the world we wouldn’t have much more than the wheel and the trash can lids that open when you step on the pedal by the floor.
Actually I don't think it was that difficult a sale. Portages have been used for ages long before railroads. If something like that wasn't used, then it would have been necessary to build quite a few very deep locks which would have also drained a lot of water from the high side dumping into the low side every time a boat was moved. The locks would have had to be maintained and they always leak somewhat. Moving water from the leaking or seepage erodes structures. This is a much better and sane solution.
Great video, we have one of these marine railroads in Ontario, Canada on the Trent- Severn waterway, and i always thought we were unique in that. Thanks for sharing.
Is it also powered by water, like this one? In a few weeks from now, I'll be posting two more such videos on marvelous human engineering. So, stay tuned and thank you for watching!
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I’ve seen other videos of these narrow canals that showed how they coped with a mountain and needing to get to the waterway at the top. They just started building short locks, one right against the next, and when they finished they 11 or 12 locks! Interesting!
There is an even bigger inclined boat lift in Roncquières, Belgium. It was built for the coal and steel industry in the french part of Belgium, but since they stopped mining coal in Belgium it was almost never used for that purpose. Sometimes it is called “grand traveaux inutile” or big useless construction. :)
Gertjan Van Liedekerke, en de scheepslift van Strépy-Thieu... Werken begonnen in 1982, eerste schip werd ‘gelift’ in... 2002. Prijskaartje: 652.000.000€, vier keer meer dan de oorspronkelijke kostenraming van 150.000.000€... Maar omdat het wegverkeer hopeloos vast geraakt, blijkt de lift toch nog nuttig te zijn. (ik laat de vertaling aan jou over 😄)
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It was my pleasure sharing this experience with you. Soon, I'll be posting two more such videos on marvelous human engineering. So, stay tuned and thank you for watching!
It was my pleasure sharing this experience with you. Soon, I'll be posting two more such videos on marvelous human engineering. So, stay tuned and thank you for watching!
Rhys Hughes it’s called a “portage”, and it appears to be achieved by way of a funicular. In this instance the carriage loaded with the boat is obviously heavier than the empty carriage, so gravity does the work. If both carriages had boats gravity would still contribute. The only force that one would need to add would be any positive difference in weight of the ascending carriage. In other words, if the carriage running uphill weighs more than the one running down hill. This is actually a sophisticated way of doing this if one doesn’t want to expend the resources to build a lock.
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@@mvashton Also very nice but I imagine much more costly to build, maintain and operate) then a set of railway tracks, some Gynormous wheels and pulleys and some steel cable... The Polish nailed it on this one...
El itsmo de Chiapas lo diseñe de está manera pero los gobiernos no les interesa.ni a los ambientalistas vendidos.con los estados undidos.que no quieren que una nación propere.rartas.anglosajonas.pero un día será cuando los de Oaxaca y Chiapas despierten espero que no sea muy tarde.saludos su ingetonto.
I traveled around Poland for 5 weeks last year. Lovely people, really very good. I saw Bison. I hiked in the Carpathians. I went into the amazing world heritage salt mine. I saw Schindler’s factory in beautiful Wroclaw. Very nice country. I’m glad Poland has peace now after such difficult history.
@@renekleppel8569 Your land, you say? Probably therfore German's in East Prussia forbid polish language in schools and public places. Speaking about adulation deficit. Wissen Sie was Größenwahn ist?
@@BasementEngineer And what do you expect, exactly? After centuries of extortion and being punished just for using their native language,people should apply their self's and watch unwillingly how their heritage, land and identity is being destroyed and their children are being turned in little German's and they should stay calm and polite? Get a grip, man. Besides, German's murdered not only other nationalities, they also killed their own children and sick people. I'm sure, you have heard of action T4. Let that be the measure here. I often work I'm Germany. I am a train driver and I visit many places in Germany. I like the people there. I speak their language. But i know what their parents did. Read something about hospital in Vienna called "Am Spiegelgrunf" Stay safe, man.
My eyes, 62.5years old... lol.. have never beheld a sight like this. Okay, maybe one other time in Old Germany, where I took pics of one canal built perpendicular to another canal . Like a massive Plus + sign. Here, makes me curious, why the earth was just not removed... to connect the canals.
I think this kind of alternating carrier is called a jigback system where the rising carrier is balanced by the descending one, like elevators and counterweights or gondollas ascending mountains. Thus the load is partly ballanced by the one going down on the opposite run. But the fact this was built by Prussia in the 19th century is impressive!
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Couldn't do that in the UK. Health & Safety Executive would find a thousand things wrong, and once all those problems were sorted out the government would tax the hell out of it and make it financially impossible anyway.
É sou o NÔMADE e escrevo para que você possa ficar com a butuca ligada, quando alguém pensa tudo e satisfatorio no resultado de trabalho final, nosso pais TUPINIQUIM. !! Muitos só pensaram em roubar todo projeto gastam muito é uma vergonha todo final de obra muitas das quais são abandonadas, e a roubalheira sumiu com a verba, muitos dos trabalhadores recorrem a justiça, é uma sacanagem ao trabalhador muitas vezes enganados perdem o que teriam a receber,, os patrões e empregados, sempre em desacordo.
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Beyond Belief for the same reason this mechanism is necessary here. The water level on one side of a land mass is higher than it is on the other side of the land mass. In this case, the boats are relatively small and about the same size, so this system works here. Locks can raise and lower much larger boats and even very large ships, as well as small boats.
@@hobbyhermit66 Thanks for the reply. As a practically minded man, do you think it is possible to practically demonstrate a body of water naturally conforming to the exterior of shapes? I'm a skeptic you see, and I don't think that claim can be repeatedly demonstrated verified or falsified as all claims of objective fact of course should be. A practical example of a body of water on a gradient that doesn't flow to points of lower elevation would be greatly appreciated too if you have any. Cheers
The Morris Canal in NJ had dozens of these inclined planes as boats travelled across the state from the Delaware River in Phillipsburg to the Newark Bay. The planes were powered by water power via Scotch turbines
Yes, the constructor of these canal visited the Morris canal and got some inspiration there, but found this diffrent solution. The whole canal uses 5 of this cableways.
Boss man: we need to get boats down this hill Designer: (in a sarcastic voice) why don't we just pick the boat up and but it down there? Boss man: there's an idea
There was a series of inclined planes to cross a small mountain range, back when goods were widely transported by canal boats, here in central Pennsylvania where I live. They are all long gone though, with the exception a few museums around and traces of the old rail beds.
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@@scottgrzymkowski to są tzw "pochylenie" na kanale między Elblągiem a Ostródą. Ponieważ poziom terenu się podnosi w tym właśnie miejscu, zamiast budować śluzę wymyślono, że małe statki pływające tym kanałem będą wciągane na takich wagonikach na wyższy poziom. To jedno chyba z dwóch miejsc na świecie (jeśli dobrze pamiętam), gdzie użyto takiego właśnie rozwiązania. Jest to jedna z atrakcji mojego regionu (pochodzę z Elbląga) i ewenement na skalę Światową.
Let me fill in for ol' Tommy Scotty. "I'm standing in Poland near one of the most creative ways [pause] to move a boat [pause] over a hill. [fast] I know what you're thinking: why not just get rid of the hill? [slow] That's where the story gets interesting..."
Not sure where it is, but I think there's something similar in the USA or in Canada. There's (or was?) also something similar in Russia, like a lock on an oversized railroad with a turntable at the top.
