Giant Momentum Wheel Gets Even Bigger (And MUCH Heavier!) 

The fact it spun for so long with one push is a testament to your engineering ability, to accurate measuring and careful thought. You'd say it was luck but many of us would disagree. What a wonderful contraption!

I'm a woodworker and a land surveyor. I have a passion for geometry and precision manual work. When you got those bolts through 3 steel plates, 6 inches of wood and 3 more steel plates by banging with a hammer, you had me hooked. Subscribed.

Love seeing Tim having his own Industrial Revolution.

I like how there's just 5 minutes of the wheel spinning.

I never would've thought that the wheel would turn for so long!

Whatever device this is going to be connected to has to be very safe, once that's spinning these no stopping it in a rush lol and if it ever falls off the axle you will have to collect it from the USA

I love that you are single handedly restarting the Industrial Revolution!

Stunned... This belongs in a museum.

Tim: Props to you for finishing that wheel assembly by yourself...👍

I think the coolest part about this project is the fact you can even up the outside just by rotating the wheel with a planer/sander mounted at a spot to just shave off any access material along the outside!! This thing is turning out so cool!

You take home shop projects to a new level. Current metal prices put that wheel worth $$$$. I’m glad I’m subscribed to your channel.

I could never be bored with this. Your accent and "good-natured" commentary is a breath of fresh air. I'd love to be with you making this stuff. Cheers and good health - - -Rick from New Zealand.

Very nice engineering, perfect balance as well. I have built and fitted 5 water wheels over the last 20 years not including one's I have restored. normally different designs from your one and axle drive either steel or timber bearings (greenheart). When we balance or even up the outside of the wheel I have used a big router fixed down and the wheel turned slowly. I have been watching your channel and have really enjoyed them. Your railway brought a good few smiles. Note: I also am involved in narrow gauge (30")as the engineer (Tweeddale Heritage Railway) I look forward to the next videos

This contraption looks awesome, it kinda reminds me of a watermill. Also 23 minutes, that's fantastic. Can't wait to see the finished contraption.

I have to confess I watched all the way to the end. Another great job Tim 👍

Legend has it that to this day, the wheel still continues to spin

I've done some calculations and if that falls off @ 1000 RPM it will be going at 284 MPH LOL it's likely to knock down a house in one blow

Holy moly - was getting more and more excited until the last part was in - what a beauty!

Spin the wheel, mark the bottom then spin again. See if it lands in the same place. After you balance it, mark evenly spaced sections with numbers. Place your bets!

Mighty fine wheel you have there!

Your restraint to not just waller out the holes with a file is admirable. Need a big spud wrench for the next one though. :p

Love how you're basically reinventing the industrial revolution

Great achievement Tim. Now what are you going to call this new invention. You've got to give it a name 🤩🤩🤩🤩

This is about the phyical dimension of a whole-log chipper I saw once in a pulp mill, (back when such a thing was allowed). It was steel, weighed 12 tons and rotated at 1000 rpm. It would chip a 8 ft.x12" log in about one second. Awesome

Just awesome Tim, and beautiful.

Just one word - IMPRESSIVE!

Thank you for spinning the wheel & letting it stop in real time. It really shows the power of momentum. I'm guessing you will true up the wheel similar to how Matthias Wandel cleaned up & balanced his large wooden bandsaw.

That is one serious piece of engineering I think a lot of people don’t release the amount of work it takes just to get it to this stage looking forward to next week now

Absolutely amazed. I watched the full wheel spin out of respect for your expertise and patience. Inspirational.

watching that wheel turn from start to finish is what the internet was invented for, aside from the other thing of course.

The design and manufacture of this great wheel helps me see how our predecessors were able, with perhaps simple tools, to make the huge water wheels that drove grain mills all over the U.S., a craft I'm sure they learned from you engineering geniuses across the pond. Thanks for the unintended history lesson.

I have that exact same circular saw, and it is unstoppable. I got it for parts to repair my dad's saw. It had been sitting on top a junk pile in the rain for six months. My dad looked at it and told me to try plugging it in. Fired right up, and I've been using it for ten years now.

Wow, congratulations. That wheel is quite amazing, and quite the accomplishment.

That is an awesome project. Love it. Very nice that it spins slow and for so long. That is definitely a Giant Momentum Wheel.

Fellowship of The (big) Ring 😀

One of the most interesting chanels I have watched for awhile. Well Done......>

Well done sir! 👍 itll do 10 minutes once balanced good morning 🌞 ☁

The more I see of this build, the more I get the idea that this whole charcoal thing is just an elaborate plan to have a good excuse to build all these marvellous machines.

Best darn videos on the internet

This is serious Industrial Engineering, IKB would be proud, Tim.

And round and round it goes, there's so much energy in that wheel.

It is majestic, consider giving it a name!

This is blissfully epic! Thanks for your story telling abilities and skills at never giving up... Cheers!

So satisfying to look at how it spins and spins and spins and spins and... 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Now that ladies and Gentleman is what is know as SKILL !

Extremely impressive! It's awesome how good you are!!

Having a pedantic moment here. I thought felloe was pronounced "felly" because I had read George Sturt's book The Wheelwright's Shop. But when I looked it up, both pronunciations are listed. Also, it's late in the game, so maybe this isn't helpful, but in the design of flywheels, there are some formulas to help. The danger associated with spinning it too fast is real. Machiner's Handbook has a section on the design of flywheels. I can scan some pages if you're interested. The safe speed of a cast iron flywheel 6 ft in diameter made up of segments is 247 RPM. A safety factor of 10 is commonly used. But all of this is for cast iron, not timber with steel straps. So Proceed cautiously. Doubling the speed of rotation quadruples the stresses at the rim of the flywheel.

Holly Cow its awesome looking, medieval, steampunkt, all of the above!

Brilliant! Massive. That flywheel is so big, that I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was capable of changing The Earth's rotational speed. I anticipate that the nights will grow shorter and the days longer Real Soon Now! Cheers, Chris

good job.....wow all those blind holes...

What a job, well done.

What a piece of artwork .

That’s an impressive project!

Great project! Tip, for any future projects: grind a taper on the end of the bolts. It will make assembly so much easier.

That is amazing - what an accomplishment.

As fascinating as always. When smoothing out the outside, just think of it like a wood lathe and an electric sander to make the surface flat and circular. Look forward to the next video (with bells on).

Very satisfying, enjoyed every rev, the clicking was v. therapeutic.

Very nicely done sir! It took a bunch of math to get that right. I look forward to the time when it's completed. It will be very excited to see it being used to work. Thank you for sharing this with us. Best regards, Bob from Virginia USA

I agree. The layout and assembly takes alot of drive. I give you an "ATTABOY". Look forward to see the next edition.

I love the music she makes - a syncopated rhythm.

Please don’t ever ask to skip until the end ever again. That whole video was brilliant, hats off to you Tim & Co.

1:22 "help it keep going, whatever i ask it to do"...no problem Tim, it will keep going even if you dont ask it to. i just fear for the neighbouring village.

‘Backyard Mechaniking’, at its very finest.

That thing is incredible!

Well done sir!

A true thing of beauty!

That was truly amazing. Even if it took longer to stop I’d have watched it all the way to the end. Cheers from Naples, Florida.

Woah! The scale on the thing is enormous,

I sat and watched the whole thing with a cup of tea. It was very soothing somehow. I love what you've built, and really appreciate your joy in the use of high and low tech to find a frugal solution.

That's a nice bit of art

You so good at building 'Steam Punk' tools reminds me of Captain Nemo and the Nautilus.

Absolutely awesome, Tim!

My Husband says what you have done is remarkable we both think your a genius and so nice.We watch till the end we wonder what you are going to do next.Best wishes to you both.Love and peace and blessings.🫂🫂🎅🎅🦋🦋🌲🌲🌲🍀🍀🇮🇪

That wheel is bending the space time continuum of your barn Tim.

That's a beautiful thing. Back in the day I was involved in a contemporary art project that used a 5 ton flywheel powered up by a motorcycle minus the rear fender. We made a triangular affair that held the rear of the motorcycle off the floor via the axle and when flipped towards the flywheel pressed the rear wheel of the motorcycle against the flywheel. The motorcycle went through the gears and got the flywheel going at a tremendous pace - I can't remember the actual RPMs''s but it was pretty fast. Once up to speed the motorcycle was pushed forward away from the flywheel. The flywheel was cast in two halves and one half was 5# heavier than the other. It rotated so fast that at speed it made the frame of the flywheel hop due to the uneven weight,. We had to learn to restrict the speed so as not to destroy the gallery floor. The thing spun for hours. It was as awesome as it was scary. I looked it up, it was 3 tons. But still...

I can see an American RU-vid channel building this only to go up a mountain and roll it down to see how far it'll go or if it can slice a car in half. Good on you for finding a practical use. Written and edited and the wheel is still turning.👍🏻

My guess is that once the rim is smoothed it will be close enough to balanced, as all the other components are so accurately cut and assembled. Thinking about big flywheels on beam engines, they don't need to turn particularly quickly, just enough to provide the required momentum. Splendid work!

I have your next channel idea. A Live Wheel cam. 24 hours of Wheel!

My first time at this channel. Thar's got some ruddy good bearin's in there lad. Thoroughly enjoyed

hI. Wheely awesome!! Many thanks.

I recon that wheel is pretty well balanced as it is. I admire your perseverance Tim. You’re A “ wheely good fellow” 😂

5 mins! That's brilliant

Very well done 👍

EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT

Outstanding Sir 👌👌👍👍😇😇🍻🍻

Beautifull Tim

"Bored yet?" Nope, I'm good, Thanks😄 Hey, congrats on this amazing build.

I'm constantly blown away by what you manage to accomplish with wood and a plasma cutter!

Great Work!

Wow that band saw is an absolute beast of a machine, I don't think my big chainsaw would have cut those timbers as fast even with a new chain

Bravo! I have made longer drills by machining a cylinder on the drill, then a length of rod, drill a matching hole in that & add a smaller perpendicular hole to let the gases out. I have always brazed them to reduce the chance of distortion with welding.

That is one heck of a feat of engineering for a home project! Congratulations Tim!

Top job!

Again, fascinating! ❤️

"What has God fraught?" Tim makes a Juggernaut Stupa to go on the Jarrow March. Damn I am impressed by your build skills and fearlessness.

Very very very impressive Sir...........

Your a genius we think it’s wonderful what you have achieved you must be so proud my husband think’s your so clever and interesting with what your going to come up with next.Wishing you well and a beautiful Christmas and a wonderful New Year and love and blessings.Love to you both and Sandra hope she is getting better all the time. Love to all the animals and most of the Donkeys and Horses 🐎.and the two wonderful dogs.🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🎡🎡🎡🎡🐴🐴🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🐎🐎🐎🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

love ur videos, they really make my day when they come out

Poetry in motion.......watching that wheel spin is truly hypnotic. I guess rounding it up to true will be easy too - you won't need a lathe :)

Fabulous.