Primitive Skills: HOW TO BUILD A WATER WHEEL // Complete After 2 months, put into TEST RUN - Ep.134 

Primitive Skills booooooooring these three videos could of been condensed into one twenty minute video max. We need more videos of you performing miracles like the forging videos. Why do you have such soft scar free hands.

your woodworking skills are wonderful ..design and engineering are a bit off on this project though .thats a lot of friction on your axle and i suspect more than water will be needed for lubrication wax might be a good one here. and with the 5-6 foot diameter wheel and that flow you wont have much power ..its never too late to make a bigger wheel but in this style it would be extremely heavy so back to the river and start digging a channel..head race with a spillway and flume point is more volume more power more drop in height..head.. more power...on the wheel end larger the diameter or volume of its buckets more power until the size of the bucket exceeds the volume of water needed to rotate it ..i wouldnt run the water into bamboo until the end or would use larger bamboo or multiple supply lines..you will need more water to make that wheel useful ..and now to spoil your day you have an over shot wheel which is about 10 % more efficient than an undershot but both are inefficient especially when compared with a turbine ..with your water coming in the top and spinning around the side and exiting out the side moving a vertical mounted shaft and propellers..they run up to about 40 % efficient i think the others are around 15 % ... it will be interesting to see how you transmit your power line shaft overhead seems most practical to me and what you can and will power forge bellows saw lathe blower fan stamp mill i guess it all depends on your plans for the property.. ceramic work metal work stone work woodwork all need tools and equipment you have tools and i would start to upgrade them with my better equipment and power so i guess ore collecting and processing stamp mill/hammer mill probably make charcoal in the kiln more limestone gathering for quicklime and cement blocks a sawmill a lathe for tool handles axles planks chisels gouges ..so much to make so many possibilities and in what order to make them ...thanks for the videos

Perhaps if you sleave the shaft rounds with a hollowed bamboo section, you could create less friction at the journals.

Don't you want to marry your other sister sicko.

@@missycooper1746 you missed the miracle. Eight minutes in a few bits of wood on the axel. A few long shots later the wheel is complete buckets and all.

I was in the first 100 people to sub 😂 our boys come a loooong way! From a simple drinking cup to the start of a village! 👍

Yes. He is a very dedicated boy, he does not go around digging hundreds of pools like others. The dedication that he puts into his work is to be admired and imitated.

I saw him doing all that you mentioned here and every time he amazes me more!

And most important, he do all that with the same shirts!

Most of it. Except the iron ingots and probably a bulk of the cement were modern substitutes. But I guess it's fine considering the other things he has done

Both he and his sister are amazing artists.

EXACTLY

Pfffft as if it isn't already

@@pk0_urBx as someone who makes a living as a blacksmith, I can say that his work is so awesome that it's hard for for non-trades people to appreciate just HOW good it is (not making any assumptions about you, just generally)

@@gabmichael8546 Seeing the scripture is quite plain on the fact the Earth is IMOVABLE and the Sun and Moon were created 2 days AFTER the Earth, so we are NOT spinning nor orbiting the Sun.. this is a load of BS. A few truths mingled with a bunch of lies doesn't make 'a word from the Creator'. It makes a deception which is the Devils handiwork.

I was thinking the same thing!

Yeah, Dude is damn near surgical with that machete

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction...

Does that mean the waterwheel is already out of beta?

Aperture science, we do what we want, because, we can

Do you think Black Mesa would hire him?

@@Penultimate_Jive Haha, fat chance.

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POWAAAAAAA

Do you mean stand powa?

Not really. Yeah, he can get it to turn, but if he tries to connect that power to anything, that wheel's going to stop turning. I can barely keep up its own momentum, and even as those rough spots wear down, it's just not efficient enough to do much work. His power hammer build was a LOT more efficient, because it would actually do the work. This won't, as-is. He need BOTH more waterflow, and a more efficient axle.

@@FornaxusCrucible aye, he’s gonna need to smooth out the axle and find himself a proper lubricant to keep it spinning

He could also run another water line right beside the one he has so there's more water pressure to turn it

If you've been a subscriber from the first video what was he doing in the first video?

@@marymussi9184 bruh

@@marymussi9184 u dont need to be an early sub to know lol u can just sort his vids by oldest and watch it

same here.

Yeah, he's so precise!

If I tried it I would end up with a pile of firewood.

@@kaiulani3044 : Ummm .... Let's not talk about those piles outback of our shops. Those are "next years firewood" curing .... that's my story, and I'm sticking to it !! Plausible denial !

I can't believe how smooth and even he can get his planks of timber using and axe, machete and hand planer HE MADE HIMSELF FROM SCRATCH! I keep thinking "is he cheating?" and then I keep seeing from prep to completion on video of fabrication. Just incredible.

@@ApprenticeGM : Check out the prohibitively expensive antique furniture world. Most of it was made with tools not much more sophisticated than what he used, and in many cases the cabinet maker did make his own tools out of necessity. Some of the best (and mot expensive) wood planes are Japanese, that are no more than a hardwood block and a sharpened thick chunk of metal. You adjust the depth of cut with a hammer, or tapping the butt of the plane against the workbench. @P. Skill's plane is styled after that type. The rest is just persistence, and attention to detail. We know from history that delicate, sophisticated, intricate, and beautiful wood art pieces have been created over and over, all over the world, using tools like that. Different shapes and sizes tools were made to attain various desired end results, but still just variations. For those old time woodworkers, they spent a little more time on the fit and finish of the tools, but they were still the same. Early Lathes were no more than a crude workbench with raised ends, two points for centers, a young tree, a piece of rope, and a crude foot pedal. They were called "spring pole lathes" They could turn out some pretty sophisticated turned items with those lathes.

gear box? whats wrong with the old method a simple old eccentric as in locomotive wheel is connected to piston rod by an off center axle ....thats called an eccentric..it is an easy way to convert rotational movement to linear movement....are you going to ask about a clutch now?

The bellows should not be the main priority. Hook the gear up to a circular metallic saw, and the progress thereafter will be on the next level!

@@mobiousenigma To be technical I was thinking a reciprocating rack and pinion set up since we are dealing with wood and simple iron hand tools. Having a gearbox would give him options to hook up different equipment. Even your locomotive eccentric, although I dont think it would work well when made out of wood.

@@TheEminemOwns Wouldnt a forge upgrade help make that circular saw? Seems like it would be difficult to make a thin and flat circle and would require more than 3 inches of heating space.

@@PaleGhost69 This water wheel was also "difficult to make" you know

An Iron ring polished smooth will wear less than wood on wood, and divert the dripping runoff water to keep it cool.

@@xkblxcripple you can't put Iron there's water

@@powergamer4968 polished and waxed stone, maybe? Or graphite grease?

I know it would be a nightmare to make, but cant he make wooden or ceramic based ball bearings? i mean. he can melt iron, the bigest problem here would make the bearings have the correct size but it would make the friction go way lowwr than wood on wood or wood on lubrificated leather

I have come to think of the alternatives offered in the comments to improve friction. Although I think the rotation would at least be improved with a dodecagonal (12 sided) design instead of octagonal. Ideally, it should be a perfect circumference, although it is more difficult to achieve and more laborious.

Maybe catch the boar and use the fat as grease.

Just using the coal as lubricant is enough!

@@Nitro8996some mushed up leaves might work as a lubricant too. They certainly cause a lot problems with slippage on our UK rail tracks !

Agreed a cap would help. However IMO the main issue besides lack of lubrication is that the axle diameter is too great. They need mortises carved into a smaller diameter. Basic physics. Oil and grease can be hard to find in the natural world. Possible sources: animal/chicken, cotton seeds, palm seeds, coconut. Also, if there are bees there is bees wax.

One thing I think is a huge advantage that helps him. Is bamboo. I would hate to be out there without it. Bamboo is a huge game changer and capable of so many benefits

@@shanemason8674Yep, saving thousands of bamboo seeds for this reason alone.

I hope to make my own shirt soon

Same

@@PrimitiveSkillsnet yehey

He showed Cotton plants at 8:48!

Yes

Ikr

Always do. This guy's one of my top 10 favorite channels

También puede usar un poco de arena de rio, así consigue dejar la madera fina por la abrasión de la arena.

Or he at least should probably sand down the joints. And build a cage around the joints so it can't hop out of track by accident.

I am surprised he diante used some sand to smooth it a little.

For real tho, I was like I would have messed up so many boards by now trying to do that..

thanks

Yo shot for the hart my bro, one of your biggest fans ,

Yes, this is a huge advancement. Now he can power multiple machines with the cam. It can drive his piston billows to power a larger furnace, run a saw mill, a grain mill, even a hammer for faster iron working. I imagine some of the next upgrades will be: A spinning wheel, a loom, an anvil, a circular saw, a blast furnace, a glass furnace.

@@FourthRoot seeing as he's growing cotton at 8:48 yeah i was thinking a loom is coming as well! we'll see what he does first! new fun and exciting episodes ahead!

He’ll definitely build a lathe. This is a precursor to gears, and a gearbox. After this, he can build a better forge blower. Throw in some bricks from some clay, and he’ll have a primitive but extremely useful Bessemer furnace, and instead of wrought iron he’ll have some actual steel. And later, he’ll even have a hydroelectric plant (This would be when he’d probably end the series, but I’d be satisfied because he harvested electricity from literally nothing but sticks and stones.)

@@potatoboy549 No, the series ends when he launches to Mars. The final episode will be titled "Primitive Gas Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket".

@@potatoboy549 A lathe is definitely belongs on the short list of next steps. To get the most out of that water wheel, he could use some machinery with roller bearings, precision milled cogs, etc. Maybe a primitive steam engine isn't that far off.

He's an alien from Agartha. You wont believe me but its true😗

i suspect given 21 centuary you are correct he has a life ..responsibilities probably family and job as well...which have nothing to do with us unless he cares to share. this is probably a plot of land family owned that stood unused because we buy food now not gather grow and process it ourselves now and he is now putting it to use again...or thats how my mind pictures it lol he is a skilled wood worker and it shows he has done a lot of carpentry in his time so thats probably his profession as for the bushcraft and other things well partly he lives there and put him into canadian shield bush he wouldnt make it or into aferican savanah or even prairie he knows his local resources making cement 2000 years or so clay ceramics a lot longer metal smiting again 2000 + years we have forgotten the non industrial ways of making things mostly but the information is still out there and only takes practice to begin creating skill we have done the hard part already inventing it its easy to adapt and use something in a way not designed

If he has a job? The mans from Vietnam and has a youtube channel with 900k subscribers and many million viewers. This guy is raking in cash and is probably in the top 1% earners of his country.

He has a family, his wife is the cameraman. Hes over 30 now and lives in Vietnam, north vietnam

And this chanel is his full-time job now

Whats funny?

@@rvnn4957 Progressively throughout his videos his shirt has had a hole in it that's been getting bigger and bigger, so now it's a joke in his community that he can craft these intricate devices but he can't fix or make a new shirt.

XD

и я его вспомнил

На английском на пичатал бы может он и увидет

@wu chi bamboo international space station)