New Life for the Old Mill: Cable Mill's New Waterwheel
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Watch the process of removing the old Cable Mill waterwheel (installed in 2000) and constructing the new waterwheel in place. Kudos to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Historic Preservation Team for their incredible work!
Nice craftsmanship.
Excellent! Will see it in the fall when I come back to live there!
Can't wait to see it in person Thanksgiving. Great job on the work. 👏👍
Cool, wished I could have helped. Thanks for posting.
I saw the wheel when it was brand new. It has aged nicely over the years
Awesome job I love gristmills!
I must say they did a great job on something that was very old.
It was 18 years old...
Great work.....
Wunderbar
thanks for posting. here are some things to consider. at 3:24, i Guess someone, at some point, thought it would be a good idea to Make All the Buckets with LEAKS. a leaky bucket is an INefficient bucket. cheers
They explain why they did it when you go there. I don't remember what their reason was for doing it but it is in my mind that it had something to do with maintaining a slow speed. But I just turn the water down on my grandpa's and can make it run real slow. You can check out my waterwheel video if you like them.
So that means I've seen around 3 different wheels on that mill in My lifetime and Im only 39.
I hope the new wheel is made correct... not like the only 18 years old wheel it replaces. They should be in oak and done correctly last up to 60 to 80 years.
I am helping restore an old mill on the national register that has a water wheel. Is there a chance the park service would share plans for the wheel? Thanks!!
You have by now I presume, given the park officials a phone call, or email?
Anyone know why there are holes at the bottom of every bucket?
I understand that the water then can go slowly from top to bottom and that may be helping for starting turning the wheel but I am not quite sure about this assumption.
Exactly what you said. It helps with the motion for some water to pass to the lower buckets. Thanks for watching!
@@SmokiesLife Is this really empirically verified? I think that the power of water flowing through holes cannot make much force to help spin the wheel, maybe if the holes would be in different places at the bottoms of buckets to keep water in bucket for longer time and so make some weight. I assume that buckets cannot be filled because the same amount of water that is flowing in is flowing out because the holes are same size.
Am I missing something here? Or these water wheels are just made this way for ages and its generally known that "it just works"?
@@aleskopecky4064
Note that when the wheel started, the water spread over both sides after filling just the top couple of buckets....then, as the holes allowed more water to fill more buckets more evenly, the wheel started to spin and all the water stayed within the buckets....Whether the water falls only into one bucket or parts fall through 10 buckets, the same amount of energy gets transmitted by the same fall from the flume via the wheel... to the stream below...
So what was wrong with the old one?
Looks like the wood used got very slimy and may have been the wrong type of wood...prone to swelling, and rotting....
Love the enthusiasm guys, but where is your safety equipment ? Chainsaw and no protection?
Electric chainsaw makes ear protection more in-ear plugs than grade 5 muffs...
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk A chainsaw is a chainsaw, no matter how its driven. Google chainsaw accidents...
@@martynbuzzing3327
I agree...
However they are not using a chainsaw for felling a tree.
In this instance they were using a wood working tool to cut/plunge cut wood.
I suppose they thought they were using the right tool for the job, as safely as they thought possible considering the circumstances.
A buzzing electric toothpick-shaper seems less dangerous than a screaming 088 with a 6ft bar any day....