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.
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
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!
@@serversurfer6169 Perhaps! They all seem staggered by the same degree and in the same sequence if that make sense, but I guess that could happen randomly.
@@your.names. That's because it's the same quarter-wheel, duplicated a dozen times, meaning each of the three sub-wheels are identical. So if one wheel was misaligned by a couple of degrees when mating it to its partner, that mismatch would be duplicated evenly around the circumference of the wheel, if that makes sense. 😅 But ideally, each wheel would be offset by a third of the inter-vane distance. So let's say you had a wheel that was 90cm in circumference with 10 vanes, giving a 9cm gap between each vane. Then when you join them up, you wanna rotate each wheel 3cm before you attach it. HTH 🤓
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!
Sometimes picking the rubbish pays for itself. I went canoeing with my son and we collected mostly plastic bottles off the lake. However we found a cigarette packed that had a few cigarettes and a £10 note in it, so bought some ice creams.
This is brilliant, i did exactly this when i was 9yrs old with an old washing machine motor. It produced enough to power a 40w bulb. I built a small hut with fully functional fireplace and chimney and put the 40w bulb to read by 🙂
I did almost the same when I was 9 years old: Me and a friend dumped an old washing machine (and a coupla TVs and a bath tub) in a creek and it's all still there, quietly rusting and leaching chemicals! It doesn't power a damned shit, there isn't even a dam ... My friend's dead, but I've been back there a coupla times, mostly tripping or stoned out of my gourd, waking up under a harsh morning sun, face stuck to the mud and in bad need of a shit but without toilet paper. Isn't life wonderful !
@@barkebaat maybe there is a very important role that you are perfect for. I bet there is a critical need that you would be one of the few if not the only one to fill. I hope your journey is fulfilling and you do some good. Later gater
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.
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!
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.
Forgot to say we have a survival weekend once a year with the scouts on some land I own. Makes me smile when I see these teenagers building shelters and filtering water. We too do not harvest live trees. All the wood is from dead and fallen trees. The only ones we cut down are bad trees that are killing the good trees.
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.
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.
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
Les, that was a crying shame to read about. I was fortunate to grow up near an enormous park with undeveloped, off-trail woodsy areas ideal for the building of Hidden Forts of various kinds. Fortunately, it's all still there, although I wonder how many kids - even in that small midwestern town 10 or 20 years behind the times of our coastal cities - still build or use forts in the woods. :/ Now I am past 60 myself, and planning to sell the house in the city (on the plains) we thought we'd retire in, so we can move to a place in the mountains - a wooded area to be sure, where it is quieter. I'm going to back to having my own "fort in the woods" at last. ;D something, something second childhood... ^_^
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 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.
Totally fascinating! Your Waterwheel design was intriguing and well made! The LEDs were totally satisfying Your philosophy is admirable as is your social conscience! I'm looking forward to your next project! All the Best from Poland!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
Dude you're inspirational, so far I've got myself a cargo bike because of you and installed several solar setups - oh and rescued and renovated a big old engineer's vice! Thanks for your efforts it is appreciated!
Ditto - I built a cargo bike and restored a vice thanks in large part to you. 500km of shopping trips not in the car and a vice made in England are a start😀
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.
Great video. I grew up next to a creek as well and remember thinking about building waterwheels, boats, bridges, and dams. Of course my accomplishments were primative but a waterwheel was the only one I never got to do. I loved playing around that creek.
I don't know why but I'm drawn to your videos. I guess I've always enjoyed repairing and tinkering with items. You truly have a great work ethic keep up the great work.
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.
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 cheered when I saw the water wheel working, I can understand the feeling. I grew up in the city, but I totally understand the fascination of somehow harnessing the power of the endless yet narrow stream of water flowing calmly
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.
As an inhabitant of a semi-arid desert region (10 to 14 inches of rain per year) it's fascinating to see your country with its flowing streams and lush landscape. Where I live the litter problem is eased a little by the fact that every bottle and can has an extra 10 cents deposit put on it, prompting people to return them to recycling centres for cash. Kudos for cleaning up after the thoughtless bastards who left that rubbish behind ! Keep working on those lashings! Love your channel!
Wow from the thumbnail I assumed you brought a bunch of stuff to setup but you actually made it with everything you found there and totally transformed it. Amazing. nice job lad
My brothers and I used to dig an underground fort in an old dump yard in the desert in Arizona. We'd use old plywood sheets for roofing and recover it with dirt. Fun times. You would've loved that dump!
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.
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 👍
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.
Hi i'm from Canada, and i do really appreciate your videos, First, i like to "see germany from the inside" . I watch a lot of "DIY"/Maker multi-project channels like yours. Almost all based in the English world. US, Australia, UK, Canada... Keep up the good work !!!!
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.
I had seen a video about a vortex generator and ever since I've been fascinated with the idea of making your own hydro electric system. One day I'd like to live off the grid. Thank you for sharing your water wheel.
I could smell the musty smell in your structure as I watched. Nice hydro generator! Looks like a good quality 3D printer. Look forward to your next mini adventure.
Given that the video was posted yesterday and at my time of viewing had almost 40K views, I'd say people are interested. I know I certainly am, I believe I've watched every video you've made, over about the last 2 years or so. Great content you make, and very much to my interest and several friends and coworkers I've recommended your channel to. Really enjoy your video!
Your undershot waterwheel is a success! No doubt some capacitors could stop the pulsing of the power. As a proof-of-concept, this was perfect! No doubt enough power could be made to perhaps charge your cellphone? I had family who lived on a river and always wanted to make my own power. So glad you were able to accomplish a childhood dream! Please keep up these efforts as they are greatly appreciated and treasured!
I've always fantasised about making a water wheel too, I don't know why that fascinated me when I was very young but I always liked the image and the idea of generating my own power and living somewhere quiet and out of the way.
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.
I hope you keep doing what you are doing. Your videos are well made, educational and entertaining. It's good to know that a kindred spirits are living in other parts of the world.
i think this small water wheel is an awesome idea, and would be very useful when camping to provide some free electric power to operate led lighting at the campsite, a laptop, charge a cell phone or used in conjunction with solar panels and a portable power station, could power any number of electronic devices, limited only by your imagination. simply spending time in the woods doing nothing more than being still and observing the life that is all around you, i have always found to be very cleansing for the soul. good on you for cleaning up the mess left by those who obviously don't deserve the privilege of enjoying the natural spaces that they seem only to value as a place to dump their trash.
I think that was brilliant. A couple of different "genres" in one. I think people don't realize the value of YT videos for immediate use and, for later, after your brain has had time to digest the content. Thank you.
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!
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.
Really enjoyed going back to your childhood as mine was very much the same, in the woods with friends(and the enemy lol) camps, stream in my garden that all friends would dam up and see how deep we could make it. Plus crouching through tunnels of the stream under paths, gardens and roads. Had lots fun and realise now how lucky I was, we were by having that all around to live in play for hours and nights much to my mother at the end of a whistle to end our day for food or it's WAY past bed times...Good times !
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
I liked the water wheel, you come probably use it a a vertical wind generator too. As with most of your videos, could to build something just from the trash and discarded stuff you find. That would add everyone's enjoyment. Lots of things can be made from old soda cans.
So, your childhood dream about a "Wasserrad" eventually became a RUclips video we all can enjoy decades later. Never give up to fore fill your dreams. :)
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.
You're not alone with this childhood dream. Nearly 20 years ago, I build an smal waterweel out of plywood and hotglue with the help of my father. Sadly without any chance for producing electricety. Now living in the north of Germany, lak of fast flowing water, my plan ist, to build an windmill instead. Just waiting to salvage used parts for it. I can't wait what cool stuf you wanna build in your friends property! Have fun! 😊
Suddenly I was stopped to know whether your father is living? It's so amazing that you got that father's workshop to use. I couldn't get one though my father had one. It was destroyed before I reach his hometown.
Most impressed that you pronounced aluminium correctly! 😊 I did chuckle when you said you couldn’t risk a fire out there in the bush, I looked around there and it’s lush green and damp forest, I think it would have been safe but, then again, fires should never be relied upon by bushwalkers/campers. If you need a fire then you’re not self reliant. The ‘all powerful’ algorithm hasn’t shown me the last few episodes so I am doing a catch up. Very impressed by the waterwheel, such great potential there. (Pardon the pun). 😅
I enjoy all of your episodes as you are an intelligent, admirable, multi-talented individual who's willing to try something new or unfamiliar! Love watching your shows!😀😀
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.
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: ruclips.net/video/gNfXON1Kgec/видео.html
hydro power generator looks great point to start - can not wait to see more of the progress
I liked this little different style video! Would love to see more of this kind with the new upcoming project you mentioned!
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
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.
This is a great idea. Maybe even as a incentive to signing up for the or donating.
The handbook idea is great! Or maybe a new series of survivor vieos?
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!
I think if you look closely at 7:04 you will see that the blades are indeed offset, albeit very slightly.
@@your.names. That seems more accidental than purposeful staggering. 🤔
@@serversurfer6169 Perhaps! They all seem staggered by the same degree and in the same sequence if that make sense, but I guess that could happen randomly.
@@your.names. That's because it's the same quarter-wheel, duplicated a dozen times, meaning each of the three sub-wheels are identical. So if one wheel was misaligned by a couple of degrees when mating it to its partner, that mismatch would be duplicated evenly around the circumference of the wheel, if that makes sense. 😅
But ideally, each wheel would be offset by a third of the inter-vane distance. So let's say you had a wheel that was 90cm in circumference with 10 vanes, giving a 9cm gap between each vane. Then when you join them up, you wanna rotate each wheel 3cm before you attach it. HTH 🤓
I agree
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!
Sometimes picking the rubbish pays for itself. I went canoeing with my son and we collected mostly plastic bottles off the lake. However we found a cigarette packed that had a few cigarettes and a £10 note in it, so bought some ice creams.
This is brilliant, i did exactly this when i was 9yrs old with an old washing machine motor. It produced enough to power a 40w bulb.
I built a small hut with fully functional fireplace and chimney and put the 40w bulb to read by 🙂
I did almost the same when I was 9 years old: Me and a friend dumped an old washing machine (and a coupla TVs and a bath tub) in a creek and it's all still there, quietly rusting and leaching chemicals! It doesn't power a damned shit, there isn't even a dam ... My friend's dead, but I've been back there a coupla times, mostly tripping or stoned out of my gourd, waking up under a harsh morning sun, face stuck to the mud and in bad need of a shit but without toilet paper. Isn't life wonderful !
They were the best of boys. They were the worst of boys.
@@barkebaat maybe there is a very important role that you are perfect for. I bet there is a critical need that you would be one of the few if not the only one to fill. I hope your journey is fulfilling and you do some good.
Later gater
@@mrwess1927 - Just a wild guess: You're American ?
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.
I've also had dreams of microhydro installations like these since childhood. Nice to see you making them real!
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!
You have my resonance my RUclips friend. Watched and learnt much from you over the years. Superlative thoughtful dialogue in this mad world.
Resonance. Man, its brilliant!!! Thank you so much for the hard work you put in to create these videos
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.
Forgot to say we have a survival weekend once a year with the scouts on some land I own. Makes me smile when I see these teenagers building shelters and filtering water. We too do not harvest live trees. All the wood is from dead and fallen trees. The only ones we cut down are bad trees that are killing the good trees.
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.
Excellent video as always! The water wheel was really cool, I've never seen those dynamo hubs before.
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.
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
Les, that was a crying shame to read about. I was fortunate to grow up near an enormous park with undeveloped, off-trail woodsy areas ideal for the building of Hidden Forts of various kinds. Fortunately, it's all still there, although I wonder how many kids - even in that small midwestern town 10 or 20 years behind the times of our coastal cities - still build or use forts in the woods. :/ Now I am past 60 myself, and planning to sell the house in the city (on the plains) we thought we'd retire in, so we can move to a place in the mountains - a wooded area to be sure, where it is quieter. I'm going to back to having my own "fort in the woods" at last. ;D something, something second childhood... ^_^
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 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.
Totally fascinating! Your Waterwheel design was intriguing and well made! The LEDs were totally satisfying
Your philosophy is admirable as is your social conscience!
I'm looking forward to your next project!
All the Best from Poland!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love the video! I've been so tired of the repair-a-thons... It's great to see you making things again!
Found your channel a couple of weeks ago, and have been bingewatching all your videos, great work man
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!
Really like the part clearing garbage and using old/dead/used material to build a functioning and nice shelter, really great!
Happy to see you are making it out to the woods. Im a fellow tinkineer. Nature really brings peace. Good luck finding tranquility.
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
An ideal breakaway in beautiful surroundings. Well done for taking time to correct the carelessness of others. Thanks for taking us along.
Love the fossil inspired wood carvings in your father's workshop.
I really enjoy this flavour of TPAI it's interesting to see another country and hear some old stories! Great stuff!
Dude you're inspirational, so far I've got myself a cargo bike because of you and installed several solar setups - oh and rescued and renovated a big old engineer's vice! Thanks for your efforts it is appreciated!
Ditto - I built a cargo bike and restored a vice thanks in large part to you. 500km of shopping trips not in the car and a vice made in England are a start😀
@@MattOckendon good for you mate, happy cycling! Have now accumulated several vices, might be becoming a bit of an addiction!
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.
Great video. I grew up next to a creek as well and remember thinking about building waterwheels, boats, bridges, and dams. Of course my accomplishments were primative but a waterwheel was the only one I never got to do. I loved playing around that creek.
I don't know why but I'm drawn to your videos. I guess I've always enjoyed repairing and tinkering with items. You truly have a great work ethic keep up the great work.
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.
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 cheered when I saw the water wheel working, I can understand the feeling. I grew up in the city, but I totally understand the fascination of somehow harnessing the power of the endless yet narrow stream of water flowing calmly
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.
i grew up on a farm and building a camp in the woods takes me back to my childhood....nice video
As an inhabitant of a semi-arid desert region (10 to 14 inches of rain per year) it's fascinating to see your country with its flowing streams and lush landscape. Where I live the litter problem is eased a little by the fact that every bottle and can has an extra 10 cents deposit put on it, prompting people to return them to recycling centres for cash. Kudos for cleaning up after the thoughtless bastards who left that rubbish behind ! Keep working on those lashings! Love your channel!
Thanks for taking us along this kind of reminded me of my childhood when we did the same things.
Wow from the thumbnail I assumed you brought a bunch of stuff to setup but you actually made it with everything you found there and totally transformed it. Amazing. nice job lad
My brothers and I used to dig an underground fort in an old dump yard in the desert in Arizona. We'd use old plywood sheets for roofing and recover it with dirt. Fun times. You would've loved that dump!
"famous last words" haha!! You are for me an example of succesful individual. It is a joy to watch your videos. A humble follower of your steps!
I’m amazed at what you can find in the scrap yards, create, repair and put salvaged items to good use.
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.
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I really appreciate you taking the time to clean up the trash.
It's great to see someone take the time and effort to pick up someone else's trash. Bit thumbs up to you!!!
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 👍
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.
Hi i'm from Canada, and i do really appreciate your videos, First, i like to "see germany from the inside" . I watch a lot of "DIY"/Maker multi-project channels like yours. Almost all based in the English world. US, Australia, UK, Canada...
Keep up the good work !!!!
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.
Dutch countryside looks very different, it is completely flat.
An enjoyable video. Thank you for posting these forest adventure type videos. The undershot water wheel is an intriguing project.
Great that you fulfilled a childhood ambition with that generator. Thanks for sharing.
I had seen a video about a vortex generator and ever since I've been fascinated with the idea of making your own hydro electric system. One day I'd like to live off the grid. Thank you for sharing your water wheel.
I could smell the musty smell in your structure as I watched. Nice hydro generator! Looks like a good quality 3D printer. Look forward to your next mini adventure.
Given that the video was posted yesterday and at my time of viewing had almost 40K views, I'd say people are interested. I know I certainly am, I believe I've watched every video you've made, over about the last 2 years or so. Great content you make, and very much to my interest and several friends and coworkers I've recommended your channel to. Really enjoy your video!
Your undershot waterwheel is a success! No doubt some capacitors could stop the pulsing of the power. As a proof-of-concept, this was perfect! No doubt enough power could be made to perhaps charge your cellphone? I had family who lived on a river and always wanted to make my own power. So glad you were able to accomplish a childhood dream! Please keep up these efforts as they are greatly appreciated and treasured!
I can't tell you how much your childhood home reminded me of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas.
I've always fantasised about making a water wheel too, I don't know why that fascinated me when I was very young but I always liked the image and the idea of generating my own power and living somewhere quiet and out of the way.
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.
That's exactly what i am going to do before winter starts ❣️
I loved everything about this!
The bush craft part made me think of my childhood as well!
I hope you keep doing what you are doing. Your videos are well made, educational and entertaining. It's good to know that a kindred spirits are living in other parts of the world.
i think this small water wheel is an awesome idea, and would be very useful when camping to provide some free electric power to operate led lighting at the campsite, a laptop, charge a cell phone or used in conjunction with solar panels and a portable power station, could power any number of electronic devices, limited only by your imagination. simply spending time in the woods doing nothing more than being still and observing the life that is all around you, i have always found to be very cleansing for the soul. good on you for cleaning up the mess left by those who obviously don't deserve the privilege of enjoying the natural spaces that they seem only to value as a place to dump their trash.
I think that was brilliant. A couple of different "genres" in one. I think people don't realize the value of YT videos for immediate use and, for later, after your brain has had time to digest the content. Thank you.
Hey Gerolf - this subject greatly interests me and your dad is an amazing artist!!!
13:31- I spotted a cool dog and clicked thumbs up instantly. Like a reflex action...
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!
Been watching for a couple of years and always impressed. This episode even more so
Camping out for a night with just my dog sounds awesome.
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.
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!
Nice video for something a little different. Very nice you took time and effort to clean up someone else's rubbish.
You have a tremendous ethic.
Thank you for welcoming us to your adventure and reminiscince.
Really enjoyed going back to your childhood as mine was very much the same, in the woods with friends(and the enemy lol) camps, stream in my garden that all friends would dam up and see how deep we could make it. Plus crouching through tunnels of the stream under paths, gardens and roads. Had lots fun and realise now how lucky I was, we were by having that all around to live in play for hours and nights much to my mother at the end of a whistle to end our day for food or it's WAY past bed times...Good times !
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
That was very cool, Glad that your water wheel worked but I suspect that you knew that it would, You are a genius, Thanks for letting us follow along.
I liked the water wheel, you come probably use it a a vertical wind generator too. As with most of your videos, could to build something just from the trash and discarded stuff you find. That would add everyone's enjoyment. Lots of things can be made from old soda cans.
Great video. I think doing a few more of this type of “adventure” would be great to watch and fun to accomplish.
I liked this concept experimental, journey, vlog idea
you had a story, you shared your craft and ventured into new territory
thanks for sharing!
So, your childhood dream about a "Wasserrad" eventually became a RUclips video we all can enjoy decades later.
Never give up to fore fill your dreams. :)
Thank you, enjoyed it a lot. Was a bit surprised that your car's trunk was not full of tools and materials and you had to buy them
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.
Something about TPAI's voice tickels the right part of my brain
This was at LEAST as Post Apocalyptic as your dump runs. Well done and thank you!
You're not alone with this childhood dream. Nearly 20 years ago, I build an smal waterweel out of plywood and hotglue with the help of my father. Sadly without any chance for producing electricety.
Now living in the north of Germany, lak of fast flowing water, my plan ist, to build an windmill instead. Just waiting to salvage used parts for it.
I can't wait what cool stuf you wanna build in your friends property! Have fun! 😊
This was AWESOME. Good work. Cant wait for the next one.
This really makes me want to go hike and pick up trash. Gonna go do that soon.
Always a pleasure and inspiration to watch what you create. From the US.
Suddenly I was stopped to know whether your father is living? It's so amazing that you got that father's workshop to use. I couldn't get one though my father had one. It was destroyed before I reach his hometown.
Most impressed that you pronounced aluminium correctly! 😊 I did chuckle when you said you couldn’t risk a fire out there in the bush, I looked around there and it’s lush green and damp forest, I think it would have been safe but, then again, fires should never be relied upon by bushwalkers/campers. If you need a fire then you’re not self reliant. The ‘all powerful’ algorithm hasn’t shown me the last few episodes so I am doing a catch up. Very impressed by the waterwheel, such great potential there. (Pardon the pun). 😅
Thank you for taking us on your adventure!
Glad to see you branching out from your shop.
I enjoy all of your episodes as you are an intelligent, admirable, multi-talented individual who's willing to try something new or unfamiliar! Love watching your shows!😀😀
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.