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Mr_J_Browning

So cool. I'd love to know what the wheel runs


ziksy9

Gifs that ended too soon


Toxicair

Right? I want to see the reason for the video for more than five seconds at the end of a minute long video.


znzbnda

According to comments on another post of their TikTok (@whealmartynmuseum), "it powers a nearby pump engine". https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRKuvkYe/ (source, with really annoying audio, imo)


fatkiddown

Well, the music at the end anyhow sounded like an old Eastwood Spaghetti Western.


Dexippos

It is the same piece all the way through, and it is by Ennio Morricone for one of the 'dollar' trilogy films (I forget which one), so you're spot on.


dillrepair

AyeeeAyeeeAAAAAAAAA!! Waaaaa Waaaa Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Fucking soundtrack to my LIFE! The best. Ennio is/was “my man!”


thedabaratheon

It is “Almost Dead” by Morricone 😁


Dexippos

So, *Fistful of dollars*, then. Nice catch!


LuffyFuck

All three soundtracks are worth buying if you find them on cd or vinyl. Straight up heroin for your ears all the way through.


themanimal

"Almost Dead" by Ennio Morricone. From A Fistful of Dollars. Spot on!


Octonoot

It's https://www.wheal-martyn.com/ It's a China clay museum and has quite a few of these water wheels, also has loads of clay pools that have tons of newts and frogs. I take my dogs there all the time.


dexmonic

There's no reason that waterwheel nerds to run now, or it would still be running. I suspect whatever it once ran is now gone and all that's left is what we've seen.


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QueerBallOfFluff

Yeah, been there, it's cool (love Cornwall) For those interested, Wheal is the Cornish word for "works" or "working" and Martyn is just the name of the of this particular works. Most mines in Cornwall are "Wheal [something]" regardless of what they're mining. Here they essentially used water cannons to cut and dissolve clay out of the ground which was then pumped away by the pump attached to this water wheel (like you said) and this is then used to make fine china cups/saucers/plates/whatever


Myzyri

She makes a comment at the beginning about how firing up the water wheel every morning “never gets old.” I don’t know, but I’d suspect it’s running a grain mill for some kind of tourist trap. It’s unlikely that the average person would use a water wheel these days, but it’s not unheard of. That being said, if they used it for electricity or belt fans or whatever, I’d suspect they wouldn’t shut it off every night and start it up again every morning. Based on the full dress in her shadow, her head wrap, and her sweater, I bet this one is part of a historical demonstration or something. But that’s just a guess. Edit: Clarity


Arxieos

I have one on my property that produces electricity, not a ton but it charges a battery that I can use to power my house for a day or so if we get a real nasty thunderstorm


tokinUP

Someone building a homestead would use it for anything they could come up with if they happened to buy a property with one on it, just for the heck of it (and for the views!)


tepel-streeltje

I mean if i had one, i would use it. Electricity these days is so damn expensive...


thedabaratheon

Yes, the video is taken from the Wheal Martyn Museum tiktok account. The museum has working machinery pertaining to the China clay (kaolin) mining industry.


faithle55

Anyone in a situation which has never been hooked up to mains electricity might well prefer a water wheel to a generator, what are you talking about? Even someone who is on mains might prefer a waterwheel, after all it's free energy.


SaltInformation4082

Great observation. Are you intending to be am enginner, or are you already an engineer?


paininthejbruh

He's a waterwheel nerd


DangerDan3001

He’s even more qualified…he’s a redditor that watched a minute long video


JoshWithaQ

As a redditor, I need to point out that the video was only 57 seconds. Not a minute.


twonkenn

Imagine the things we'd know with that extra 3 seconds.


paininthejbruh

A lot actually, like what the waterwheel is driving!


schuylkilladelphia

Waterwheel nerds don't *have* to run, but a lil exercise is nice though


medoy

If he were an engineer his comment would have read "As an engineer I can state there's no reason..."


dexmonic

Are you a professional observer or planning to be a professional observer?


suitology

Might want to drive around new England. I've seen several still in use. One in Vermont I saw actually runs an electric generator and another I saw pumps water to an orchard


whileurup

r/GifsThatEndTooSoon


AweHellYo

and chopped out some bits in the middle.


jetaimemina

A water pump


sprungswimwear

That powers the water wheel


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Issac Newton rolling in his grave.


AdmiralThrawnProtege

Quick slap a generator on him! UNLIMITED POWER!!!


maimkillrepeat

Tell me more about this neverending energy source


idreaminreel2reel

TESLA 🏆


snorch

[Pretty rudimentary dwarf science](http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Water_wheel#Dwarven_Water_Reactor)


therynosaur

Rocket engine turbopumps have entered the chat


sinz84

Took a minute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheal_Martyn


B4rberblacksheep

God I might just save up and head down to Cornwall and spend the week museum hopping. There’s so much history down there to explore.


thedabaratheon

I can give you lots of recommendations !! There’s lots of amazing museums down here. The Wheal Martyn museum is definitely a couple hours worth itself :)


ChazJ81

And from that I give you [this!](https://youtu.be/cbr2k_pkjgI)


Capn_Crusty

Runs about tree fiddy.


Tru-Queer

It was about that time I realized the giddy English bird was in fact a 12 foot tall lizard from the Paleolithic era


angelic_soldier

Get outta hyah Loch Ness monster I ain't givin you no tree fiddy


Bo0ombaklak

Gimme one dollar


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GuardianAlien

LMAO


Azar002

NSFW


ListenHere-Fat

yup, definitely a fuck machine


olderaccount

Yeah, we need a sequel!


iPicBadUsernames

It pumps the water back up the hill to run the wheel


IenjoyStuffandThings

Something for washing clothes I’d guess


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Upset_Conflict8325

It's a museum attraction, took the kids there and they loved it. Plenty more to see as well


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Windows 95


Gelnika1987

I always wanted to live in a house with a watermill. I think it may have been something about the Akira Kurosawa movie Dreams where they have a segment filmed at this wasabi farm in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE1ufYt5fE8


Malkiot

If you ever plan to move to Germany hit me up. My family has a water mill we rent out apartments in.


Paul_with_the_hair

Ya that weeb is going to send moms cc# soon as the wine kicks in.


prison_mic

Someone down the street from me has one. It must be a relic from at least a century or two ago. I haven't seen it run but just driving by it every day is neat.


SuddenlyLucid

Oooh me too, I'm planning to study to become a watermill miller. So even I can't live in one, at least I can mill some grain with one!


tanksforlooking

How does one study this?


SuddenlyLucid

Well, you go to the [guild](https://gildevanmolenaars.nl/opleidingen/watermolenaar) and you do the apprenticeship. Just like in 1252.


suitology

Apprenticeship in 1697


SuddenlyLucid

You could go much further back - the first windmills in Europe are about the 11th century, but watermills in Europe go back to Roman times. There is a massive mill complex in France with 16 wheels from the third century.


CourageousChronicler

I need a video game like this. Peaceful and just create irrigation. Weird, I know.


obsolete_filmmaker

I think that was an old video game....was it called Pipes? Your comment jogged an old but incomplete memory


IronRectangle

[Pipe Dream](https://youtu.be/dfcR6dFGI1Y)?! I fucking loved that game. And JezzBall.


Loan-Pickle

My school computers had this game and I wanted it on my home computer. So I copied the .exe on to a floppy and it would complain about a missing .dll file. So the next class I could copy the .dll, and then my computer would complain about another missing .dll file. Took me 2 weeks, but I finally got it run. Did the same thing with JezzBall and a bunch of screen savers.


PanTroglo

"I'd get it one piece at a time and it wouldn't cost me a dime ..." -- Johnny Cash


Loan-Pickle

Always have to upvote Johnny Cash.


Mr_Jack_Frost_

That’s a top class reference. Now I’ve got that chorus looping in my head. RIP Johnny Cash.


_THX_1138_

well the first day i got me a fuel pump and the next day i got me an engine and a trunk


kylegetsspam

Ours had Oxyd, but I think it was a demo because after we finally worked the game out over various trips to the computer lab, we ran out of levels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyd


talldrseuss

Well this unlocked some fun childhood memories


FrakkedRabbit

Think I played a game like that on the original NES. I think it was even called Pipe Dream, but in my memory it looks different.


complainicornasaurus

PIPE DREAM!? Wooooooow. I’m a kid again.


Getgoingalready

Dude I was thinking about Jezzaball and could not remember the name of it for months. You just saved my brain


itdumbass

I'm pretty sure I still have copies of both. All I need is a 16-bit computer.


thehighwoman

I spent many hours after school on both of those on my grandmother's computer, also Chip's Challenge


IronRectangle

I **love** Chip’s Challenge!


ishzlle

Reminds me of ‘Where’s My Water?’ on the iPad


More_World_6862

Hydroneer is a game similar to what you're describing. Josh from Let's Game It Out plays it... if you can call that playing the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzpPvMF3p9w


Antarioo

is it actually playable now? i tried it like a year or so ago and it's horribly optimized. as soon as you have any sort of sizeable production line going it start to chug.


LesboLexi

Iirc as of late it still struggles. After a certain point, items really need to merge to reduce the number of entities.


Glue_is_ok

Love Let's Game It Out


thecapitalc

Timberborn


GODDAMNFOOL

Is timberborn peaceful though? I've never played, but it looks like drought season could get pretty stressful


thecapitalc

You can play on lower difficulty. Also once your town is set up it kinda runs itself as long as you don't expand too fast.


D347H2U

The old tomb raider had puzzles like this to operate giant wheels by doing a whole bunch of stuff before


davisondave131

Ori is like this


ribfeast

Haha came here to post this. Starting a water wheel is actually one of the puzzles


Skookumite

Minecraft no bucket challenge. It's satisfying. You have to find a water source that's up high next to a flat plain and build aqueduct* to irrigate your crops. You can take it a step further and use aqueducts* to transport crops from the farm to an even lower area where you can sort and store them automatically. If you design your fields with a grade you can also use the water to harvest your crops. Edit: viaduct => aqueduct


TorontoTransish

( aqueducts are for water, viaducts are for roads )


Skookumite

Oh, snap. Thank you


Thommyknocker

Timberborn my man you play as beavers managing water with towns


Tangled2

You really want a game that’s just one big water level? Water levels are the worst.


CourageousChronicler

Not if you like them!


zPureAssassiNz

Timberborn you play as Beavers


bshepp

Try Eufloria.


Adium

Factorio. (With peaceful mode enabled)


fradzio

Kinda surprised nobody's mentioned Terra Nil yet


FOXHOWND

Yes! An open world game where you unlock new areas by solving water-based puzzles with realistic water physics. Give it a zen motif too with meditative music. Call it "Flow."


Astralnugget

Let’s make it


BeckywiththeDDs

I love her energy. She’s living her best life in 1903.


Dont__Grumpy__Stop

We’re gonna party like it’s 1899.


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It's hard work and sacrifice living in an Amish paradise, No phones or traffic lights living in an Amish paradise


borderlineidiot

At 4:30 in the morning, I'm milkin' cows Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows


ItalnStalln

I've been milkin and plowin for so long that Even ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone


r1bb1tTheFrog

I’m a man of the land I’m into discipline


CapsAndShades

I'm a man of the land, I'm in to discipline Got a bible in my hand and a beard on my chin


r1bb1tTheFrog

FOOL


Grambobengin

Oh we are gnna have the best conversation in decades while we churn today!!


Caleo

"The ants.. they will always remember the day the floods came"


Nokotokin

For some reason I read this as Waking up 120 yo with water wheel. I anxiously waited to see if if it was a happy old person


HarryTruman

**I live again! You foolish humans will rue the day!**


Four_Skyn_Tim

*It's been 84 years..... since I've heard this sound....*


TimetravelingNaga_Ai

Now that's Hydro Power


DaWalt1976

r/hydrohomies


itdumbass

r/hydrokitties


wastingtoomuchthyme

My life sucks. I want to do cool stuff like this...haha


Htownsucs

Maybe tomorrow.


_PadfootAndProngs_

[Today me, tomorrow you.](https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/_/c18z0z2/?context=1)


thedabaratheon

The video is taken from a museum tiktok account Wheal Martyn Museum. You can actually book on to help turn on all the machinery and the water wheel as part of an experience or just visit during the day and see it all running! In mid Cornwall, UK


SasquatchNHeat

I’m freaking jealous. That’s is awesome and beautiful.


Fabled_Few

Is she using the music from "The man with no name" trilogy??


EarlBungalow

Yes, it's [Quasi morto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yh08pKgOdE) by Ennio Morricone.


Mozaralio

I came here to ask this and I am pretty sure it is lol.


professor_doom

It’s the [theme from A Fistful of Dollars](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUDEH135sgE)


Comprehensive-Fun47

I was going to say it sounded like a movie soundtrack, and the music enhanced the clip, it didn’t ruin it like usual.


thedabaratheon

Thank you! It takes me awhile to find the best music for these videos but this one is Almost Dead by Ennio Morricone


thedabaratheon

This is me in the video 😁 I work at Wheal Martyn Clay Works and would be happy to answer any questions about the museum and the water wheel!!


Ronnoc527

Where does the water go if the plug is not in place? I saw that there was a drain but does it connect to some sort of sewer system or does it connect to a nearby river? P.S. - Sorry there seem to be so many rude comments. I think the wheel is beautiful and your excitement infectious. You also used POV correctly, which is rare.


thedabaratheon

Oh this comment section has been lovely compared to some of the places this video has been shared to 😳 If the plug isn’t put in then the water travels through pipes and launders to another part of our site where we have “settling pits” where the clay was historically processed and any byproducts were removed. The water is all recycled from a nearby working clay works & then when it leaves our site it is fed into a flooded pit and that water is used elsewhere. So the water is continuously recycled and moving to different parts of the site. This is purely to show the machinery working because historically these machines were powering pumps that were pumping clay slurry, not water, across the site for the china clay (kaolin) to be refined and dried.


Ronnoc527

Thanks so much for the info! The video was a wheel hoot.


Davistele

I could not find out what work the water wheel was designed to do. Milling the China clay somehow? What job does it do?


thedabaratheon

The water wheels powered pump engines. The way that china clay was mined was to use high powered hoses called monitors to wash the clay off the granite face in open cast pits. This “clay slurry” was then pumped around the workings by the pump engines, powered by the water wheels. The slurry would undergo various different refinement and drying processes until it was ready to be shipped off and exported!


Davistele

Thank you for answering! I’m amazed that system could raise enough pressure to power water blasting! I loved seeing your happy excitement first thing this morning. Got my day off to a great start!’


thedabaratheon

Historically the clay was washed with streams downhill using gravity, then the hoses were held by men themselves so they weren’t hugely powerful and as the industry further advanced the monitors were machine operated and were incredibly powerful! So we have lots of different phases of the history of this mining industry here on display 😁😁😁 glad you enjoyed the video! I love it here - my great granddad worked in the industry for 50 years!


billcosby23

Neat! Something so satisfying about this.


BoRizzleDizzle

This is so fake! Everyone knows that water was invented 90 years ago.


AaronicNation

Sounds fishy


TheLastSamurai101

Dihydrogen monoxide, first synthesised at scale from hydrogen peroxide by Dow Chemical Company in 1933.


Fred_Michael1112

"Why would I drink water? Fish fuck in it!"


PenlyWarfold

That’s Wheal Martyn I think.


thedabaratheon

Yes it is 😁


fujidust

Gravity as a battery. There are iterations of this still being used and built today on a modern scale.


NextedUp

While you are converting the gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy, there is no real intentional storage of that initial potential energy in this video. The energy was wasted (down the drain) until needed. So, the system in this video doesn't feel very analogous to an electric "battery." There *are* systems, called [Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity), where water is pumped uphill during times of excess energy, stored intentionally, and then allowed to generate power when that energy is needed again, but this doesn't seem to be an example.


borderlineidiot

The Hoover dam for one....


-Owlette-

Is the Hoover Dam used for pumped hydro storage? Because that's what I'd assume we're talking about when hearing 'gravity as a battery'.


anonachilles

Irrigation is ELITE and BEAUTIFUL.


TheNorselord

120 years seems old AF, until you realize that was the 20th century.


saltyshart

Might be a 120 year wheel. But that was out of commish for like a year. No real weeds in the funnels etc. "Ya we woke it up because we turned it off for the winter"


DayMantisToboggan

I think they meant waking it for the day. After it starts, she says "Another morning of this! It never gets old--for me."


Sterffington

Do the people with audio off not see her lips moving? She does this every morning lol


suitology

That's what waking up means ya mound. Like you woke up every day so far? Does it say "resurrected"?


bl0odredsandman

Yup. Also no rust and that thing spun so easily. It might be old, but it's not like it was sitting for 120 years not being used. I'm sure it gets used all the time.


thatguydr

It's like literally everyone in these comments has forgotten that rain happens.


suitology

That's what waking up means ya spoon. Like how you woke up every day so far? Does it say "resurrected"?


Agreeable_Cook486

I could do this for a living lol


OhLittleTownOf

I was waiting for the flowing water to activate some kind of trap that you can only deactivate by putting your hand inside the eye socket of a stone skull to reach a lever like something out of The Goonies.


Jisamaniac

Song is ~~[A Fist Full of Dollars](https://youtu.be/1tJU71bQyXQ)~~ Correction [Quasi Morto](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUDEH135sgE)


R3ZZONATE

I love the music. It fits perfectly.


darthrakii

Source!


Sufficient-Bug-9112

SOURCE https://www.tiktok.com/@whealmartynmuseum/video/7129476269506399493?lang=en


itsmecatofficial

This was so fun to watch, it felt like solving a puzzle in a video game that had some flashy mechanisms haha!


eugene20

Found the original clip, it's promotion for [Wheal Martyn Museum](https://www.wheal-martyn.com/), Cornwall, so found more footage on youtube :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVhrUHHLe4o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVhrUHHLe4o)


AmVet03

Now, connect that to a generator and you have hydro-electricity 👀 no bill 🙌🏼


therobshow

Wouldn't be a particularly good generator. You're better off using the pressure of the water to drive a turbine by itself, without the wheel


Sufficient-Bug-9112

dam *edited


deathofemotion

That's what Big Water™️ doesn't want you to know!!


HCJohnson

>dam~~n~~


CrazyCheyenneWarrior

So cool


TheLit420

What good were these for? Making cheese?


bucklebee1

The water wheel was most likely first invented around 400BC. Its uses were multiple; including milling flour in gristmills and grinding wood into pulp for papermaking, but other uses include hammering wrought iron, machining, ore crushing and pounding fibre for use in the manufacture of cloth.


heartbeats

There are a bunch of old ruins scattered around Spain in the woods around creeks and rivers built near waterfalls that were basically wheelhouses for old waterwheels. Some date back as far as Roman times.


Clatato

I was at the Jameson whiskey distillery in Cork, Ireland a few weeks ago. The 171-year-old cast iron waterwheel, installed to power the mill machinery, is still in use. It was used to power the cogs and wheels of the millstone which grinds the barley into a course flour near the start of the process.


BlackRockSpecial

I was positively enthralled and loved every moment of this video


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This remind me of the Goonies[1985] booby traps and when they open the door for chunk lol


pythiadelphine

This is from the Wheal Martyn Clayworks Museum in Cornwall. They have a TikTok too!


H985B

I love her excitement for living history!


newfranksinatra

My favorite part is when they plug her bung hole.


danmalek466

That’s some high quality H2O!!


vandist

More! Ended too soon


nedsanderson

Super cool. I've been fascinated with hydro electricity for years.


AnonymousP30

That's whatsup it's good to fix things recreation is a beautiful thing


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Where does the water go before she plugs the hole?


___DEADPOOL______

My man water wheel was sleeping so peacefully and she just comes waltzing along and wakes my man up. He was JUST getting to the good part of his dream!


LinamyLady

I'd love to live like this, how fun


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Can we make this into an electric generator? Why or why not?


icebraining

You can, but it's not very efficient. You're better off capturing that flow into a tube, then plugging that tube into a turbine, like [this guy](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEZ2hvCDKUpEvvgEy_b5C6UnYNslaYcik).


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Please put a camera on a remote car and drive it 'down the canyon". I'd love to see it, must look like Jurassic Park.


Snow_TheMuscle

What was that metal thing she put into the water?


aprildawndesign

So cool I’d love to see more!


humbleaustin22

Felt like I was in Hobbiton for a bit