Beautiful flywheel but remember the old design rule for cast iron wheels: never spin it faster than 100mph on the outer edge of the rim. This is to prevent the rim bursting open under centrifugal forces. The rim centrifugal stress is calculated from material density x linear speed squared and shouldn't exceed the max strength of the material, including a healthy safety factor. Hence the 100mph rule for cast iron. Cheers, Toby
The old designs were quite beautiful, as this flywheel is. I remember using an old chaff cutter like the one in your video when I was evacuated to Shaftsbury in Dorset in 1940. I was helping to chaff straw as I remember. The days of pitchforks, stooks of corn and hayricks. Steam and belt driven threshing machines. Happy days and memories. Then back to the London bombing in 1941 :(
Gorgeous. We have a chaff cutter at the Gold Museum where I volunteer and have used it each open day to cut dried hay, wheat or lucerne into chaff. The horses are fed with it by adding it to their nose bags while they await the next group of tourists looking for a ride on the horse drawn vehicles... Ours has a belt driven by a small steam engine and a steam boiler as part of our Steaming days - on days when steam is not available (or there is a total fire ban) we have a two cylinder Lister engine that drives the belt.
As kids, we used to hand crank one, chopping up hay for the horses feed. It was pretty hard work and we eventually fitted an old Lister D to it via a flat belt around the big cast iron wheel. No guards on it, whirling blades, flapping belt and the crank handle flying around, it seemed like we'd taken a death trap up to the next level !
yeah got one of those belt driven chaff cutters on the loft of the barn here as well. Got a electrical outlet next to it, so it was probably converted to use and electric motor to drive the belt at some point.
I sometimes feel 130 years old but I no longer spin around as smoothly as that. I am looking forward to watching this build come together. Thanks for sharing.
With a voice and demeanour like that, you should be commentating for the BBC to bring some interest back to life. Heaven knows, BBC could use it. What a delightful video. Keep going. Love the donkey in the stall in your shed. Few are lucky to have such a backdrop to their videos! Subscribed.
One of those Ahhhhhhhhhh Moments. Something about a fly wheel just turning that soothes the soul....... Brings out my inner engineer. Thanks for sharing.
We had a chaff cutter for years, the blades on the wheel slide past the edge of the feed shoot and so act in the same way as garden loppers. Over here in the east they were fed with hay to make up very short lengths known as chaff for horse feed, cheers
Easy to see where you got inspiration for your log chomper Tim! 👏 This fine piece of garden art/history should make a perfect flywheel for you. Tip of the hat to the woman giving it new life in your hands.
My husband found one of these and has it mounted in the house as a piece of ART!!! We wondered for a long time what it was. One day we were walking through a little country museum and there it was!! It was used for cutting sheaves for animal feed. The way it was set up was different than the one you showed. I don't think it is quite as old but close. He oiled it and believe me it is a real conversation piece in our modern home. We found it in Alberta Canada and we have since moved to Victoria, Canada. We love all your videos.
Incredible that the flywheel runs so true and appears to be so well balanced - both due to its date of manufacture and the fact it's been a yard ornament for who knows how long! Thank you for sharing.
I have a big bandsaw which was going to the scrapyard I saved that has curly spokes on the two bandwheels, both I and the grandchildren love to see it spin and yes it is mesmerizing, I admire your creations and how you repurpose items and give them new life. Thank you.
You seem like a really nice person! Thanks for the video and I can’t wait to see the finished steam engine and boiler all together. Very exciting stuff
When you said, "I thought you'd like to see it too", I was thinking, "Thank you, thank you!" I hope your neighbor knows how much your thousands of viewers appreciate this. Thanks to her too.
Well done! Keeping things simple and with recycling you'll get there. I noticed the flywheelstand has no rod or so between the feet of the stand. If the construction must be protected against bending you might need something down there. All triangles can handle forces in all directions because being closed.
I had the same thought, I thought a single thin rod between the legs, offset so as not to interfere with the flywheel would be discrete and keep the stand from bending. it looks surprisingly stable as it is though!
Your flywheel is fairly true on the bearings as it spins I doubt iif you will have to fiddle with it much as it seems to do well by itself sittin there a spinnin on that magnificent frame!
Their called Chaff cutters, because they chopped wheat straw or hay very finely up into chaff for animal feed. Very often made into "cattle cake" by being mixed with molasses, and finely chopped fodder beat, pressed and steamed or baked until it formed "cake". Apparently it was very good at fattening cattle up I have owned several chaff cutters over the years, and used them in anger, powered off my model traction engine. Your flywheel looks the same as the one I had made by Bentinels in Essex. My friend has a BIG one made my Maynards in Cambridgeshire that is designed to work with a threshing machine, and I started (but not got much further) making a 1/3 size model of this. Chaff cutters the size your flywheel came out of are still made and still much in use in India, in many cases still using the old Victorian design, where they are also known a sage or root cutters and they use a miniature design in the kitchen.
Beautiful bit of kit, that. I wonder how well its balanced, certainly seemed to be, but that might not matter too much if its working rotational speed isn't too high.
Beautiful historical bit of hardware. Thanks for sharing. I like your decision to not paint it, there's something beautiful about the signs of age on old pieces like that.
Get yourself oxy-acetylene or propane, it really makes taking apart these old things so much faster as the bolts come out easily. Boiled lindseedoil is good to paint rusty machines with, or old motor oil if the smell doesnt bother :) I mix 50/50 lindseedoil with pine tar and thin it out with 2stroke gasoline to my liking, it adds black colour when painting rust with it and makes really waterproof surface for a long time. I also undecoat my lawnmower with it, it makes it so that the grass does'nt stick to the underside
Boiled lindseed oil and paint thinner 50/50 also works well for any equipment with plastic on it. It will give is a nice shine again for a week or so. I did this to take photos of a older 4 wheeler that I fixed up and then one thing broke and it was out of my reach of fixing and made a lot of money selling it. Though for dull plastic heat is the best source of fixing dull plastic. I have used 50/50 diesel oil and diesel mix for coating trailer decks. Just wait a few days after coating to load or get on said trailer as it will be still slick.
Delightful! I admire and share your appreciation for what went in to making this beautiful old chunk of iron, and I look forward to seeing its new life as a flywheel. Cheers M8
So relaxing 😌 to watch you Tim we just love your channel with everything that’s going on in the world 🌎.We can turn to Tim and Sandra . With best regards and to the Donkeys and animals.🧚🧚🍀🍀😻🌍🌍🍀🐸🐸🍀🍀🍀🍀
Lovely. I'm a keen composter and also try to be as low carbon as possible, and although our electricity comes from 100% renewable sources, I still begrudge feeding little branches into my electric shredder (a Mountfield 2200w 'quiet shredder') to help my many composting systems. So I bid for one of these chaff cutters on Ebay. Sadly, although in working order, it didn't do what I wanted it to do and it was slow, difficult and inefficient, compared to the wonderful electric machine. I sold it on.
Okay that is pretty awesome. The stand is very nice and fits the wheel really good. Gives me an idea for some fancy display pieces as there are some pretty nice old wheels that are very pretty round these parts.
I know how you feel, I have a fly wheel hanging on my wall on a barring to spin it with from an old apple cider press. Where Your wheel has two spokes mine has four. Still as curvy too. As I walk by mine I spin it every so often. Just to watch it. If i give it a good wack sometimes it will spin for about 10 mins. CCHHEERRSSSSS WAY COOL
In reference to the name "Chaff Cutter", here in western Canada we always referred to chaff as the small bits of straw etc. so the name probably refers to the end product Mind you, I have a feeling that a bit of leg pulling was involved in that comment.
QUITE beautiful indeed! Hey, I do believe I owe you an email regarding that engine business from a previous video ;) sorry it's taken so long -- I should finally have that to you shortly, though...
That is very nice ! Your going to have a hard time matching the beautiful lines of that wheel , steam punk is out and it needs to reflect its golden age craftsmanship. Piston driven drivers would look perfect , steam drive to that wheel then piston from that wheel to drivers ! A 2 , 4 , 2 locomotive would be perfect !
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 yes but that’s so cool looking ! It gets my imagination going ! Lol. There’s nothing wrong in dreaming of what could be !
Balance it before use. Chances are good that it's rusted much more on one side - where it was touching the ground - and it will be lighter there. Might be harder to tell because it has so much weight in general.
This guy, Joel creates, made a video yesterday about how he used an old combustion engine from a grass chopper as a steam engine, that looked quite promising
since you have a boiler and flywheel next thing you need is an single cilender petrol engine and a gravity fed water storage tank and you're basically there man i can't wait!
Loved it, Tim, and the frame is great, but if you’re going to build a steam engine (or any piston engine), aren’t you going to need a lathe?? I’m looking forward to that addition to your workshop! Les in UK
Look for a guy on youtube named Paul Brodie. He built a steam bike. He ahs a really good video that talks about the boiler as well as the engine part. Maybe you could get some insights for your system. Good luck!!
ASMR for enginerds! Must remember to spin it the right way otherwise you will antagonize the Engine Gods! If you doubt the existence of the engine gods just ask old hand about the engines they had to fix that just started (or stopped) without any reason other than the Gods not being sated! You can usually see the offerings left out for them in the form of oily rags hung on suitable parts of nearby machinery! You can also hear the incantations made to them by those aconites (usually under their breath) trying to start particularly susceptible machines ;o)
Do you plan on taking a combustion engine and converting it to run on steam? I’ve seen some videos on it and it seems easier than other options but I don’t know how practical it really is.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news Tim, but I think you spun the flywheel the wrong way. It would look even more mesmerising if you span the the other way, or, failing that you could film it from the other side perhaps...? I hope you don't mind me sharing my expertise on this matter...? 😂🤣😂🤣😂 It is rather lovely, nonetheless.
Is it English made, although I suspect that the pattern & design suggests that it is actually Irish made, or perhaps made in England to an Irish design?
Beautiful flywheel but remember the old design rule for cast iron wheels: never spin it faster than 100mph on the outer edge of the rim. This is to prevent the rim bursting open under centrifugal forces. The rim centrifugal stress is calculated from material density x linear speed squared and shouldn't exceed the max strength of the material, including a healthy safety factor. Hence the 100mph rule for cast iron. Cheers, Toby
Centrifugal acceleration is v^2 /r where r is the radius of gyration. So a simple 'speed limit' doesn't work.
I was thinking about that but i think if they have the speed reduced they can get more Torque as well
@@donaldasayers No one's mentioned hoop stress yet either ! I'm aware of this but am no mathematician to advise on the matter :)
Hi Donald. The stress calculation I gave is for the hoop stress. I just didn't use that name. Cheers, Toby
thanks. Yes, I was aware there's a speed limit on these things, but my plans are more modest than 100mph : - )
Seems like the Irish climate has a way of ensuring that you always have a plentiful supply of rusty metal to play with!
The old designs were quite beautiful, as this flywheel is. I remember using an old chaff cutter like the one in your video when I was evacuated to Shaftsbury in Dorset in 1940. I was helping to chaff straw as I remember. The days of pitchforks, stooks of corn and hayricks. Steam and belt driven threshing machines. Happy days and memories. Then back to the London bombing in 1941 :(
My mum was evacuated too, from London. She had a good time, but I imagine it was terrifying and traumatic for many.
Gorgeous. We have a chaff cutter at the Gold Museum where I volunteer and have used it each open day to cut dried hay, wheat or lucerne into chaff. The horses are fed with it by adding it to their nose bags while they await the next group of tourists looking for a ride on the horse drawn vehicles...
Ours has a belt driven by a small steam engine and a steam boiler as part of our Steaming days - on days when steam is not available (or there is a total fire ban) we have a two cylinder Lister engine that drives the belt.
As kids, we used to hand crank one, chopping up hay for the horses feed. It was pretty hard work and we eventually fitted an old Lister D to it via a flat belt around the big cast iron wheel. No guards on it, whirling blades, flapping belt and the crank handle flying around, it seemed like we'd taken a death trap up to the next level !
yeah got one of those belt driven chaff cutters on the loft of the barn here as well. Got a electrical outlet next to it, so it was probably converted to use and electric motor to drive the belt at some point.
I sometimes feel 130 years old but I no longer spin around as smoothly as that. I am looking forward to watching this build come together. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe you just need the right sort of push
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Or better lubrication! 🥃
With a voice and demeanour like that, you should be commentating for the BBC to bring some interest back to life. Heaven knows, BBC could use it. What a delightful video. Keep going. Love the donkey in the stall in your shed. Few are lucky to have such a backdrop to their videos! Subscribed.
Thanks, Mark - welcome aboard : - )
One of those Ahhhhhhhhhh Moments. Something about a fly wheel just turning that soothes the soul....... Brings out my inner engineer. Thanks for sharing.
We had a chaff cutter for years, the blades on the wheel slide past the edge of the feed shoot and so act in the same way as garden loppers. Over here in the east they were fed with hay to make up very short lengths known as chaff for horse feed, cheers
Ah-ha! Yes, that must be the reason for the name. I was being too literal and thinking they meant cutting chaff
Mesmerising!! Beautiful 😍
Umi was mesmerised too by your voice, and Sandra's in the background!
Easy to see where you got inspiration for your log chomper Tim! 👏
This fine piece of garden art/history should make a perfect flywheel for you.
Tip of the hat to the woman giving it new life in your hands.
Chaff cutter - we had one when I was a kid, for cutting straw for fodder.
It's as much art as tool. Thank you for sharing the in-between stages. Your enthusiasm is contagious!
My husband found one of these and has it mounted in the house as a piece of ART!!! We wondered for a long time what it was. One day we were walking through a little country museum and there it was!! It was used for cutting sheaves for animal feed. The way it was set up was different than the one you showed. I don't think it is quite as old but close. He oiled it and believe me it is a real conversation piece in our modern home. We found it in Alberta Canada and we have since moved to Victoria, Canada. We love all your videos.
Our sawmill is from the same era , beautiful machine work and quality to last that long
Incredible that the flywheel runs so true and appears to be so well balanced - both due to its date of manufacture and the fact it's been a yard ornament for who knows how long! Thank you for sharing.
I have a big bandsaw which was going to the scrapyard I saved that has curly spokes on the two bandwheels, both I and the grandchildren love to see it spin and yes it is mesmerizing, I admire your creations and how you repurpose items and give them new life. Thank you.
Thanks, Steve : - )
Nice recycling of the chaff cutter wheel.............
You seem like a really nice person!
Thanks for the video and I can’t wait to see the finished steam engine and boiler all together. Very exciting stuff
The art of making things go round and round never gets boring after all these years bro. Safe travels
2:46 WOW! That is hypnotic and beautiful.
When you said, "I thought you'd like to see it too", I was thinking, "Thank you, thank you!" I hope your neighbor knows how much your thousands of viewers appreciate this. Thanks to her too.
Yep, I could watch that just going round and round, for hours. :)
Well done! Keeping things simple and with recycling you'll get there. I noticed the flywheelstand has no rod or so between the feet of the stand. If the construction must be protected against bending you might need something down there. All triangles can handle forces in all directions because being closed.
I had the same thought, I thought a single thin rod between the legs, offset so as not to interfere with the flywheel would be discrete and keep the stand from bending. it looks surprisingly stable as it is though!
It's not finished yet!
Your flywheel is fairly true on the bearings as it spins I doubt iif you will have to fiddle with it much as it seems to do well by itself sittin there a spinnin on that magnificent frame!
I love your shop, that wheel is quite elegant. Thanks for sharing.
You spin me right round, baby right round like a flywheel baby, right round - shudda been an 80’s song!! X
We'll make the video for it : - )
Their called Chaff cutters, because they chopped wheat straw or hay very finely up into chaff for animal feed. Very often made into "cattle cake" by being mixed with molasses, and finely chopped fodder beat, pressed and steamed or baked until it formed "cake". Apparently it was very good at fattening cattle up
I have owned several chaff cutters over the years, and used them in anger, powered off my model traction engine. Your flywheel looks the same as the one I had made by Bentinels in Essex.
My friend has a BIG one made my Maynards in Cambridgeshire that is designed to work with a threshing machine, and I started (but not got much further) making a 1/3 size model of this.
Chaff cutters the size your flywheel came out of are still made and still much in use in India, in many cases still using the old Victorian design, where they are also known a sage or root cutters and they use a miniature design in the kitchen.
You're right! - I was being too literal
Such an elegant flywheel.
I loved the spinning! Hypnotic!
Beautiful bit of kit, that. I wonder how well its balanced, certainly seemed to be, but that might not matter too much if its working rotational speed isn't too high.
Beautiful mount for your wheel. You will have a nice whistle as well I trust?
Beautiful historical bit of hardware. Thanks for sharing. I like your decision to not paint it, there's something beautiful about the signs of age on old pieces like that.
Ah, the simple beauty and potential power of reciprocating mass!
Rumour has it that a diesel/lube mix keeps old iron looking nice longer.
Outstanding good looking flywheel 👌👍🧐 Keep warm Cheers 👌👍🍻
A think of beauty in deed, I could watch it going round and round for hours, in fact I bet you can not walk past it with out giving it a spin?
Simple things do make me happy. Thank you for posting this video and hope to see more of your steam engine project soon.
Wonderful! Charmingly narrated and presented little film about a beautifully designed object. Thanks!
Get yourself oxy-acetylene or propane, it really makes taking apart these old things so much faster as the bolts come out easily.
Boiled lindseedoil is good to paint rusty machines with, or old motor oil if the smell doesnt bother :)
I mix 50/50 lindseedoil with pine tar and thin it out with 2stroke gasoline to my liking, it adds black colour when painting rust with it and makes really waterproof surface for a long time.
I also undecoat my lawnmower with it, it makes it so that the grass does'nt stick to the underside
Boiled lindseed oil and paint thinner 50/50 also works well for any equipment with plastic on it. It will give is a nice shine again for a week or so. I did this to take photos of a older 4 wheeler that I fixed up and then one thing broke and it was out of my reach of fixing and made a lot of money selling it. Though for dull plastic heat is the best source of fixing dull plastic.
I have used 50/50 diesel oil and diesel mix for coating trailer decks. Just wait a few days after coating to load or get on said trailer as it will be still slick.
Delightful! I admire and share your appreciation for what went in to making this beautiful old chunk of iron, and I look forward to seeing its new life as a flywheel. Cheers M8
So relaxing 😌 to watch you Tim we just love your channel with everything that’s going on in the world 🌎.We can turn to Tim and Sandra . With best regards and to the Donkeys and animals.🧚🧚🍀🍀😻🌍🌍🍀🐸🐸🍀🍀🍀🍀
Relaxing to watch, but I am not the one who needs to keep it spining whenever it slows down.
I like seeing in spin thanks for sharing
Lovely. I'm a keen composter and also try to be as low carbon as possible, and although our electricity comes from 100% renewable sources, I still begrudge feeding little branches into my electric shredder (a Mountfield 2200w 'quiet shredder') to help my many composting systems. So I bid for one of these chaff cutters on Ebay. Sadly, although in working order, it didn't do what I wanted it to do and it was slow, difficult and inefficient, compared to the wonderful electric machine. I sold it on.
My grandparents had one of these for cutting hay for their horses, it was turned by hand, I doubt if it's very well balanced, but it could be.
You span it the wrong way and I got sad, and then you span it the right way and I was happy.
Okay that is pretty awesome. The stand is very nice and fits the wheel really good. Gives me an idea for some fancy display pieces as there are some pretty nice old wheels that are very pretty round these parts.
I know how you feel, I have a fly wheel hanging on my wall on a barring to spin it with from an old apple cider press. Where Your wheel has two spokes mine has four. Still as curvy too. As I walk by mine I spin it every so often. Just to watch it. If i give it a good wack sometimes it will spin for about 10 mins. CCHHEERRSSSSS WAY COOL
It's quite mesmerizing! I feel like you might be trying to hypnotize us!
Now there's an idea : - )
Beautiful and so well balanced!
In reference to the name "Chaff Cutter", here in western Canada we always referred to chaff as the small bits of straw etc. so the name probably refers to the end product Mind you, I have a feeling that a bit of leg pulling was involved in that comment.
You're chaffing of course:)
Fantastic choice for a fly wheel, you'll also be able to make a very slow revolving engine out of that too.
The flywheel looks like a nice accent piece for the dragon.
Cool device. Only little unbalance. Nice.
Mesmerising and relaxing at the same time.
“Thanks Bridget”
Great story about the wheel! It will go nicely!
QUITE beautiful indeed!
Hey, I do believe I owe you an email regarding that engine business from a previous video ;) sorry it's taken so long -- I should finally have that to you shortly, though...
Huge respect. Great job.
I love old tech, and that looks great.
That is beautiful I want to buy one and attach it to a tiny windmill so it spins on its own all day long
And it spins true! Unbelievable
That is very nice ! Your going to have a hard time matching the beautiful lines of that wheel , steam punk is out and it needs to reflect its golden age craftsmanship. Piston driven drivers would look perfect , steam drive to that wheel then piston from that wheel to drivers ! A 2 , 4 , 2 locomotive would be perfect !
Well now, that's getting ahead of ourselves a bit Dave : - ) I'd be happy if I can get it to work as a stationary engine for a start
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 yes but that’s so cool looking ! It gets my imagination going ! Lol. There’s nothing wrong in dreaming of what could be !
Hi there that's butifull and still so well balanced
Now that is a fine flywheel!
Balance it before use. Chances are good that it's rusted much more on one side - where it was touching the ground - and it will be lighter there. Might be harder to tell because it has so much weight in general.
This wheel is esthetically pleasing for sure.
Deeply satisfying! 👍
You could blacken it with some oil and heat. This should help with rust in the future :)
What is that process called?
Very nice! It is mesmerizing as it spins!
This guy, Joel creates, made a video yesterday about how he used an old combustion engine from a grass chopper as a steam engine, that looked quite promising
i'm pretty sure any single piston petrol engine can be used as long as it isn't a two stroke or a four stroke engine
@@DatBoiOrly but six-stroke is OK?
@@hayttom no dummy only a single stroke engine will suffice that's it.
@@DatBoiOrly You'll have to explain that one to me. My understanding is that guns are the only actual single-stroke engines.
Thanks, Nik. I have a different idea, but his is good too
It's looking a bit Stanley Bagshaw and the fourteen foot wheel!
since you have a boiler and flywheel next thing you need is an single cilender petrol engine and a gravity fed water storage tank and you're basically there man i can't wait!
Snake in an exercise wheel!
yes! most satisfying to watch it spin!
Mesmerising
That is so well balanced
beautiful
Majestically magnificent
Super cool from Valparaiso Indiana U.S.
looks fantastic!
Donkeys eating furze - they must be using it to mix up/grind softer feed. Like birds use pebbles in their gizzards.
how can you not like it
We need little things to make us happy, not much we can do about the big things...
Loved it, Tim, and the frame is great, but if you’re going to build a steam engine (or any piston engine), aren’t you going to need a lathe?? I’m looking forward to that addition to your workshop! Les in UK
I have one Les, but there's just no where to set it up till the horses move. But I'm going to see how far I get without one anyway
Splendid
Poetry in motion
Use clear varnish it will seal it and leave the old look
Beeswax melted in real turpentine would make a good coating too 👍
Yes
NICE
I assume it is called a chaff cutter because it makes straw look like chaff
Yes, you're probably right. I was being too literal.
Look for a guy on youtube named Paul Brodie. He built a steam bike. He ahs a really good video that talks about the boiler as well as the engine part. Maybe you could get some insights for your system. Good luck!!
Thanks - I will
ASMR for enginerds!
Must remember to spin it the right way otherwise you will antagonize the Engine Gods!
If you doubt the existence of the engine gods just ask old hand about the engines they had to fix that just started (or stopped) without any reason other than the Gods not being sated! You can usually see the offerings left out for them in the form of oily rags hung on suitable parts of nearby machinery! You can also hear the incantations made to them by those aconites (usually under their breath) trying to start particularly susceptible machines ;o)
lovely
Sanguine.
I like this, I am a simple man.
Perhaps you would be able to make a Tesla turbine? Those are the most efficient for converting pressure into rotation.
Do you plan on taking a combustion engine and converting it to run on steam? I’ve seen some videos on it and it seems easier than other options but I don’t know how practical it really is.
That's one option - but I'm trying something else first..
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 I’m looking forward to seeing what you will be trying 👍
I hate to be the bearer of bad news Tim, but I think you spun the flywheel the wrong way. It would look even more mesmerising if you span the the other way, or, failing that you could film it from the other side perhaps...?
I hope you don't mind me sharing my expertise on this matter...? 😂🤣😂🤣😂
It is rather lovely, nonetheless.
funnily enough it spins both ways, Peter : - )
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 you win Tim :-)
Lovely!
Is it English made, although I suspect that the pattern & design suggests that it is actually Irish made, or perhaps made in England to an Irish design?
It's a shame the maker's name plate has been lost