Falkirk Wheel
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift near the town of Falkirk, Scotland. It connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. The Wheel opened in 2002. The two canals it serves were previously connected by a series of 11 locks, but by the 1930s these had fallen into disuse. The locks were filled in and the land built upon.
British Waterways had a plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburgh and decided to create a dramatic 21st-century landmark structure to join the canals, instead of simply recreating the historic set of locks. Designs were submitted for a boat lift to link the canals; the Falkirk Wheel design won.
The difference in height of the two canals at the wheel is 24 meters, or 79 ft, roughly equivalent to the height of an eight-story building.
Evverything was Wonnerful !!,,, except the awwwful sound of the tour boat! - a far-cry from the traditional narrowboats
+valve0radio It should be a far cry from traditional narrowboats. There is nothing traditional about the world's first and only rotating boat lift which connects the world's first ship canal (the Forth and Clyde) to The Union Canal to Edinburgh. Both built for wide boats. Sorry
I love Scottish accents! Very cool! The snapshots during the filming are kind of annoying..... But still very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, six years later! Must have been awesome to be there. The lady on the boat was very entertaining and knowledgeable. Love a Scottish accent too. Thank you.
wowser! the Falkirk Wheel is ENORMOUS.
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Thank you very much for your video ...
Quite the engineering feat!
Their macaroni is great.
I "got" your comment about "Nearer My God to Thee". So did she and she ad libbed to show that she did.
Definitely lose the fake shutter stuff.
Andrew Jackson, unavoidable with that camera.... unless I want to stop shooting video, take a still photo, and restart the video, losing several seconds or more of video in the process, I am happy that Canon designed this camera to take stills whilst shooting video, and the only trade-off is a fraction of a second glitch in the video and that 'fake shutter' sound.
bet it cost a fortune bet maintainence for it dont come cheap for it either