Riding The Falkirk Wheel | ROTATING Boat Lift In Scotland!
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- čas přidán 22. 09. 2020
- In this adventure I continue my tour around Scotland with a visit to the Falkirk Wheel! This impressive rotating boat lift opened in 2002 and connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. Along with sharing various different facts about the wheel, I also share footage of it in operation as it rotates. I also enjoy a 60 minute tour of the canal including a ride on the Falkirk Wheel itself!
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It's surprisingly energy efficient as well. The Falkirk Wheel uses only 1,5 kWh per half a turn. That's not much, considering the enormous weight it's rotating.
My girlfriend and I (we're Dutchies) rented a yacht three years ago and travelled from Fort William to Edinburgh and back, crossing some stunning lochs. Ofcourse, we *had* to visit the Falkirk Wheel as well. Especially going down the wheel is a surreal experience.
It sure is awesome to see!
Have seen this beautiful and amazing structure on tv shows while growing up, brilliant tourist attraction that I hope to one day in future visit & experience. Thanks for recording, uploading and sharing your experience & look forward to in future see more videos like this. 😀👍
So it's like an elevated canal. That's really cool! I love the design of it.
It was designed by a Mr Kettle. Its to resemble the bones and fins of a whale.
I miss Scotland so much. Especially exploring the loch and mountain trails in the depths of the highlands.
Such a beautiful country
lmao @ the pigeon getting a lift at 4:46.
One of my favourite landmarks, so simple yet so amazing at the same time 😃
I had never seen this thing until I randomly stumbled across it on google earth. So I had to find a video and yours it is.
Only uses the same power as a toaster 😂 it only needs a little push at the top to carry it down
Or 2 kettles. Same name as the guy who designed it. A Mr Kettle.
Thanks your video was superior to the one on tv. Very clear and precise demonstration.
Thank you
Definitely the most cool lock in the world! I'd never even knew there was such a thing. Till I lived in South Carolina USA and we went out on my husband's boat and we were on the lake and gone inside this massive cement structure that totally closed around us and lowered us down to the river.. it was just so cool I just never had experienced anything like that fun! Thank you so much for doing this. what an awesome structure! Love both of your channels!💗
It's canals, lochs are totally different and just the Gaelic Scottish & Irish term for lakes.
@@stewartjdrummond are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about the structure not the water!
@@ssue4q Wires crossed, I now see you meant locks as in canal transfers which the wheel replaced. Sorry.
@@stewartjdrummond 😆 that's 👌 different terminology for different parts of the world! Yeah in the u.s. we call them locks! lol
Nice one mate, thanks for the tour
Completely agree. It’s a great piece of engineering and it’s fab just to watch it in operation. We’ve not done the boat trip Just watched it while down at the park area nearby
It sure is!
Another great AdventureShawn Vlog Shawn mate 👍🏻
We visited here about 5 years ago as I’d seen it on one of the kids tv shows and we were not disappointed. The trip was great fun and very informative.
Personally I love the design both technically but also visually and the simplicity behind such an incredible piece of practical engineering is awesome.
If you are visiting Scotland I’d highly recommend a visit. The wheel is a 10-15 minute walk to the station
That is so damn cool! It never ceases to amaze me the different things you find and show us on both your channels. Thank you.
Thank you!
How interesting!
never heard of that thing until now! i thought that was going to lift that boat up onto a roadway? i was like WHAT THE HELL?? i didn't realize there was a waterway up there on top! what a very unique and interesting piece of machinery! that's like ultra cool! once again ADVENTURE SHAWN taking me places i've never been b4! outstanding!! thank you so much!!
Very great floating wheel which can carry water
Thank you for watching!
Just seen your Kelpie video. We saw the Falkirk wheel yesterday too. We live about 2 miles from the other boat lift which is Anderton near Northwich in Cheshire. Maybe you should visit that one too Shawn 😁.
Amazing pieces of engineering.
Never been on one like this but it certainly looks interesting!
Oh it's beautiful❤️😊. I live so close to it so seen it loads. It's the place I take my son also if I need some air or exercise. When I was in lock down this is where I done my 1 exercise a day.
Obviously you haven’t , cause it’s only one in world
Interesting Fact. The boat lift carries 600 tones up 27 meters and uses the same amount of energy as is used to boil a kettle.
Only just discovered this channel after linking from your Inverness Fair video. I actually stay only just over 1 mile from the wheel, and you can see my village at several points in the video! I do a lot of running and cycling, the path you're standing on at the end is where I do my running hill-rep training, and I cycle the various paths around the canal network on an almost daily basis. Would have been really funny if I'd bumped into you, think I'd have had a fan-boy moment :-) Glad you enjoyed your trip up to our wee part of the world, the Wheel really is an amazing feat of engineering (particularly the fact it only takes 8 kettles worth of power to rotate, thanks to Archimedes principle), looking forward to seeing the NC500 series of videos
Thanks for sharing!
Hi shawn really enjoyed this what a great idea amazing. Thankyou for sharing with us as always love Tracey xxxxxx
Shawn is back . Yay just watched him in Germany. Now in Scotland lol hehe . Love Scotland thanks 4 sharing Mr themepark
Thanks for a new addition to the bucket list! 🍻
Great video Shawn, although Falkirk is pronounced 'fall-kirk'. Glad you enjoyed it.
That’s the coolest thing..Awesome indeed!!
Fascinating piece of engineering, so impressive!
The other boat lift in the UK is the Anderton boat lift in Northwich, Cheshire. I happen to live 10 minutes away from it!
This is the only rotating boat lift. End of the day it always rotates and ends on an even number. Goes one way then the other.
Interesting structure Shawn. Beautiful scenery too. Great vlog.
Wow we have never seen anything like that before. Great video. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hey bud, great video. Shame you were at the wheel on my day off.I love chatting to vloggers. I normally escort narrowboats up the wheel and up the 2 massive electric sluices lock gates you go in to get onto the union canal. The time you were at TFW there had been a breach on a part of the union canal. First time its breached that part in 200 years. It meant no boats could travel from Edinburgh to TFW via the union canal. Most holiday hire boats want to go up TFW an onto Edinburgh which take you right into the heart of the city. Some take in the festival or the tattoo etc. Covid knocked that part on the head but it was still super busy as families wanted to get away from it all, keep safe and holiday at home so hiring a narrowboat was the perfect idea. The breach was a real bummer it really was, few did keep their holidays and took the boats down the 13 lock gates to the kelpies or went west towards Glasgow. Hopefully the breach will be fixed for next season and with the vaccine and plenty of programmes on tv like Celebs go barging it really helps. Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing, I had a fantastic visit!
Amazing! 😲
This is really darn cool Sir!
For some reason, I can see this being in a Jurassic Park movie in some way, down the line! 😁
Thanks For Sharing This! 👍
I remember seeing this featured on CBBC as a kid, always thought it was interesting, thanks for sharing
Awww man you were only 5mins from me, I could have treated you to a bottle of bucky 🤣
Thank you!
Hi Shawn, my Mum and I been on the Falkirk Wheel once, that was a few years ago. 🏴
Fantastic stuff Shawn. A hell of a piece of engineering, it makes my home made sock warmer look ordinary......
I went on that when I visited Scotland in 2018 😀
Amazing structure shawn, your gonna love Ben nevis, we done it 25 years ago, took us 8 hours up and down, but well worth going up. There is also a cable cars i remember. There was one guy who carried his bike up and rode down,, what a show of lol.
Thank you!
i love like ten minutes from there love from falkirk ❤️
Where in Scotland is the county of Falkirk ?
@@johnh1001 directly in between glasgow and edinburgh
Shawn, I live a couple of miles along the canal from the Wheel, and my In-Laws live across the canal from it.
Been on it many times, and watched it being constructed.
Bird @4:48 is like "WTF?"
I was expecting Shawn to shout 'a bit of HELIX HELIX HELIX' as it was going round...... very disappointed he didn't, come on Shawn!!!
Wrong channel for that one!
Two boats in one gondola going up and one boat in the top gondola coming down. No problem with balance as the two boats will displace more water from their gondola making just about the same weight as the other one.
Awesome
Yayy shawn!!!!! u went to the wheel I live near it. Its great for walks and also for the park for my little boy lol. Me, my husband and son are a regulars to the wheel, live so close to it lol. Damn I wish I was there today to say hello to u!!!! (from a distance of course)
Ah Shawn we were going to go there but visited the kelpies instead! It’s in my video on my channel that looks awesome tho! Wish I went now
That is impressive
Nice knowledge 👌
Great video and it’s pronounced Fall Kirk 🙂. Live 5 minutes away from it, and been up many times.
Thank you!
great vlog Shawn, but my wife really really found the music annoying lol
Thanks for your feedback
I have been on a boat ride in York on Monday and you can be a good tour guide on it.
I've only been once, back in 2011 with my gran and grandad:)
Cool, did u like it?
@@dillonlewallen7086 I enjoyed it however I was only 9 at the time so I probably would enjoy it more of I went now
Shawn Falkirk is pronounced ''Fall kirk'' lol :)
Need to invite him I’ll the pub for some Scots lessons haha.
sorry your wrong shawn as got it right this time (The Falkirk Wheel) do your history better not pronounced as fallkirk
@@nigel5823 Nigel what on earth are you talking about? I'm referring to pronunciation?
nigel I actually don’t know what you’re trying to say here
Oh, thank you so much for pointing that out, it was really getting to me lol 😆 😅
Loving how you pronounce things!
it uses the equivalent of five electric kettles to boil of 1 litre of water to move one circle. It's that balanced.
Less than an hour away from me
Very good vlog or should I say veeeeeeeelog 🤣
funny (not really). Was about to watch your Nevis climb video and then saw i had missed two more videos. This one and the Kelpies.
The problem with to many channel subscriptions :D
Thanks for watching them!
Certaintly a weird design but a good experience!
Is that the actual music that plays when it is moving?
Is it just a tourist thing.... or do commercial and private boats use it as well.... and if so, is there a fee for that kind of use. It was absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Private boats also use it!
Mostly used for holiday hires which are based at the wheel. Private boats pay a fixed mooring fee and can use the wheel as many times as they want during the season. Some days we have 19 boat movements. Some coming from the east in Edinburgh and some from Glasgow. There is 2 trip boats which do the usual thing shaun was on but its been really busy with holiday hires now after such programmes Celebs go barging etc. I escorted 2 boats up the wheel last season. Anne Diamond and Jenny bond on 1. The other Pete waterman and Bill Oddy. There was cameras everywhere but when it was shown on tv only a small part covered the wheel. All you could see was my white safety helmet lol.
Take The Jaggie Thistle ... a barge that you can do it by yourself. You are Captain.
And just to give a bit of closure to the pronunciation argument below (I was born in Falkirk Infirmary, and have stayed here the entire 44 years of my life), the first syllable is definitely pronounced 'fall', as in to 'fall' off a cliff. But as also mentioned, if you really wanted to sound local, you'd pronounce it 'faw', like 'fall' but without the 'll'. But jeez, you can't really be blamed for that, you're just pronouncing it as you read it, and nobody can be expected to accurately pronounce every single place name they visit, so I wouldn't worry about it :-)
interesting
You need to build a Falkirk wheel in the Suez canal then you won't have a pile up of ships .
You could argue it is actually in Camelon.
👍👍👍🏴
So basically it's a larger version of the rapid ride at Bobbijann land?
It's a canal. It goes from Falkirk all the way to Edinburgh. Also goes to Glasgow to 😊
Is there a turn table at the end of the tunnel
The boat has space to turn around
The way he says Falkirk hurts me
The most amazing thing about it is that it's entirely mechanical. If it was a barge using electrical pumps. It would be incredibly energy intensive.
Here shawn is it scary high when ur up there?
I don’t find heights scary but I imagine some people wouldn’t like it!
Go to New Lanark
I live in falkirk
Thanks for hearting my Comment
You've got the voice of a TV narrator. I actually enjoyed learning about this. What's your favorite place? Or your favorite video of yours?
Thank you so much! I loved exploring NYC!
Fall Kirk 😉 👍🏻
Faw kirk lol
@@albee_fuqtifanno8595 😂 I was trying to give the lad half a chance 😁
Whoho, more tourism
Dunno why it's called the Falkirk wheel, it's in tamfourhill 😂 same as the kelpies, in glensburgh,part of grangemouth but Falkirk still claim them
Andrew Johnston tammyhill a part of Falkirk, and the kelpies in Falkirk, no Grangemouth 😂😂
@@yvonnejohnston9429 I'll let you have that only cos you have a cool surname 😁
Shame that Shawn hasn't learned how to pronounce FALKIRK (FALL-kirk). It comes from the name of the "Faw Kirk" Anvient Church with speckled stone (Faw stone)
Thanks for letting me know!
Falkirk is pronounced as "Fall Kirk' not 'Fal Kirk'
It's weird watching someone vlog in the area I live in lol
Its pronounced FALL - KIRK = falkirk
Thank you!
shawn sorryy but can you say falkirk right say fall then kirk seprately then try saying falkirk
My pronunciation is usually awful!
I see they use the American system of measurement 🤣
if this will be boring for me
It’s something very different!
What is this witchcraft
The background music tho...its annoying.
Thanks for your feedback
Close enough pronounaction wise but it's "fall Kirk" shawn
it pronounced falkirk shawn got it right this time
@@nigel5823 its fallkirk
Mate it’s pronounced
Fall - kirk
My pronunciation is usually awful!