I thank all of you, who have commented and subscribed to this video! Initially, this clip was meant to be shared with only a few dozen of my FB friends. I never expected it to have over 2K subscribers or over 2 million views, I never strive for such numbers. Those numbers tell me, that one doesn't have to have any spectacular videos to arouse people's interests. That people appreciate, down to earth "honest" stuff. That was my wife Kathy who walked down along with the boat and spoke to me in German and was continuously looking back and watching me, that I didn't fall in to the water :-) Not any kind of surprise, as I'm used to surveillance even at home :-) Since recently, I also fly a drone and I've posted some aerial videos. We just returned from a 3-weeks road trip in Turkey and I'll be posting some aerial clips. Could be of interest to some, to see familiar things from a different perspective. Coming Saturday the 1st of June, we'll be in Belgium for an extended weekend. I then plan to visit some similar engineering feats and do a simple video like this. Once again, I would like to thank all of you, who watched this video and liked and subscribed!
WOW! I am 56 years old, a Truck Driver for 26 years here in the U.S.A., was in the US Navy for 10 years all over the world before that, and had no idea something like this existed!!!!! (VERY different from Panama Canal! LOL) You DO learn something new every day, if you try! Thanks for sharing this video!!!! :)
Hey Michael I think you're lying to the people I lying to yourself you say you've been all over the world and you don't know something like that existed really what world were you on that you didn't know about this so when somebody goes all over the world that means they know everything that's in the world right so quit lying and why the Navy cuz the Navy needed a Few Good Men so was you ?
I was stationed at NAS Norfolk back in the 80s. We used to run up and down the intercoastal waterway. Had a 21 ft Sea Ray. When we went into town on the weekends and bar hop, we had 1 lock to deal with. What an experience
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Honestly I was weirded out at first and annoyed, now I love it! You start looking something up before you know it your leaving about some random shit that is mind blowing! Haha! TH-cam could be the best education ever, or it can be the biggest waste of time.
I live in USA, near the now defunct Morris canal. Lots of historic remains of the canal still stand, so it’s awesome to see what it would have would like doing its operation. Thanks so much for uploading
I grew up in New Jersey along a section of the former Morris canal system, and one of the long gone incline planes, only saw ancient black and white sepia toned images of what they looked like in their heyday, this is pretty awesome to see ... thanks for sharing
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This, the _Oberländischer Kanal_ (including its 5 inclined-plane boat movers like this one) was built by the Kingdom of Prussia, opened in 1860 in this part of what was then East Prussia. (It wasn't within Poland until 1945, after which it was renamed the "Elbląg" canal.)
@@EduardQualls But u know. In "normal" country machine like that will be closed because safety regulations. In Poland it's still doing pretty good work.
@@Elven_de_Bieuzy_An_Ozhac-h You're wrong: Poland got this region by the "winning" powers of the 2nd world war (US, Russia, GB) in exchange to the easternmore, former polish, region Stalin "devoured". (This doesn't say anything about whether all this was correct, human - nor"wise"...)
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@@pommespeter420 the elblag canal was built by the king of prussia 1825 and 1844. elblagis polish since 1945 and was german before that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal read this if you want more information. has polish language.
can you imagine the engineer who thought of this explaining how this will work and his buddies saying your crazy no way that will never work.?. but it did. pretty cool.
The world is full of doubters. And if the inventive people like me only listened to them through the history of the world we wouldn’t have much more than the wheel and the trash can lids that open when you step on the pedal by the floor.
Actually I don't think it was that difficult a sale. Portages have been used for ages long before railroads. If something like that wasn't used, then it would have been necessary to build quite a few very deep locks which would have also drained a lot of water from the high side dumping into the low side every time a boat was moved. The locks would have had to be maintained and they always leak somewhat. Moving water from the leaking or seepage erodes structures. This is a much better and sane solution.
Great video, we have one of these marine railroads in Ontario, Canada on the Trent- Severn waterway, and i always thought we were unique in that. Thanks for sharing.
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I’ve seen other videos of these narrow canals that showed how they coped with a mountain and needing to get to the waterway at the top. They just started building short locks, one right against the next, and when they finished they 11 or 12 locks! Interesting!
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My eyes, 62.5years old... lol.. have never beheld a sight like this. Okay, maybe one other time in Old Germany, where I took pics of one canal built perpendicular to another canal . Like a massive Plus + sign. Here, makes me curious, why the earth was just not removed... to connect the canals.
I traveled around Poland for 5 weeks last year. Lovely people, really very good. I saw Bison. I hiked in the Carpathians. I went into the amazing world heritage salt mine. I saw Schindler’s factory in beautiful Wroclaw. Very nice country. I’m glad Poland has peace now after such difficult history.
@@renekleppel8569 Your land, you say? Probably therfore German's in East Prussia forbid polish language in schools and public places. Speaking about adulation deficit. Wissen Sie was Größenwahn ist?
@@BasementEngineer And what do you expect, exactly? After centuries of extortion and being punished just for using their native language,people should apply their self's and watch unwillingly how their heritage, land and identity is being destroyed and their children are being turned in little German's and they should stay calm and polite? Get a grip, man. Besides, German's murdered not only other nationalities, they also killed their own children and sick people. I'm sure, you have heard of action T4. Let that be the measure here. I often work I'm Germany. I am a train driver and I visit many places in Germany. I like the people there. I speak their language. But i know what their parents did. Read something about hospital in Vienna called "Am Spiegelgrunf" Stay safe, man.
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É sou o NÔMADE e escrevo para que você possa ficar com a butuca ligada, quando alguém pensa tudo e satisfatorio no resultado de trabalho final, nosso pais TUPINIQUIM. !! Muitos só pensaram em roubar todo projeto gastam muito é uma vergonha todo final de obra muitas das quais são abandonadas, e a roubalheira sumiu com a verba, muitos dos trabalhadores recorrem a justiça, é uma sacanagem ao trabalhador muitas vezes enganados perdem o que teriam a receber,, os patrões e empregados, sempre em desacordo.
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There is an even bigger inclined boat lift in Roncquières, Belgium. It was built for the coal and steel industry in the french part of Belgium, but since they stopped mining coal in Belgium it was almost never used for that purpose. Sometimes it is called “grand traveaux inutile” or big useless construction. :)
Gertjan Van Liedekerke, en de scheepslift van Strépy-Thieu... Werken begonnen in 1982, eerste schip werd ‘gelift’ in... 2002. Prijskaartje: 652.000.000€, vier keer meer dan de oorspronkelijke kostenraming van 150.000.000€... Maar omdat het wegverkeer hopeloos vast geraakt, blijkt de lift toch nog nuttig te zijn. (ik laat de vertaling aan jou over 😄)
@@mvashton Also very nice but I imagine much more costly to build, maintain and operate) then a set of railway tracks, some Gynormous wheels and pulleys and some steel cable... The Polish nailed it on this one...
El itsmo de Chiapas lo diseñe de está manera pero los gobiernos no les interesa.ni a los ambientalistas vendidos.con los estados undidos.que no quieren que una nación propere.rartas.anglosajonas.pero un día será cuando los de Oaxaca y Chiapas despierten espero que no sea muy tarde.saludos su ingetonto.
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Couldn't do that in the UK. Health & Safety Executive would find a thousand things wrong, and once all those problems were sorted out the government would tax the hell out of it and make it financially impossible anyway.
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Rhys Hughes it’s called a “portage”, and it appears to be achieved by way of a funicular. In this instance the carriage loaded with the boat is obviously heavier than the empty carriage, so gravity does the work. If both carriages had boats gravity would still contribute. The only force that one would need to add would be any positive difference in weight of the ascending carriage. In other words, if the carriage running uphill weighs more than the one running down hill. This is actually a sophisticated way of doing this if one doesn’t want to expend the resources to build a lock.
Beyond Belief for the same reason this mechanism is necessary here. The water level on one side of a land mass is higher than it is on the other side of the land mass. In this case, the boats are relatively small and about the same size, so this system works here. Locks can raise and lower much larger boats and even very large ships, as well as small boats.
@@hobbyhermit66 Thanks for the reply. As a practically minded man, do you think it is possible to practically demonstrate a body of water naturally conforming to the exterior of shapes? I'm a skeptic you see, and I don't think that claim can be repeatedly demonstrated verified or falsified as all claims of objective fact of course should be. A practical example of a body of water on a gradient that doesn't flow to points of lower elevation would be greatly appreciated too if you have any. Cheers
I think this kind of alternating carrier is called a jigback system where the rising carrier is balanced by the descending one, like elevators and counterweights or gondollas ascending mountains. Thus the load is partly ballanced by the one going down on the opposite run. But the fact this was built by Prussia in the 19th century is impressive!
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The Morris Canal in NJ had dozens of these inclined planes as boats travelled across the state from the Delaware River in Phillipsburg to the Newark Bay. The planes were powered by water power via Scotch turbines
Yes, the constructor of these canal visited the Morris canal and got some inspiration there, but found this diffrent solution. The whole canal uses 5 of this cableways.
Boss man: we need to get boats down this hill Designer: (in a sarcastic voice) why don't we just pick the boat up and but it down there? Boss man: there's an idea
There was a series of inclined planes to cross a small mountain range, back when goods were widely transported by canal boats, here in central Pennsylvania where I live. They are all long gone though, with the exception a few museums around and traces of the old rail beds.
Let me fill in for ol' Tommy Scotty. "I'm standing in Poland near one of the most creative ways [pause] to move a boat [pause] over a hill. [fast] I know what you're thinking: why not just get rid of the hill? [slow] That's where the story gets interesting..."
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Insanely Beautiful. no music just the most calming video ever.thank you .
I had “sixteen miles on the Elblag canal” going through my head : (
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🌼🌱 Hi honey!
I very much agree! Far too many TH-camrs add loud, unnecessary 'music' to their videos. In every case I'd prefer to hear the natural sounds...
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Initially, this clip was meant to be shared with only a few dozen of my FB friends.
I never expected it to have over 2K subscribers or over 2 million views,
I never strive for such numbers.
Those numbers tell me, that one doesn't have to have any spectacular videos to arouse people's interests.
That people appreciate, down to earth "honest" stuff.
That was my wife Kathy who walked down along with the boat and spoke to me in German and was continuously looking back and watching me, that I didn't fall in to the water :-)
Not any kind of surprise, as I'm used to surveillance even at home :-)
Since recently, I also fly a drone and I've posted some aerial videos.
We just returned from a 3-weeks road trip in Turkey and I'll be posting some aerial clips.
Could be of interest to some, to see familiar things from a different perspective.
Coming Saturday the 1st of June, we'll be in Belgium for an extended weekend.
I then plan to visit some similar engineering feats and do a simple video like this.
Once again, I would like to thank all of you, who watched this video and liked and subscribed!
Does the cradle close or move side to side to steady the ship and what keeps it from sliding off the end Thanks from Vancouver CANADA
thanks for making the videos!
I'm not even sure how I got here but ended up watching the whole video because I've never seen such innovation 🤣
@@snowgorilla9789, the cradles are on rails.
It finally does slide back in to the water.
The cradles are pulled in both directions by a cable.
Hello from America, Thanks for posting this. Likewise I have never seen this before. Great Job
WOW! I am 56 years old, a Truck Driver for 26 years here in the U.S.A., was in the US Navy for 10 years
all over the world before that, and had no idea something like this existed!!!!! (VERY different from Panama Canal! LOL)
You DO learn something new every day, if you try! Thanks for sharing this video!!!! :)
It's basically what all of Disneyland is. Guessing Mr Disney has been to Poland
You’d think they’d cut it Thru?
Hey Michael I think you're lying to the people I lying to yourself you say you've been all over the world and you don't know something like that existed really what world were you on that you didn't know about this so when somebody goes all over the world that means they know everything that's in the world right so quit lying and why the Navy cuz the Navy needed a Few Good Men so was you ?
@@jacksonhwyoming1264 boo. Unneeded comment. 👎
@@beargillium2369 What did he say?
Мне 62 года. Вижу такое в первый раз. Спасибо Вам! Вы меня очень удивили. Бесподобно!!!!
Это в двух шагах от нашего Калининграда, если что.
Sagenhaftes Bauwerk, seit 1859 in Betrieb! Ohne Strom! Dieses Jahr selbst erlebt, einmalig!
I was stationed at NAS Norfolk back in the 80s. We used to run up and down the intercoastal waterway. Had a 21 ft Sea Ray. When we went into town on the weekends and bar hop, we had 1 lock to deal with. What an experience
Thank you for that info!
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Back when life was not fast paced, what an engineering masterpiece.
Now I can check off today's "see something you've never seen before". Thanks!
If you liked this, then search for video of the Anderton Boat Lift.
@@Steve_1999 and Falkirk Wheel also
Me: looks up videos of games
Me 3 mins later: watches boats on cable cars
that cable is so strong
same 😂
That's the wonder of TH-cam!
Honestly I was weirded out at first and annoyed, now I love it! You start looking something up before you know it your leaving about some random shit that is mind blowing! Haha! TH-cam could be the best education ever, or it can be the biggest waste of time.
@@sleepyheadfpv1507 haha sometimes it feels like I learn more when watching 2 hours of TH-cam than a week of school.
Thanks to TH-cam I can know this part of the world.... very interesting, Ive never seen anything like this wow!
only in Poland )
This is much more impressive
th-cam.com/video/DqFdkRFqfMU/w-d-xo.html
German technic!
@@spooky3669 Same principle, just bigger.. This is a completely different idea th-cam.com/video/DxKWSQDeA78/w-d-xo.html
@Patriot check out the “Falkirk wheel” in Scotland. That’s another piece of fantastic engineering.
I live in USA, near the now defunct Morris canal. Lots of historic remains of the canal still stand, so it’s awesome to see what it would have would like doing its operation. Thanks so much for uploading
Wow I came on line to say the same thing about the NJ Morris canal that had the same system.
Was it powered by water too, as this one?
I grew up in New Jersey along a section of the former Morris canal system, and one of the long gone incline planes, only saw ancient black and white sepia toned images of what they looked like in their heyday, this is pretty awesome to see ... thanks for sharing
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What an ingenious idea! Thanks for sharing.
It's really amazing to see a ship is running on the land. What an idea it is. Just wow....😱
Bravi ragazzi,geniale...
Well, I thought I had seen everything in the world. This is fabulously awesome.
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People: You can't sail over land
Poland: Hold my piwo
This, the _Oberländischer Kanal_ (including its 5 inclined-plane boat movers like this one) was built by the Kingdom of Prussia, opened in 1860 in this part of what was then East Prussia. (It wasn't within Poland until 1945, after which it was renamed the "Elbląg" canal.)
Well they just did.
@@EduardQualls But u know. In "normal" country machine like that will be closed because safety regulations. In Poland it's still doing pretty good work.
@@EduardQualls Yes Poland stole this region, shame on Poland !
@@Elven_de_Bieuzy_An_Ozhac-h You're wrong: Poland got this region by the "winning" powers of the 2nd world war (US, Russia, GB) in exchange to the easternmore, former polish, region Stalin "devoured". (This doesn't say anything about whether all this was correct, human - nor"wise"...)
This is so amazing. I love boats. 😊
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Я думал уже многое чего повидал, но это шедевр!
Для таких пойдёт а если что побольше? А так даааа супер! Вот что творит человек
Wow! that is really cool, thanks for putting it on here
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Love the old equipment. Great idea from the past.
Ok rreeeeee
probably made by the germans, wouldn't entirely trust that thin steel cable though
German 1844-1860.
@@pommespeter420
the elblag canal was built by the king of prussia 1825 and 1844. elblagis polish since 1945 and was german before that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal
read this if you want more information. has polish language.
@@ursodermatt8809 All these areas were German since 9th century
can you imagine the engineer who thought of this explaining how this will work and his buddies saying your crazy no way that will never work.?. but it did. pretty cool.
*you're*
The world is full of doubters. And if the inventive people like me only listened to them through the history of the world we wouldn’t have much more than the wheel and the trash can lids that open when you step on the pedal by the floor.
This is a Baby Version of the Big Chute in Ontario
Awesome camera zoom.
Wouldn't it have been simpler too just excavate the hill? Lol.
Actually I don't think it was that difficult a sale. Portages have been used for ages long before railroads. If something like that wasn't used, then it would have been necessary to build quite a few very deep locks which would have also drained a lot of water from the high side dumping into the low side every time a boat was moved. The locks would have had to be maintained and they always leak somewhat. Moving water from the leaking or seepage erodes structures. This is a much better and sane solution.
Clever solution to a problem! Never seen such skills before!
I never see this kind of creativity before!
Bloody amazing, ill just take my boat and put it over here, seriously amazing confidence
Great video, we have one of these marine railroads in Ontario, Canada on the Trent- Severn waterway, and i always thought we were unique in that. Thanks for sharing.
And i was thinking the same in Poland. Maybe ther are more of us
Make a video!!
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Very entertaining and fun to watch. Never knew these existed. Now I do. Thanks for posting this.
Wow this is amazing,I've never seen anything so unique and savy
I’ve seen other videos of these narrow canals that showed how they coped with a mountain and needing to get to the waterway at the top. They just started building short locks, one right against the next, and when they finished they 11 or 12 locks! Interesting!
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That is probably the most pedestrian yet interesting looking canal I have ever seen.
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Worlds smallest cruise ship. Another great engineering job. Way cool
Now there are two reasons to visit Poland, the beautiful women and this!
Таких приколов я ещё не встречал!
Jak widać można stateczkiem płynąć i jechać i to po torach.
Swietny film.
Pozdrawiam 🌼
Simply Amazing!!
Totally awesome. much like, i think how the Morris Canal in NJ worked once. Fascinating. Thank you.
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My eyes, 62.5years old... lol.. have never beheld a sight like this. Okay, maybe one other time in Old Germany, where I took pics of one canal built perpendicular to another canal . Like a massive Plus + sign. Here, makes me curious, why the earth was just not removed... to connect the canals.
I traveled around Poland for 5 weeks last year. Lovely people, really very good. I saw Bison. I hiked in the Carpathians. I went into the amazing world heritage salt mine. I saw Schindler’s factory in beautiful Wroclaw. Very nice country. I’m glad Poland has peace now after such difficult history.
Leider Eine Bildungslücke. Das ist Ur Deutsches Land. Und die Anlage, wer hat sie erschaffen. Deutsche , weiße Ingenieurs Kunst.
Schindler's factory, you mentioned is in Kraków.
@@renekleppel8569 Your land, you say?
Probably therfore German's in East Prussia forbid polish language in schools and public places.
Speaking about adulation deficit.
Wissen Sie was Größenwahn ist?
@@m.q-zersky47 Read the book "Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority in Poland".
@@BasementEngineer And what do you expect, exactly?
After centuries of extortion and being punished just for using their native language,people should apply their self's and watch unwillingly how their heritage, land and identity is being destroyed and their children are being turned in little German's and they should stay calm and polite?
Get a grip, man.
Besides, German's murdered not only other nationalities, they also killed their own children and sick people.
I'm sure, you have heard of action T4.
Let that be the measure here.
I often work I'm Germany.
I am a train driver and I visit many places in Germany.
I like the people there.
I speak their language.
But i know what their parents did.
Read something about hospital in Vienna called "Am Spiegelgrunf"
Stay safe, man.
The wonders never cease!!!
Seriously? Missed it all these years? Never heard of this and it is just incredible. Thank you.
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That was very satisfying to watch.
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AMAZING! Never se anything like this before!!
This is so cool! I remember being on a beach somewhere in California and seeing one of these abandoned.
Very enjoyable to watch - thank you for sharing.
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👍👍Wonderfull 👏👏👏👏😍😍 love from TURKEY ❤️🇹🇷❤️
that is very unique! And this place is very calm and beautiful!
You could have a picknick and have freaking 50 ton boats pass overhead... brilliant...
Greetings from Elbląg.. I live in this city
@@dawidpiotr6134 Wow!
We really enjoyed our stay in Elblag.
Que lindo o navio, parabéns pelo lindo local, super interessante, sucessos com seu maravilhoso canal
É bem legal
É sou o NÔMADE e escrevo para que você possa ficar com a butuca ligada, quando alguém pensa tudo e satisfatorio no resultado de trabalho final, nosso pais TUPINIQUIM. !! Muitos só pensaram em roubar todo projeto gastam muito é uma vergonha todo final de obra muitas das quais são abandonadas, e a roubalheira sumiu com a verba, muitos dos trabalhadores recorrem a justiça, é uma sacanagem ao trabalhador muitas vezes enganados perdem o que teriam a receber,, os patrões e empregados, sempre em desacordo.
As a child, I remember walking along the canal to visit my Auntie .
I cannot believe, if i informed by someone, 😮😮😮 what a wonderful mechanism innovated humans, unbelievable. Thanks
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There is an even bigger inclined boat lift in Roncquières, Belgium. It was built for the coal and steel industry in the french part of Belgium, but since they stopped mining coal in Belgium it was almost never used for that purpose. Sometimes it is called “grand traveaux inutile” or big useless construction. :)
Gertjan Van Liedekerke, en de scheepslift van Strépy-Thieu... Werken begonnen in 1982, eerste schip werd ‘gelift’ in... 2002. Prijskaartje: 652.000.000€, vier keer meer dan de oorspronkelijke kostenraming van 150.000.000€... Maar omdat het wegverkeer hopeloos vast geraakt, blijkt de lift toch nog nuttig te zijn. (ik laat de vertaling aan jou over 😄)
There also have huge elevators for boats
I've watched a bunch of kayakers swarm the car last time I watched it used back in the late '70s. It is a great piece of engineering design.
Wonderful to see this. Marvelous construction with technique. Thanks
Three guys, a railroad engineer, a ship captain and a guy from Poland walk into a bar.
I like boats, I like elevators, I like cable cars. Hold my beer I got an idea.
If this things gets you going then prepare yourself for...The Anderton Boat Lift th-cam.com/video/n6tfrS-Lkek/w-d-xo.html
@@mvashton Also very nice but I imagine much more costly to build, maintain and operate) then a set of railway tracks, some Gynormous wheels and pulleys and some steel cable... The Polish nailed it on this one...
El itsmo de Chiapas lo diseñe de está manera pero los gobiernos no les interesa.ni a los ambientalistas vendidos.con los estados undidos.que no quieren que una nación propere.rartas.anglosajonas.pero un día será cuando los de Oaxaca y Chiapas despierten espero que no sea muy tarde.saludos su ingetonto.
Probably one of the coolest and stupidest things I’ve ever seen...
@@mvashton Checkout the Falkirk wheel, my favorite. th-cam.com/video/_tBH9SE-Kw8/w-d-xo.html
Woods, clean water and sunny day. perfect 👌
Pretty great!! This reminds me of a similar boat lift in Canada on the "Trent Severn Waterway" at a place called the "Big Shutte (?)".
My bucket list just got longer, engineers ROCK!!
I'll probably never see my ancestral homeland in real life, but videos like this help a lot to make up for it.
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Now that is something different I have ever seen, Thank You
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That would be one hell of a ride if those cables let go
There's an idea! New theme park ride!!!
Marvelous idea and its implementation
When there”s a will, there’s a way, . .
Amazing!Some ingenuity went in to that....
Strange transportation but it's amazing.
With youtube, we see new wonders every day.
Couldn't do that in the UK. Health & Safety Executive would find a thousand things wrong, and once all those problems were sorted out the government would tax the hell out of it and make it financially impossible anyway.
We did have them though…one at Telford that I know of. You’re right though…many H & S issues!
Realbait.... have never anything like this before.. Thank you
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Fantastic project!
Amazing 👍 Thanks for sharing!
I say we really need to consider random drug screening for civil engineers.
At the same time though, its probably better we don't so long as it works
Why. This was prob cheaper then making the locks to do the same thing. And obviously works really well.
Rhys Hughes it’s called a “portage”, and it appears to be achieved by way of a funicular. In this instance the carriage loaded with the boat is obviously heavier than the empty carriage, so gravity does the work. If both carriages had boats gravity would still contribute. The only force that one would need to add would be any positive difference in weight of the ascending carriage. In other words, if the carriage running uphill weighs more than the one running down hill. This is actually a sophisticated way of doing this if one doesn’t want to expend the resources to build a lock.
Will G riiiight...because friction losses can be ignored like that
Will G that’s not true 100%
Elbląg is my city 💕 Love from Poland!
have you seen this place yourself? Greetings from Bulgaria, mate :)
Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Węgry 😃😀😄😁
„Love“ frome old Germany u mean?
@@pommespeter420 nem!
Też tu mieszjam... Duma
That is awesome. Easier than building locks, I imagine.
There are no locks on the Suez canal that extends for over 100 miles. Why are they even neccessary in the first place?
Beyond Belief for the same reason this mechanism is necessary here. The water level on one side of a land mass is higher than it is on the other side of the land mass.
In this case, the boats are relatively small and about the same size, so this system works here. Locks can raise and lower much larger boats and even very large ships, as well as small boats.
@@hobbyhermit66 Thanks for the reply. As a practically minded man, do you think it is possible to practically demonstrate a body of water naturally conforming to the exterior of shapes? I'm a skeptic you see, and I don't think that claim can be repeatedly demonstrated verified or falsified as all claims of objective fact of course should be.
A practical example of a body of water on a gradient that doesn't flow to points of lower elevation would be greatly appreciated too if you have any.
Cheers
Fantastic. I thought the Falkirk wheel was great but this is so simple.
It's a choo choo boat! Damn that's so freakin' cool.
I think this kind of alternating carrier is called a jigback system where the rising carrier is balanced by the descending one, like elevators and counterweights or gondollas ascending mountains. Thus the load is partly ballanced by the one going down on the opposite run. But the fact this was built by Prussia in the 19th century is impressive!
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Absolutely brilliant engineering master piece
Oh my God how wonderful a landscape
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I would love to visit this place someday.
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Love it. "Solving the problem". This is what engineering is all about
This wonderful scene was very nice
Very cool I never thought something like that existed😊
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Thanks for this interesting footage and your zoom is very good ^^
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The Morris Canal in NJ had dozens of these inclined planes as boats travelled across the state from the Delaware River in Phillipsburg to the Newark Bay. The planes were powered by water power via Scotch turbines
Didn't know that and I live in the tristate area. Thanks. Will look into it.
Yes, the constructor of these canal visited the Morris canal and got some inspiration there, but found this diffrent solution. The whole canal uses 5 of this cableways.
We saw something very similar at Big Chute, Ontario, Canada when we were there a number of years ago.
One of the coolest things I have ever seen!
MUITO BOM, EDUCATIVO. NUNCA TINHA VISTO COMO SE TIRAVA UM BARCO TÃO FÁCIL
Boss man: we need to get boats down this hill
Designer: (in a sarcastic voice) why don't we just pick the boat up and but it down there?
Boss man: there's an idea
I'm not sure why this comment just drilled my funny bone. Lol!
INACREDITÁVEL ESSE CANAL DA POLÔNIA - GOSTEI MUITO DESSE VÍDEO !
QUERO CONHECER ESSE PAÍS E TAMBÉM O CANAL DE ELBLAG !
There was a series of inclined planes to cross a small mountain range, back when goods were widely transported by canal boats, here in central Pennsylvania where I live. They are all long gone though, with the exception a few museums around and traces of the old rail beds.
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Dude your zoom was insane! 😂👍
I need Tom Scott to talk me through this.
Amazing!
Let me fill in for ol' Tommy Scotty.
"I'm standing in Poland near one of the most creative ways [pause] to move a boat [pause] over a hill. [fast] I know what you're thinking: why not just get rid of the hill? [slow] That's where the story gets interesting..."
@@CurtisDensmore1 Haaaah! It's like he's standing right here!
;)
They have a couple of these marine railroads on Loon Lake up in the Minnesota Boundary Waters.
Quite cool. Very smooth and simple.
Wow! I’ve not !!! seen this before, what a fete of engineering 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Ein unvergessener Urlaubstag! Natürlich in positivem Sinne!
That's the neatest thing I've ever seen!
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And the cart coming back up the hill is used as a counterweight too!!!! 😲
I had no idea this even existed, wow amazing
check out this one... th-cam.com/video/Xy7OG_vViSM/w-d-xo.html
Excellent video, one of the best. Bravo.
I to w moim mieście 🤗
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This thing was fascinating and an engineering marvel, just combine a canal and a railroad!
But the Falkirk wheel has it beat.😊
Very impressive !
Très très impressionnant quand même ! 👍😎