I love, i absolutely love that this man just spun up this giant wheel and then just up and left us sitting in his barn to watch it spin. Such a Tim move.

Watching the wheel spinning would be the perfect opportunity to tell us a story!

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

you're right, Dave. Another time : - )

@carpespasm

Жыл бұрын

Now this is a story all about how Tim's wheel got spun around and round and it'll be 16 minutes just sit right there. I'll tell you how he made a flywheel on the isle of Eire....

@PandaJ

Жыл бұрын

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 I enjoyed watching and the peace, and like you say simple pleasures in life

@milhooz

Жыл бұрын

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Nice idea! Here is a story about Tim, an Irish farmer and inventor, balancing a flywheel, that ChatGTP generated for you in a few seconds: Tim is an Irish farmer and inventor living in Western Ireland. He is a quiet, thoughtful man with a curious mind and a love for tinkering and problem-solving. One day, while out tending to his fields, Tim has an idea. He wants to create a machine that can crush charcoal to make biochar, a valuable soil amendment that can improve soil fertility and water retention. He spends months researching and experimenting, trying different designs and materials until he finally hits upon the perfect solution: a huge flywheel made out of wood and steel. The flywheel is a marvel of engineering. It is nearly 20 feet in diameter and weighs over a ton, but it is perfectly balanced and smooth. Tim works tirelessly to get it just right, and when it is finished, he is confident it will work perfectly. He sets the flywheel up on a sturdy platform and connects it to a series of gears and levers. As he turns it on, he watches with amazement as the flywheel begins to spin. It seems almost as if it will spin forever, its momentum carrying it along with ease. Tim is thrilled with his invention, and he knows it has the potential to revolutionize the way people produce biochar. He spends the next few years working to refine his design and make it even more efficient. Eventually, Tim's flywheel becomes famous throughout the region, and people come from far and wide to see it in action. He is hailed as a genius and a visionary, and his simple, elegant solution to a complex problem inspires others to follow in his footsteps. And so, Tim's legacy lives on, a testament to the power of hard work, ingenuity, and determination. The end.

@semajekrad6922

Жыл бұрын

Something like the Clangers

When you put on the hand crank I realized you have recreated your animated logo in reality.

As someone who's late to your channel, I had no idea that you made the wheel and woodchopper and everything yourself. Your ingenuity is incredible!

Tim you do wonders for my health were watching the wheel to the end .My blood pressure was down thank goodness for the wheel 🛞.Love the sound of the birds 🦅.All the best what a way to spend an afternoon.GodBless 🤶🤶🎅🎅🎅🌲🌲🌲☮️☮️☮️

You did a beautiful job getting the wheel round I was watching it spin and it is unbelievably true, when I watch the light flicker. If I was your neighbor I be over at your place all the time. You and Sandra seem to be having a joyous life. Joyful holidays to you and your supporters

@TheLoiteringKid

Жыл бұрын

Not just round but the static balance is damn close if not spot on for the current weight, it just lazily came to a stop.

@pcka12

Жыл бұрын

Quite a number of women would regard his experimenting as 'a load of useless muddles', very like the mobile phone issue which until they became indispensable to the average woman were 'silly men fiddling with gadgets'!

I was thinking "this must store an absolutely monumental amount of kinetic energy" not realizing that I was watching a clip of it spinning under it's own power for more than 10 minutes.... incredible work.

"Now... now... now... now... now... now... now... now... now..." I love you guys. You reminds me so much of my youth at homefarm.

"It's curiosly contemplative and I found myself pondering life and ginger biscuits and the world spinning round, you know that curious overlap of the utter meaningless of everything and the simple pleasures we can get from everyday things and patterns and people" Best Commentary Ever : )

16 to 17 min that's almost double from the first. AWESOME. {{ Now put a coil on each leg, and several neo magnets on the wheel, and you could alternately make some low voltage lighting /dc power for the building that it will be housed in. }} Couple thousand led Christmas lights, perhaps. Defiantly enough to light up your length of track thus far, and your drying tunnel. CCHHEERRSSSSS

Dear sir. Please receive my compliment for making this beautiful flywheel. As an old swedish engineer (should be retired, and are really working at electrical designs, and automation) I still love to practise, those mechanicals we dealt with in school in the early 70-ths. I could not resist to estimate some forces of the wheel, though I that felt, you have underestimated your good design. I feel that it is capable of much more inertia, but I have forgotten the purpose of it, bad me. I love your motor, however, and your railway projects. I may have tried something similar in your situations. I also love, your love to eachother. I also had a wife many years ago, but now to my calcules, and please excuse some bad english. I decided to guess about datas, and assumed your 1/10 division of speeds from a 250mm belt-wheel, to a circumference 2500 mm of the flywheel, and assumed a weightpoint radius of 1,2m. The circumference is pi times the diameter or pi times 2* the radius, that rounded will be 2,4 ' pi= 7,5 m I counted to 10 spokes, and guesses the wood volume to 16 Litres per section, though I counted 10 spokes, and multiplied with 0,7 as the density of oak. It went 11,2 kg, and I added a guess of the steel, and got a total of 15 kg per spoke section. (this may be wrong, but not too far away) The sections are interleaved, and helps eachother in average, but I don't take this into count, though wood swells and dries after the weather. I love your design, as a real beauty, and may have just one hint. Some radial bolts, that keeps the wood from radial splits. (probably not needed, and dependent of velocity), However. I consider the sections as massive monolites of m=15 kg, and the centre weight of 1,2 m, as the model, and no interleaved friends. (we did such in my old school) I search for the centripital force in just one spoke, and just one section of the rim. Never count on the possible friends beside. The calcule of the centripetal force in simple as we use the ISO-units F= m * v2/r. F in Newtons, m in kg, v in m/s, and r in metres. We variate the rpm,s. 60 rpm=1r/s, and 120 rpm is 2r/s. Easy peasy. So what are the forces in Newtons radially? First we will know the velocity that is r/s times the cirkumference, that is 7,5 m/s at 1r/s, and 15 at 2r/s. @1r/s F= 15*7,5*7,5/1,2= 703 N @2r/s F=15*15'15/1,2=2113 N. Is that a problem? Let us take a view of the construction.. The spokes are beautiful, and overdrivenly strong for the purpose, so there are no needs to search for weakness. I don't even suspect, that the connections to hub, though the radial forces, will not belong to the bolt areas, but the friction of the joint, that is heavily more than a bolt is capable of, if So I is tightened as is provided. So I decided to concentrate, what I can see as the weakest point in the system, and should be the bolt-joints to the wood. Though wood is depentent of moistureness, it is not possible to rely of frictions, so it can depend on only one bolt's resistance totally, even if they are doubled up. One bolt can take the force of example the left side, and the same, or the other bolt might take the stress from the right side, so at maximum we can't rely of more than two square areas of bolts to share the forces, thougt the friction against the wood is not reliable. But now consider: This feels cool anyway, and the flywheel seems to be secure of at least 120 rpm. The inertia is quadrupled... Well we focusate at only bolt, that may take all of the stress in just one edge of clippings cause. Worst of all cases. I presume M10 bolts, of worst case of steel, that will not deform below 200 N/mm2. And that is really bad steel, hardly sold. The area of an assumed M10 bolt is approx 36mm2 So the sigma would be F/A, and 2113/36= 57 N/mm2, and makes it almost four cased of security, to the worst class of steel, and the worst class of tensions. So give the wheel up to at least 120 rpm if you want with full security, but perhaps secure the wood pieces with some screws or bolts radially. You know what I mean. The inertia of a flywheel quadruples With the double of the velocity. Use it, to serve your needs. Dear sir, wife, family and friends. I write just because of love and a fellowship I want to Ireland. I know not very much, as I presume you know not much of Sweden either, but we share the community of EU, and can make easy business without tolls, and others. Please intake my love, and curiosity of Ireland, and the nice people, as of yours. Nowmore we share a community, and that is good. Feel free so ask of anything. Bjoern

@jay90374

Жыл бұрын

Interesting ☺️

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for your kind words, Bjoern. I'm very impressed by your knowledge and hard work. I even understand some of what you wrote : - ) And you were very close on the sizes and weights you guessed at. So you think the wheel could go faster without damage? That's good. But do you think the belt will stay on at 60rpm? (I don't think I've seen a flatbelt on a wheel this big before.) When I start throwing logs into it from the side I wonder what that will do to the structure too! You're right, I know very little about Sweden, except that there are some really beautiful old single-cylinder engines there. (If Santa Claus is watching I'd like one like this please.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKCbmLtqhqvTlrg.html)

@bjornjohansson4911

Жыл бұрын

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Dear friend. The calculation was no hard work. Just ten minutes by pencil, paper and a stupid calculator that is not my friend. You don't have to worry about the velocity, now, when you confirm my harsh guess of weight. 120 rpm is secure with a factor of at least four, but at 240 rpm you are balancing at a security of 1:1, but at 180 rpm, you will have security margin of 2 (in worst case). However I have no data of the splitting strength of oak, that would depend of its growtht, and therefore impossible to count on. But a couple of radial M10 bolts would secure it from splitting, though the forces of these would correspond to the spoke-bolts in tension. So long, it was easy for me, but my knowledge of flat belts is just rudimental, as from memories from my youth days, when I earned wages by work at my relatives carpentry. I can imagine your doubts, of getting it stay at a rim of 2,5 m, and a narrow width. I also would feel the same. I would be happy to support you to an extent of what I can, but have to know what the purpose is, and what you seem the next step is. It depends of much. The wheel is secure at 120 rpm by itself, and would hold a massive of moving inertia that should be carried away by a transmission, that I don't know. If it is carried out by the center axel, we would have to make another calculation. Don't worry friend. I love this, and it makes me fell younger. The moving inertia in Nm is m*v2/2, We skip the spokes, and only counts on the rim, and the same data again. m=15*10=150 kg. v= 15 m/s, so m*v2/2 would be 16875 nm, and I round up by 1,2 for the spokes, so it lands about being about 20 kNm of torque, and that is a big moment. At 60 rpm, it would be about 5 kNm. Where comes these numbers to any benefit? At first we want to keep the machine to survive, and not hurting humans in closeness, so please describe the driveline from the flywheel to the work. If it is meant to be taken of the axel, we may concider, what it can take in a sudden stop, and here I have to guess wildly. Assume that a sudden resistance happen at the output from full to zero within half a second, and search for the forces in the axel. Assume that the axel has 50 mm outside diameter, and that we only can calculate with the outer space as a tube, to resist the torque. The inner part of an axel makes so less resistance, that I only count at the outermost 4 mm of the goods. It makes 578 mm2, with a radius of 23mm or 0,023 m. I am sorry, but the time is running late, and I have to break now, but will continue as soon as I can. Hugs, to yours.

I'm happy to see that, the Wheel is being continued on. Also last time we got 23 minutes of video, now it's 25. Impressive how long last and this video is. What will we get next time?, my guess would be 28 minutes. Great job on the construction of the Wheel.

@gwyneddboom2579

Жыл бұрын

Surely it’d be 27 minutes, because he adds 2 minutes ever videos

@danishtttestudios9365

Жыл бұрын

That sounds more true.

Speaking of cold, it's currently -28C in Whitehorse, Yukon, and it's supposed to get to -35C by early Monday morning.🥶

@andrewadams488

Жыл бұрын

@lotecque. Didn’t seem to be complaining about temperature, just stating facts

That handle is by far the most dangerous part I have seen of this build. I think I would have used an old bicycle peddle and sprocket so that it could free-wheel.

@metalmicky

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t there a rugby song with a wheel in it ?

@jacehackworth6413

Жыл бұрын

I got instant anxiety as soon as I saw it.

@ModelLights

Жыл бұрын

'most dangerous' Yes, the arm for the handle should be a disc instead, then there is no 90 degree surface to catch between the stand. Then a hole in the edge of the disc, and make a removable handle that slots in while pushing, but angles out the moment you stop pushing. Then the entire thing needs a chest high tub at the minimum so you can't easily fall into the spokes. This is a body mangler if someone falls into it or gets caught in the spokes. People don't recognize rotational energy correctly, there is almost none in nature. If this were radioactivity instead of momentum it would be glowing like the Sun and completely off the charts. It's ridiculously dangerous, to the point it's just comically dangerous. If you attached running chainsaws to the outer edge of the wheel it would actually be less dangerous, because everyone would recognize the danger from the chainsaws better.

It's a phenomenal achievement to get that to all go together. You should be very proud of it (and even more proud of yourself!)

wheel is looking amazing. Its crazy what people can build in there workshops. Love the railway as well!

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ed : - )

The simple things in life are the best, and I could watch that wheel spin with the birds singing all day. 😊

Twice the time spinning! That’s pretty good! The noisy wheel last time was nice, but the silence of such a big mechanism is interesting too

Amazing. Usually I’m quick to take the technical knowledge from a video and quickly move on. Art is not something I comfortably enjoy. This is a supreme mating of art and engineering. I can’t stop watching. True art is a job well done.

Your measurements are spot on. I hope your Christmas goes as smoothly as the great wheel. As always looking forward in the new year for the next step of the "charcoal crusher express".

I like how there's just 16 minutes of a huge wheel spinning.

Great flywheel! You'll have no problem keeping a belt on. The crown on the wheel does all the work for you. Crazy how the belt will try to run to the center on a crowned pulley. You did a very accurate job to come out so smooth first time out. That's called attention to detail and this is a master class.

Your wheel test is such a wonderful metaphor for a life well lived: it starts gradually; accelerates and builds up energy and momentum; reaches full potential operating at maximum power; then gradually it eases, relaxes and slows; until gently, gently, it returns to stillness and serenity, from whence it came. It is indeed poetic 😊 Thank you for a lovely meditative video

Gobsmacked! I have way too many thoughts but yes, I do count my/our blessings consciously every day.

You could achieve the same of even greater gear reduction with a jack shaft and have different options to spin other pieces of equipment. I have thought about building a giant flywheel for a very long time but never actually took the time to do it. Impressive.

Tim, you have made a work of art! What a joy to watch the big wheel spin! I love your channel.

I'm waiting for every video of your projects.This is what we need. A balance in life. I think one of the contributors did say that the wheel's wooden rim would be scuffed up using the lathe system. Whatever. It gets more exciting with each each episode. I take this opportunity to wish you and Sandra a very Merry Yuletide and thank both of you and your helpers for providing us with such interesting videos.

Very thought provoking. And you understand the wheel of life very well.

The momentum and balance of the wheel and performance of the bearings under all that weight is very impressive. It's a good testimate to your abilities.

I once timed the coast down of a large hydro generator. The 600 ton rotor took 55 minutes to come to rest from 225RPM. This machine normally used brakes to come to rest in about 7-8 minutes IIRC. A large steam turbine generator, rotor weight estimated about 200 tons, also took about 55 minutes from 3600RPM. These were normally allowed to coast to rest.

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

200 tons! What sort of bearings can hold that much weight?

@Henning_S.

Жыл бұрын

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 probably just plain bearings with pressure lubrication like in car engines,

@fredlotte2601

Жыл бұрын

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 The vertical hydro generator has a Kingbury thrust bearing and 3 guide bearings all capable of self lubrication but forced lubed just to be sure. The thrust bearing supports all of the weight + and unbalance from water in the turbine (which is carefully controlled). The steam tubine has a journal bearing at each end of the generator and each turbine section. IIRC the shaft is about 180' long and has 10 bearings. All forced lub. Oil is a very big deal in turbine operation.

Hey Tim you have built a really beautiful thing. Even if I can't see the purpose of crushing charcoal like this, there were a lot of much simpler ways to do it but I am so glad you soldiered on with this thing, it really is a work of art.

"Now.... now.... now.... (etc)....!" Brilliant work, Tim.

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Clive. I hope it was clear what I was doing with the stopwatch?

What a work of art that’s pretty cool that you made this big wheel. I look forward to seeing the project progress along with the first initial testing of grinding the charcoal.

I love the happiness you're always spreading 🥰

Keep these videos coming. I support your channel and watch them to the end every time

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob, will do!

Wow that is really neat Tim, you are a real genius in my eyes!👍👍👍

Thanks for the update!! 👍

I noticed that the counter weight is opposite the handle. It might be near perfect once it comes off. Great video. I have to say my favorite parts are when you are alone and just get things done. An inspiration. Thank you

Thank you for sharing this momentum with us.

Very good Tim & Will and all others who helped... Bravo!

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks guys : - )

What a magnificantly mad project. Loving it.

Most amazing achievement ever. Gouge had no chance at that angle but what an incredible outcome. Inspirational.......thank you so very much sir.

Excellent thing. I look forward to you putting it to work to see what it can do. 😊

What a marvelously beautiful as well as functional machine!

Perfect oportunity to make your little Intro animation real. :)

That is a truly remarkable achievement. Well done.

That's amazing! Excellent craftsmanship!

Interesting project and I love the way you narrate it!

Wonderful job sir! That is just superb.

that wheel is most impressive. an amazing machine. a source of power. well thought out and expertly built. and also mesmerizing. great job sir.

Tim I enjoy Your videos so much. I wish Sandra and you a merry holiday this year.

Wonderful, thank you. I love your videos.

i love watching your videos because they remind me of the projects my late son loved lathe work welding timber work etc he never wanted to be theoretical engineer but a hands on maker of things

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Pru. I'm glad he was able to do (some of ?) the things he wanted to. Lots of people live long lives and never figure that out.

Two videos in one week! I'm excited! This series is very cool, I check quite often for new videos. But don't forget about the railway lol

Well done. Round and round it go's. I love the sound of your sparrows. Good lucky.

Yule some claim comes from the old Norse word for wheel, so this is very suitable content for the season. Very impressed with your engineering!

Love it keep up the great work!

Incredible Tim! I'm admiring your masterpiece from afar in West Bengal. Congratulations on bringing it all to life! 🥳

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

What the! What are you doing there, Joe? : - )

@Joecha61

Жыл бұрын

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 I’m back wandering for a while Tim, doing some courses here and admiring the great Indian railway system on your behalf! 😅

Thanks for uploading this. I really enjoy your videos and projects. I love to tinker, but at a bit smaller scale, so I appreciate the way you think about your projects and what projects you undertake.

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

I'm impressed!

hipnotizing experience, as always great job!

I was half expecting a small local black hole to appear with all that mass 👍🇦🇺

from now, the second half is my favorite video

OUTSTANDING!!

16 minutes. Wow, well done. A big improvement from last time.

Here I am watching your wee wheel turn thinking and thinking, now my head hurts 😜

There's a large park across the street that's empty this time of year, (a Maine winter). I walk my dog there. Just standing still, feeling the open air, looking at the White Mountains is a supreme pleasure. (Nice wheel!)

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Perfct!

Thanks for that interlude Tim, I'm almost horizontal with relaxment now haha

I watch my washing machine sometimes. It is therapeutic. Your wheel is very impressive.

That was a very sneaky sign off. I watched that for a lot longer than I needed to! I have a bunch of tools right here that bring all the inner peace I need.

das ist ja TOLL, im Moment des Stillstandes, hat es sich keinen mm zurück gedreht, alles Richtig gemacht. ❤

Reminds me of playing cards on my bicycle, that would sound wonderful. Hello from USA

This is an amazing project holy moly

Watching the wheel spinning down I thought of a few days ago I was trying to adjust a sensitive level and could not get consistent results for a good 10 minutes then it was stable I think when you spun this wheel up you took some rotational energy from the Earth and it slowly gave back as the bearings friction slowed the wheel

That is amazing Tim

It's just great so far, really great.

Im just watching this thing spin down again. Very relaxing. Kinetic power. Or something.

I've watched zit picking videos, rock crushers working...wood turning on lathes...and now spinning flywheels.

Brilliant design. Well done.

A well balanced life. Enjoyment from a simple spin.

Well that's impressive well balanced!!! Be very interesting how you fit and run the cheese grater😄😄 on the wheel!! Anyway Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Tim & Sandra & family from Australia!!!!

Keep up the good work, Tim.

I kinda love the wheel spinning in contemplative silece at the end :D

Thanks Tim

Add a peice of plastic from a bottle or something to one of the spokes for a nice ticking noise! Kinda like some of us did with bikes as kids! XD What a grand wheel though, it's turned out amazingly

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

You're right - I should have done that : - (

Very interesting project . Good accurate work, proved by your balance weight having to be diametrically opposite the crank of your handle. Regards Les

❤️ Spectacular! ❤️😊

Replace the bearings grease with oil, reduce drag by using doped canvas over the metalwork like dustbin lids or dinner plates. Used on competition bicycles to good effect.

🚧🚧 OUTSTANDING SIR, you are truly a GENIUS 😇👍🧐 🚧🚧

Loved it😊😊👌

Very nice as always

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Kristoffer : - )

@kristofferkaaling8795

Жыл бұрын

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 you are welcome. I really enjoy watching the stuff you make and love hearing it explained in Irish.

I watched it aswell. Thanks for sharing

Since early childhood I’ve had a great interest for flywheels and all things mechanical, kinetic energy in a heavy flywheel to me is as interesting as flight or electric motor’s or even internal combustion engines

Very cool indeed

Poetry in motion !

Great job love your video's

I had to balance a blower a little larger than your flywheel and the before and after was dramatic. I went from wearing earplugs under my ear defenders to being able to remove all hearing protection because the blower was balanced. Really nice job 🍻

Good job Tim! :) Maybe you should put an arrow off to the side when you have it set in place by the engine, and tape a prize note to each section. You can try to guess which one it will finally stop on, and give yourself the matching prize :D That would be a fun way to end each work day ;)

Really cool

Absolute ripper of a job on your momentum wheel. Realistic and practical engineering at it's best! Not sure if you have heard of the design before, but here in the Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia, a charcoal kiln exists from WW2, was used to make commercial quantities of charcoal fuel for, petrol engine gas producer units during the war years. It is know as Kurth kiln, situated in the Gembrook forest. Designer was E E Kurth, built in 1941 and was of a continuous production design. Might be of some interest to you?. As always great vid, look forward to the next one. Cheers mate.

@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Lee. The wiki page doesn't explain the design though, so I'm interested but not much wiser

@leepannett2086

Жыл бұрын

I will get some more info for you, asap. Regards