The water comes from the hills around the wheel.

exactly. kinda the most important thing to explain in " how it works"

I was on the IOM in 2014 and had a look at the wheel, it is a fantastic thing to see and climb on. I think you should have another look at the video and you can see how it works.

The Wikipedia article isn't great but somewhere nearby there is a cistern with an outlet that is only slightly higher than the outlet conduit at the wheel. I agree that the drone should have flown over the entire site to show the location of the cistern.

They collected the water from the nearby hills and piped it down to the wheel.

@@carlbethea1098 🇫🇷 Bonjour et merci pour ces jolies images ! Je ne connaissais pas cette installation, magnifique. Pour mieux comprendre, fort simplement d’où arrive la force motrice, en plus de vos explications ci-dessus, j’ai trouvé cette petite animation. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y51zp7R6ldLIgXk.htmlfeature=shared Merci et bonne continuation. M

I haven't been on-line in a while. The music came with my video editor, Pinnacle Studio 22.

@@carlbethea1098 Thanks. Really gets the foot tapping.

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@@Jp-hv9zj No: Those features should have been dealt with in the video.

The water comes from the hills around the wheel.

@@jandoerlidoe3412 lighten up Francis!

Afaik The wheel was relocated. It originally came from sneafell mine near laxey

@@the_retagThis wheel is in its original location. The wheel from the Snaefell mine is now in The Washing Floors down near the main A2 road. The link described in the video as an extended crankshaft should surely be called the connecting rod. The crankshaft is the axle of the wheel as it’s the shaft that carries the crank.

The pumps are at the bottom of the mine. I don’t think they were ever taken out and now the mine flooded so they’ll probably never get moved. The wheel was built to drive the pumps so of course they’re part of the system.

The water comes from the hills around the wheel.

According to Wikipedia this large water wheel was built because the island has no indigenous coal to power a steam engine. To burn coal requires a coal handling facility from the quay to the engine site plus coal creates ash which must also be disposed. Back then the ash could have been dumped in the river but even that might build up over time enough to cause the river to overflow its banks which could cause flooding that the company might have been compelled to ameliorate. Apparently this was the less expensive method to power pumps to drain the mine.

@@curtislowe4577 Thank you! they might have told the WHOLE story!

@@fredwood1490 Most KZfaqrs are little more than tourists. Delving into history in order to present a whole story isn't their cup of tea. Quite a few KZfaqrs aren't really interested in technical details either. They like to show old technology but they have no appreciation for the underlying physics, thermodynamics or material science that was necessary to create the machine.

@@curtislowe4577 In this case, that would be me. Tourist is exactly the right term too. You tube is a vast encyclopedia and I have always enjoyed surfing through encyclopedias and huge dictionaries, history books and popular science journals, getting a keyhole view of exotic things but, I do follow up, sometimes, if an article hints at something deeper. In this case, the Wheel itself was all they were interested in so that was the entire exploration. Can you imagine the maintenance on that linkage, it must be at least a mile long! Still and all, the supply train for than pump system could just as easily have accommodated a coal train of barges up that little river, or a wood train for that matter, from the surrounding area, much like the train that brought all that iron into the place in the first place. Of course, you are right, if it had been economically feasible, they would have done it that way. On the other hand, a few years later and there would have been electricity for use in the mine, needing a much smaller wheel for generation and little of the mechanical system. But that was not to be. So, being a tourist on the Information Highway does have some uses.

The mine water polluted the river with an assortment of heavy metals.