Talk:Laxey Wheel

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Additional photo[edit]

If anyone wants, here's my other photo of the Laxey Wheel. Goyston talk, contribs, play 01:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Water wheel[edit]

Question was it an overshot waterwheel ? I don’t see a flume above. How was the water transferred to the top of the wheel? 2600:8800:2084:C300:7CA8:8FAE:856E:1B9 (talk) 03:49, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Stated in the article Technical section:

Water from the surrounding area – including a number of local springs and streams – is collected in a cistern, which is above the level of the top of the wheel. A closed pipe connects the cistern to the top of the wheel; thus the water flows up the tower as an inverted syphon. The water falls from the pipe into the buckets (formed from wooden slats on the circumference) and makes the wheel rotate in what is described as the 'reverse' direction: it is a pitchback wheel.

--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 15:56, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Working water wheel?[edit]

A drive-by IP has been deleting lede content and ref, asserting that the 2017-era chinese water wheel created for a tourist village is the largest.

The IP has further asserted in the edit summary of a second deletion that the Laxey wheel "...is not a working waterwheel and hasn't worked for many years. It is just a tourist attraction".

This youtube video - showing the wheel rotating - is dated as 2018, and this one as 17 Oct 2022 but may not be the actual capture date.

If any IoM based editor(s) can clarify if it is still capable of turning, and whether it is water-driven (as compared with electrical conversion) please comment. Obviously, as with heritage steam engines, I expect that movement is only enabled periodically. Thanks.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 14:10, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Even if today it is not used for pumping, the fact remains that it was build as a practical industrial machine. According to the Guiness Book of Records recording the Danzhai wheel: "The wooden landscape waterwheel was built as part of the launch of a new tourist village in Danzhai", so it was built as a replica tourist attraction. Hence Rocknrollmancer's entirely accurate edit: "It is the largest surviving original working waterwheel in the world" [my emphasis]. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 16:25, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

MADE IN WIGAN TOWN CENTRE[edit]

Why is there no mention of the Laxey Wheel being made in Wigan? It is said that it was built on the market square and floated down the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to Liverpool then sent over on a boat. We did a project about it when I was at school in Wigan and we were told that it was made in Haigh Foundry, which is near Wigan. The teacher told us that most things were made in Wigan in the olden days, especially things made out of cast iron like steam trains and steam aeroplanes because Wigan was where the industrial revolution took place, on the market square. And Marks and Spencers was founded in Wigan too.

Wally of Wigan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.249.162 (talk) 13:38, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Flatrod system[edit]

Laxey Wheel is mentioned in a question at Talk:Flatrod system Martin of Sheffield (talk) 16:48, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]