Thread: Amazing Wooden Machine with No Metals

That is neat! I don't have the patience to do something like that. Watching him operate and explain made me grin.

Paul

Well he shows anyway what you can do with wood, much more than many people think.
Think on the mechanic of a Dutch windmill, it's all wood, and running like a train for hundreds of years.

Originally Posted by Ad de Crom

Well he shows anyway what you can do with wood, much more than many people think.
Think on the mechanic of a Dutch windmill, it's all wood, and running like a train for hundreds of years.

True ,
and not just the Dutch ones either , all of them going back to the first ones , the windmills of Persia eh .

Rube Goldberg lives!!!

That is absolutely amazing! Thanks for posting this.
That gentleman has the mind of an engineer, the patience of Job, and way too much time on his hands.

Originally Posted by Ad de Crom

Well he shows anyway what you can do with wood, much more than many people think.
Think on the mechanic of a Dutch windmill, it's all wood, and running like a train for hundreds of years.

In an early National Geographic I have seen around 5 foot diameter gears at right angles made by building up wheels like ox cart wheels and putting pegs around the outside edge at right angles to the flat of the wheel. The pegs meshed like putting your fingers together and changed the angle of the drive 90 degrees. I think it was used in a sugar mill in South America.

Also I have seen photos of Chinese water wheels, driven by the stream, lifting water 70 to 100 feet, made entirely of bamboo lashed together with vines, buckets made from large bamboo sections. Axles running in wood bearings.

Ox carts were made with minimal or no iron fasteners, axles running in wood greased with tallow. Ox yokes made with a carved beam and a bent pole around the neck and through the beam to keep it on.

I have read of big public clocks in Europe made entirely of wood. Google reveals nothing.

More recently, see for wood bearings:

http://www.woodex-meco.com/

http://machinedesign.com/ContentItem...ebearings.aspx

As all of us here know, wood is neat stuff.

Paul

That's great work, I loved it! Seems like a showpiece of various mechanisms through the years, and a showpiece of timber varieties. I especially like the idea that it comes apart in units, very well thought out.
I also followed a link from there to another guy's mechanical masterpiece, throwing marbles into a carved dragon's mouth.
Thanks for posting it, Jock.

My pleasure Andy ,
The first wee film I came across of his was the part 2 of this , where he had tickled it up a bit , it lead me to this one ........ now I can't find it

Originally Posted by Manuka Jock

My pleasure Andy ,
The first wee film I came across of his was the part 2 of this , where he had tickled it up a bit , it lead me to this one ........ now I can't find it

Found it

The toebone´s connected to the footbone, the footbone´s connected to the anklebone..............Simple, really.

Originally Posted by artme

The toebone´s connected to the footbone, the footbone´s connected to the anklebone..............Simple, really.

same number of bones too