Falkirk Wheel (26 pics + 1 gif)

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The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift located in Scotland, UK, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, opened in 2002. It is named after the nearby town of Falkirk which is in central Scotland. The two canals were previously connected by a series of 11 locks, but by the 1930s these had fallen into disuse, were filled in and the land built upon.



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№1 Author: bagofbrokenglass (5 Aug 2011 03:55) Total user comments: 116


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sweet!
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№2 Author: plaidpancake (5 Aug 2011 04:07) Total user comments: 2475


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yay! wheels
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№3 Author: punchythekid (5 Aug 2011 08:28) Total user comments: 317


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that is so incredibly bad ass. 04
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№4 Author: Lord Dodo (5 Aug 2011 09:32) Total user comments: 2064


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I was a week on a houseboat on the Canals of Netherlands... sadly, they don't need/have a thing like this 02
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№5 Author: davbob (5 Aug 2011 09:46) Total user comments: 22


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Yaya one of those pictures is mine! I lived in Falkirk for 30 years and they spent about 90 million building this thing, looks cool but serves no real purpose as hardly any boats still use the canal.
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№6 Author: Gyselinck (5 Aug 2011 11:01) Total user comments: 3133


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Would like to see that !!
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№7 Author: m0ck0 (5 Aug 2011 12:20) Total user comments: 149


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davbob purposes are so over ratedated nowadays
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№8 Author: thesoulshaker (5 Aug 2011 12:34) Total user comments: 1384


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Gr8 Stuff.. 04 04
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№9 Author: farmhand (5 Aug 2011 16:28) Total user comments: 163


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That is a cool piece on engineering 12 04
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№10 Author: mahedi (5 Aug 2011 17:39) Total user comments: 10772


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Its huge 04
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№11 Author: ImKindaAwesome (5 Aug 2011 19:47) Total user comments: 714


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04 That is fucking awesome
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№12 Author: jP (5 Aug 2011 22:02) Total user comments: 1018


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"Welcome, today on MegaStructures we're @....!"
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That's really a nice peace of work, were there Dutch people involved with this project?
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№13 Author: raymond.wendt (5 Aug 2011 23:34) Total user comments: 9115


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engineering masterpiece! brilliant!
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№14 Author: DocMcCoy (6 Aug 2011 23:52) Total user comments: 6039


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Too bad it's a boondoggle. It sure looks cool. 12
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