I Built DaVinci's Saw Mill

foreign [Music] pretty much everything we use today comes with some level of production extraction and refinement for most of History this had to be done by hand and made most items pretty expensive and labor-intensive but today we can buy so many things for a very cheap price do you ever wonder how we got to where we are now in this video I'm going to explore one of the early human Technologies the first Hub to reduce the cost of Labor and make things a bit cheaper using some inspiration from inventor Leonardo da Vinci I'm going to attempt to build a water powered machine that will automatically Mill a log using just a power of water so let's try and build this machine and see if it'll actually work and make my first baby step towards my own Industrial Revolution [Music] Milling wood is a lot of work and I did my own video on this kind of exploring just to see just how difficult it was and needless to say it was a bit exhausting and slow so it's not that much of a surprise that some of the first industrialized machines were for the purpose of Milling wood historically a few versions have existed throughout time mine I'm going to take a little bit of inspiration from inventor Leonardo da Vinci who drew a rough sketch of a design in 1478. the drawing is pretty rough and it's believed to actually be based on some earlier drawings by some other artists but does provide the inspiration for a pretty sophisticated Sawmill and this is going to be basically five components to it first up is water wheel which will provide the actual Force to the machine second is going to be a support structure which basically going to hold the saw and everything up above the wheel so we can have mechanisms below it then there's going to be the actual saw which is in a frame and then the track that slides up and down below that isn't going to be a crank mechanism which turns the rotational force of the water wheel into a reciprocating motion to bring the saw up and down this is going to be a sled that the woods sits on that is slowly pulled through and to actually pull it is going to be a ratcheting system to slowly pull the car bit by bit through the saw at this point I've been able to do a few projects and knock out a few parts of this most notably is the water wheel which I did in a previous video so that's pretty much ready to go compared to his design my wheel is a lot bigger and has actually an overshot rather than undershot I think this should all give me some advantages with power then another piece I already have which is actually the very first project in this series of making a sawmill and that is natural saw blade that we forged before and then built into a frame it's like this is a nice starting point with a wheel and a saw frame so next up we just gotta build a main support structure which will be kind of the skeleton of this we'll touch the wheel to it set that up as the main structure and hopefully you can get this thing to work [Music] new technology that we recently unlocked thanks to some help from some new assistance I have with Elliot and Theo we're able to build a nail header and that allows us to mass produce Nails a little bit quicker and thanks to that Mario to get a nice supply of nails to use to help hold everything together foreign [Music] of the wood for the frame here and basically what I'm making is more or less a bed frame so we have the legs here I'm going to elevate to the right floor and we're going to have an outer frame here to get this really secure so we don't need to brace it too much with wood I'm going to use some joinery in combination with nails rather than just straight nailing and that should give us a tighter fit and hopefully something pretty solid that we can stand on and work on so what I'm going to try and do is called a castle joint which is often used in furniture which seems fitting for this I have basically cut three different joints to form a corner at each one and it should produce a really strong hold and should hopefully get a pretty strong result [Music] [Applause] thank you thank you I save all joinery cut for all pieces of wood here so everything should hopefully in theory snap together and form a pretty strong base we have the castle joints here these little intersect each other and then we have the legs the four points now insert into there you should have a pretty strong platform just to hold it all together got some Nails we can throw in there to really hold it up maybe even throw a little bit of glue [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you so somehow stable [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] we've forged out some small four inch shafts one end we have upset so it's a little bit larger diameter than the rest of the shot on the other end we drew out into a small nub so the idea is we've made a bunch of these little washers here things washers [Music] second washer and then we can bend over this nub and lock everything in place we'll see how it works [Music] [Music] it rolls [Music] but first thank you to the sponsor of today's video the brand new sound core space one when it comes to the projects I make it involves a lot of slow and sometimes meticulous handiwork usually with some loud noises from smithing or woodworking lately I've gotten hooked on listening to audiobooks while I work to help pass the time and if I'm going to listen to something I need to be able to filter out all the noise around me so I can hear the actual book so I really appreciate a good pair of noise canceling headphones Suncor sent me a pair of their brand new Space 1 headphones and I'm pretty impressed the space one adapts to your environment with adaptive noise canceling this Advanced Tech detects external sounds and sound leakage automatically fine-tuning the noise reduction for Optimal Performance even if you don't have a perfect seal around your ears the space one is engineered with an upgraded noise canceling structure that knocks out any outside voices like 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arm here and we have a pivot here and then the drop arm right in like that and the idea is the arm will come down and just very slowly increment the ratchet [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] we just did a test run of it without a log in there and everything looks to be going pretty good we have some small issues it could potentially be a problem um we had to add this little kind of walk on the ratchet just so it doesn't backspin there's a little bit of play with the wheel the lock but uh I think we'll see once we get it pretty good it might might require a little uh babysitting but the most part I seems for working I think we tried to mostly use wood components which is pretty historical but there are some parts we might eventually find we need to redo a metal thank you [Music] everything actually works pretty good it's honestly pretty surprising for kind of simple design but it's like complicated enough it's actually kind of oppressive I think might be a little bit of fine tuning but I think we pretty much got out here so just put a log in there and see what happens [Music] [Music] thank you suspense is killing me [Music] once the log finally reached the saw everything seemed to run smoothly overall The Cutting was a lot slower than I expected but the saw slowly made progress Through the Wood I think optimizing the speed and rate of cutting is something that can only be done with a fair amount of tweaking to the design trying to get just the right amount of tension on The Cutting Surface versus putting too much pressure on it and causing it to bind making all these tweaks is probably only going to be possible when it's fully running and however the largest challenge turned out to be the components I didn't build the water pump that simulated our power source a Rushing River proved to be difficult to keep running with a consistent flow leaves and other debris kept clogging it slowing down the flow or straight up stopping the water it was a bit chaotic trying to clear it to get the flow back up and running and ultimately the pump ended up burning itself out in the process so ultimately the machine ended up running pretty slow not the most efficient and my River kind of ended up breaking but all things considered I think I would call this a success we've been able to put together a relatively complex machine based on just a rough sketch from several centuries ago by Da Vinci and all the components actually work it's a little disappointing that the the whole river ended up breaking down before we could finish the log it did progress enough they were able to tell that it is working while it is running pretty slow and would probably take a while to actually solve a full log the main advantage with the Sawmill is that you're not really wearing yourself out if you were to do it by hand you could probably do it quicker but you're going to get tired and not be able to do it all day here with the Sawmill you can just run this thing continuously it's never going to get tired so ideally we hopefully can speed it up and I think that's just kind of the relationship of the different components of the ratcheting wheel and how fast it pushes it through and how much pressure and how fast the saw can go so I think the issues with the speed are probably more just based on the interpretations of the drawing that I did I think just some tweaking we could actually get it to work pretty good and the issue with the river kind of basically runny dry is actually probably kind of fitting because a lot of river sources would be seasonal and the best time to basically run your Mill would be in the spring when a bunch of snow melts and you get a really strong flow right now we're entering into fall after a bit of a drought if this was set up for real I likely wouldn't be able to run it now anyways that being said I did design the water wheel to fit onto a trailer so that potentially could move it to a water source and get it running actually finding one where it can actually transport it and put it there is easier said than done um so it's going to be an ongoing search and it might end up being something that I can only do in the spring at a certain location so the hope is at some point you get this actually plugged into a real River you have to do some tweaking and redesigning to try and find a better way to simulate the water and hopefully you can get a little bit more consistent and long running results to actually Mill some logs very impressed with this result this is a surprisingly complex machine very much the largest project I built and the fact that it runs as well as it does is it's just kind of fascinating it's both simple and complex so it's definitely a really interesting topic to explore and I hope to make some more industrial machines pretty soon and see how advanced we can get with this thank you again to all my supporters on patreon without you guys doing these more long-term projects wouldn't be 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Length: 16min 52sec (1012 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 10 2023