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Retired British Man Builds 25m Cookoo Clock So He Won't Be Late Again
The 25ft tall water-powered structure houses a 3ft wooden cuckoo which pops out every hour to the sound of a pipe organ.
It is powered by a complex system of cantilevers, counterweights and pulleys which convert energy from a stream.
Retired Richard, 72, used his experience as a hydrogeologist to design and build the wooden structure at his water gardens in Herefordshire.
He said: “I think it’s quite fun and rather beautiful. I wanted to make something that made people laugh. It took a while to build, but I did almost all the work myself.
“I had a local carpenter and local machinists help me with some of the frame and the metalworking though.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/397360/Gardener-who-spent-20-000-building-a-giant-clock-not-cuckoo
It is powered by a complex system of cantilevers, counterweights and pulleys which convert energy from a stream.
Retired Richard, 72, used his experience as a hydrogeologist to design and build the wooden structure at his water gardens in Herefordshire.
He said: “I think it’s quite fun and rather beautiful. I wanted to make something that made people laugh. It took a while to build, but I did almost all the work myself.
“I had a local carpenter and local machinists help me with some of the frame and the metalworking though.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/397360/Gardener-who-spent-20-000-building-a-giant-clock-not-cuckoo