I have always admired the skill of making these water wheels, such a crude construction but it worked well and did the job, rather an improvement over the labour intensive Shaduf. There are several I know of in and around Luxor and no doubt many that I don’t know about. I seem to recall that some time ago the Dr acquired one and turned it into a table of some sort?
This one was at the tourist farm out on the Movenpick road, it was an interesting place if you wanted to actually see one working. They were always willing to harness up the cow or push it around by hand if necessary, they also had a very nice working Shaduf.
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This one was in the grounds of the old Movenpick hotel on the then ‘Crocodile Island’ not sure if it still exists after all the new building work that went on there.
Here are a few more from my old image folder.