The mill - making flour! Wood and machinery, working with water.

Just video and pictures of the mill's woodwork and machinery, and the milling process.

First, watch the milling process video, looking for these elements: sieving the wheat, filling the hopper, feeding the wheel, the mill mechanism, waste water, bagging the flour, the final product!

Did you notice the wheel is a particular type of wheel?

The overshot wheel.

The inside of the mill in pictures.

Hoist

Lifts the grain from the meal floor (bottom) through the stone floor (middle) to the garner floor (top) so it can drop through the milling process, under gravity.

Small gear

Dropped onto large gear below, winding rope to lift sacks.

The miller's main workplace.

The miller works here, bagging flour and controlling all the mill's functions from here - the sack hoist, the speed of grain feeding into stones and the gap between stones, to produce fine or coarse flour.

Gears

The large cast iron gear is driven directly by the waterwheel, providing speeded up rotation of the large, vertical wooden shaft that powers the millstones, via the large wooden spur gear, which was made in 2023.

Original spur gear

Failed in 2022. Brought to an end grain milling for some time.

Elm spur gear, visible under the stairs.

Note the new pear wood teeth.

Trap door.

The miller's access stairs trapdoor, from the garner to the stone floor. To save running around outside.

Home built apple scratter and apple press.

Old millers' tools.

On the left are handles for the stone-dressing cutters, used to cut grain control grooves in the millstones.

The mill's interior, full of atmosphere.

The process of mill restoration - short film here:

And here it is - the finished product!

Link to main landing page

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