Focus op stellingmolen de knokmolen in Ruiselede Photo Gallery by Patrick Goossens at pbase.com

Focus op stellingmolen de knokmolen in Ruiselede

This stone towermill dates back to 1840 and has a concrete gallery around the mill. This is a very special mill because here you can see the evolution of the industrialisation of milling. The use of iron and an old diesel one-cylinder engine was installed in 1953 for driving a technical milling station on the ground floor. This was used when there was no wind. The family running this mill is also very known because the grandfather who deceased in 2020 was also a mill builder who restored a lot of mills. Today his son and son in law continues to restore and rebuild mills. The Daughter and granddaughter are working the mill and they do this very well.

De knokmolen from 1840, a must see windmill in Belgium	Susy and daughter Yana	Susy the miller	Yana turning the windmill in the wind direction
Susy turning the mill in the right wind direction.	Unlocking the air brakes	Working together unlocking the air brake	Windshaft withg extra weight on the bearing to make a better balance.
The miller checking the teeth	Crawling trough the brakewheel 1	Crawling trough the brakewheel 2	Greasing the front bearing with pork fat
Checking the brakesystem and lowering the rope to operate it.	Unlocking the brakewheel	View from the brakewheel towards the back.	Windshaft with extra weight and left the brakebeam made of metal and some extra weights
View on the windshafts backend with a lot of extra weight for a better balance and to provide the juming of the end.	Brakebeam with extra weights added	Windshaft back bearing	Windshaft front bearing
Cap rollers	Chicken ladder to go up in the cap	Crownwheel	Perfect fit and connection
This is the sack hoist floor	Winch for lifting the millstones when needed.	Sack hoist system	The drivegear with belt for the sack hoist system
Winch with y-wheel	Drivegear for the sack hoist system	Bringing product from the barn	Pulling up the sack with the sack hoist system
One more floor	Arriving at the stone floor	Lowering a bit to put it on the support	Opening the sack
Emptying the sack in the hopper	Blocking the shaft with a wooden block	Fixing the shaft with a wooden block through the floor above	The miller engages the gear.
Vertical shaft with spurwheel, cogged pinions and the millstones with wooden casing	View on the hopper and Iron spindle that drives the runner stone.	View on the large spurwheel	The stonefloor with 3 pair of millstones
Hopper with feed shoe	Partially opened wood casing from a pair of millstones.	Connection is OK	Large spurwheel with smaller cogged pinion gear
On top of the spurwheel	The beautiful spurwheel	Upright shaft with large spurwheel	A breathtaking view upwards
The spoutfloor	The spotfloor 2	Double flourchute	Miller workpost
At the workpost	Overseeing the flourchute	Quality check	Sack is almost full
New sack in place		The miller busy with adjusting the process of grinding.	The controls
Blocks to put between the millstones if they have to be lifted	The centrifugal governor	Electricity old style	A weight of old nuts
The hook to hold the sack open	heavy weight for the controls	The bell	The use of recuperated beams from an old mill
Scale	Jute sacks	A huge scale	Weights
Weights	Flywheel from the engine	Blackstone Diesel engine 37 HP	Sifting the flour
All kinds of machines for processing the grain and flour.	Elevator system	Left the belt pulley coming from the dieselengine	Teaching the next generation
Pulling the brake to stop the mill

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