Focus op stellingmolen mevrouwmolen in Kanegem Photo Gallery by Patrick Goossens at pbase.com

Focus op stellingmolen mevrouwmolen in Kanegem

This towermill with gallery was built in 1843 after it's predecessor, a wooden postmill burnt down. On the groundfloor these used to be an oil mill too, but this was removed in 1894. The mill activity stopped in 1954. In 1970 the mill was allready in a very bad state. Due to a lot of financial problems it was only in 2015 that a solution was found. Renovation started in 2016 end ended in 2018. The mill interior is almost completely new. Just a few old pieces could be saved and reused. It's a very imposing mill, visible from a far distance and the present millers keep the mill working as it should be.

The Mevrouwmolen overlooking the fields.	Wintertime	View on the gallery	Springtime
Great clouds	Farmland all around	The winch	Handling the brakerope.
Unfolding the canvas	folding the canvas or cloth.	Using force to handle the cloth or canvas	The very spacious cap
Windshaft with front bearing (sails side)	Greased wel	Windshaft back bearing (Tail side)
Fixing of the tooth	Brakewheel with vertical shaft and gear	Brakwheel and windshaft	Brakewheel in motion
From horizontal to vertical	The large brakebeam	Brakebeam with sword and extra weight	Anchor point of the brake
Brakesystem	Carrying collar ring	The chicken ladder	Counterbrake
The roller system	Changing gear	Sack hoist system	Sack hoist system detail
Sack hoist system	runner stone hanging in the stone crane	The wooden spurwheel	upright shaft with wooden gear to drive the millstones
1 pair of millstones and the lever to manage them	The runner attached to the stone crane	Stonecrane detail	Stonecrane detail
View up on the spuwheel and higher up, the sack hoist winch	Drivegear and feeder	Millstones and feeder	The feeder
Flour chute and oat crusher	Flour chute	Old gear for the oil mill	Gear, Iron and wood
Belt and pulley	Belt connection	The oatcrusher	Filling the feeder of the oatcrusher
Checking the crusher	Waiting for the sack to be filled	Chit chat	Checking quality
Closing the sacks	Future miller moving crushed oat
Miller Kris hoisting Sacks	Ruud Hoisting sacks	Miller Ruud and his father Rudy	Miller Ruud overseeing the process
Some old pieces thar survived the decay before the mill was renovated	A small collection of machines to crush or clean the grain.

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