Focus on tower mill Stenen bergmolen in Rijkevorsel Photo Gallery by Patrick Goossens at pbase.com

Focus on tower mill Stenen bergmolen in Rijkevorsel

This brick mill was built in 1861-62 and replaced a post mill that burnt down. The mill stayed active until 1960. A few years later, the mill became a café and a disco bar. After a fire in 1981 that came to an end. In 1996 the town bought the mill with surrounding land and was followed by a restoration in 2000-2001, after which the mill was opened again. There is a large team of voluntary millers that will guide you through the mill and if there is wind, they show you how it all works. This mill has one pair of millstones.The meaning of mound mill, means that this mill is surrounded by an artificial mound of earth, allowing the miller to dress his sails with canvas from a convenient height since the spout floor or workfloor is a few meters above ground level. In the past, the farmers could ride with their horse drawn wagons or cart through the mill to unload or load product.

De Stenen beltmolen from 1862	The many windows of this mill		Tail
Tail with winch to turn the mill into the wind	one of the sails with attached canvas	Roller system to turn the 15 tonnes of weight from the cap	Frontbearing of the windshaft
Backbearing of the windshaft	Windshaft with brakewheel and 2 pieces of porkfat to grease the bearings	Windshaft with brakewheel	Brakesystem
Brakewheel with brake around.	Brakesystem achor point	Flemish block brake	Counterbrake
View on the achors of the black tailbeam	Chickenladder to go up in the cap	The large lantern wheel mounted on top of the vertical shaft	Windshaft with large horizontal friction wheel
The sack hoist system on the floor under the cap	Friction wheel left and Y-Wheel on the right	The Y-wheel	Weight for the balance of the sack hoist system
Some old pulleys	Old pulley	Vertical shaft with large spurwheel	View up on the large spurwheel
Spurwheel - lantern gear connection	Lantern gear from the millstones	Construction of the spurwheel	The teeth of the spurwheel
Large spurwheel on the vertical windshaft	Complete grinding chair	Millstones with wooden casing.	Complete view on the millstones with casing and driveshaft
Wooden casing around the stones	View on the wooden casing around the millstones	Hopper with gate	Hopper with gate and feed shoe
Leather belt to manage the distance between the stones	Supportpoint for the vertical shaft.
Old scale	The spout floor were the flour arrives through the flourchutes	The flourchute and workpost of the miller	The flourchute and workpost of the miller
A modern floorscoop	Wooden flourscoop	Old blackboard with the prices of services	Old metal parts used as a weight to control the millsones
Weights are always present in a mill	A pulley belt system to drive all the different machines that were once in this mill	Old crusher machine used in an oilmill, that was once next to this mill	Old blackstone diesel engine from 1950
Old blackstone diesel engine from 1950	Old blackstone diesel engine from 1950	Some more machinery that was often found in a windmill.	A mill on the groundfloor
An old mill stone in the yard around the mill

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