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#1 2025-04-11 13:26:35
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Zaanse Schaanes Windmill Museum, Holland.
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There were eight large windmills in this open air museum. Here are several of them from a distance.
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#2 2025-04-11 13:40:52
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Re: Zaanse Schaanes Windmill Museum, Holland.
This is a spice mill. It wasn't running today.
Here is a view of the interior.
Here is another view showing the millstones and table.
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#3 2025-04-11 13:48:42
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Re: Zaanse Schaanes Windmill Museum, Holland.
This is the paint mill 'De Kat'. The millstones grind coloured pigments.
The millstone and table.
These wooden bevel gears connect the main downshaft to the horizontal shaft driving the grindwheels. I was surprised to see wooden gears. These were obsolete by the 19th century as friction within them can consume up to half of the mechanical power captured by the driveshaft.
This wheel is located on the furling platform. It allows the mill to be steered into the wind. English mills of the same era use a fantail that automatically steers the mill into the wind. But this never caught on in Holland.
The view from the furling platform over the wetlands surrounding Zaanse Schaans. This landscape is typical of what I have seen in Holland. None of the land is more than a few feet above sealevel.
Tomorrow I will post images of the woodmill, which you can see here across the water.
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#4 2025-04-12 12:37:27
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Re: Zaanse Schaanes Windmill Museum, Holland.
Het Jonge Schaap is a wind powered sawmill. One of the mill mechanisms is a winch that pulls logs up a ramp, out of the water.
Prior to sawing, logs are stored in floating pens.
Each log is cut into boards. Several sawblades are mounted within a rack that slides up and down within a frame. This allows sawing to be driven by a crank that is driven by the mill downshaft using a bevel gear.
Here are the blades in action. The log is fed through the blades automatically. The miller told me that the saw blades will typically cut 2m per hour. The number of logs sawn can be varied by bringing additional racks online and offline. During strong winds, all three saw racks will be operating simultaneously.
Sawdust drops into boxes beneath the mill floor.
An artistic rendition.
The finished boards exit the mill onto this table.
Finished product stored in a shed close to the mill. Here, it dries before finishing.
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#5 Yesterday 12:10:22
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Re: Zaanse Schaanes Windmill Museum, Holland.
Pictures from Haarlem.
This is the courtyard in the Frans Hals museum.
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#6 Yesterday 15:06:11
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Re: Zaanse Schaanes Windmill Museum, Holland.
Edam and Volandam
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#7 Yesterday 15:23:51
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Re: Zaanse Schaanes Windmill Museum, Holland.
Amsterdam
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