Mill specifications and notes
– Measurements (specifications)
- Diameter of building (ground level / external) – 7,94 m
- Diameter of building (Ground level / internal) – 5,64 m
- Height of wall – 6,68 m ( random stone to 2,25 m then unbaked bricks to top of wall)
- Thickness of wall (ground level) – 1,15 m
- Diameter of earthen platform around mill – 15,44 m
- No of anchor points – 12
- Span of sails – 14,25 metres
- Diameter of brakewheel – 770 mm
- No of cogs on brakewheel – 47
- No of staves of lantern pinion – 16
- 1 revolution of sails gives 2,94 revolutions of runner stone
- Diameter of millstones – 1,175 m
Materials (with date of installation in brackets)
Wall – random stone to 2,25 m height Vertical shaft – …. (original; (possibly a sailing ship’s topmast)
Unbaked bricks around openings and from top of stone to top of wall
Brake wheel – oak (1995)
Lime plaster, lime-wash Roof – thatch on poles of poplar (1995)
Cogs of brakewheel – beech (1995)
Stocks – Corten steel (rust resistant steel)
Brake blocks – willow (1935)
Sails – sailbars and uplongs of red cedar
Staves of lantern pinion gear – acacia (1995)
Sailcloths – canvas Windboards – cedar
Runner stone – (original)
Tailbeam – teak (from original windshaft)
Bedstone – quote from old records – “een oude Duitse blauwe steen, afkomstig uit den vroegeren korenmolen van Leens (Groningen)” (1935)
Windshaft – Iroco (1986)
Dressing of millstones (cut grooves) – common harp dressing on runner-stone, sickle dressing on the bedstone
