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Cormorant on mill just outside Stiens
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Looking up at the Stiens windmill -- outer part of leading edge is reversed as brake
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(part of) Kuiper family
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A lot of reeds...
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Really a lot of reeds.
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Reed roof close-up
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View partway up
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I was particularly taken with the aesthetics of this hanging lard used to grease the blocks that the top part of the mill rotates on (not shown)
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top floor!
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Wooden gears (connecting main shaft to vertical shaft)
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Lisa is enchanted by mill learning
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Looking down on the main milling room -- millstones are under the big cylinders, upper left is a gear that can be engaged or disengaged to the main vertical shaft
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Stages of milling (and different products)
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Gadgetry -- guys these are all reaaaaally big
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Lisa and Jan in the main milling room
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De Hoop mill in Steins
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Goat I
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Dang check out that semi-symmetric framing
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Covering bases
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Goat crop
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Sleepy bunny
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Awake bunny
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Interloper -- this parrot was in Amsterdam.
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Pumping mill with cormorants
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Pumping mill -- filling in leading edge slats
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Apparatus for rotating the windmill
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Jan working hard to reorient the mill to the wind
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Pumping mill, with first two sails on