gumberaberschonendanker: Cormorant on mill just outside Stiens
gumberaberschonendanker: Looking up at the Stiens windmill -- outer part of leading edge is reversed as brake
gumberaberschonendanker: (part of) Kuiper family
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gumberaberschonendanker: A lot of reeds...
gumberaberschonendanker: Really a lot of reeds.
gumberaberschonendanker: Reed roof close-up
gumberaberschonendanker: View partway up
gumberaberschonendanker: 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)
gumberaberschonendanker: Wooden gears (connecting main shaft to vertical shaft)
gumberaberschonendanker: Lisa is enchanted by mill learning
gumberaberschonendanker: 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
gumberaberschonendanker: Stages of milling (and different products)
gumberaberschonendanker: Gadgetry -- guys these are all reaaaaally big
gumberaberschonendanker: Lisa and Jan in the main milling room
gumberaberschonendanker: De Hoop mill in Steins
gumberaberschonendanker: Dang check out that semi-symmetric framing
gumberaberschonendanker: Covering bases
gumberaberschonendanker: Interloper -- this parrot was in Amsterdam.
gumberaberschonendanker: Pumping mill with cormorants
gumberaberschonendanker: Pumping mill -- filling in leading edge slats
gumberaberschonendanker: Apparatus for rotating the windmill
gumberaberschonendanker: Jan working hard to reorient the mill to the wind
gumberaberschonendanker: Pumping mill, with first two sails on