We were doing inspections on Monday and the Sisters Harrington and Perry invited us to go to a Molen (Windmill) in the city. You can take a tour of the inside of the Molen.
This molen burned down before WWII. The town decided to rebuild it. The original Molen was built on top of one of the original city gates. Windmills are constructed with wooden pegs instead of nails so that it can be disassembled and move to another location. The windmill is not attached to the foundation. It is heavy enought that it will not blow over. At the peak of windmill usage, there were 11,000. Now there are about 1000 left. Windmills were used for pumping water, milling grain, sawing wood and making vegatable oil.
This shows the grinding wheel inside the windmill. Our tour guide is telling us how the stone can be removed to have the grinding groves refurbished. There would be four stones located at this level.
These women are moving the windmill so it will face the wind. The lady in the pink jacket recently certified as a windmill operator after 3 years of training. The other lady is training.
When we left we turned and saw that they were running the windmill. That is the second time I had seem one in operation. The first time was in Deventer two week prior.
Here are the beautiful Sisters Harrington, Perry and Everton
We saw this molen on the way to Stake Conference in Noordwijk. Note the paddle on the side which is used to pump the water up to the canal. We passed by the windmill on the way home from conference and it was operating.
We passed this windmill on the way to stake confernece also. The shape is different. I think it is for pumping water only but seeing the round molen pumping water makes me unsure now. I will have to check that out.
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