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Cast iron wallowers
Drawing of cast iron wallowers at Deeze Hoek (Piquetberg) and Compagne's Drift (Bot River, Caledon).
Suggested restoration of water-wheel
Drawing of the suggested restoration of a water-wheel, depicting detail of a wooden trough (launder), a 3 in x 4 in spoke, a trough, 4 iron bars, a shaft, a mill wall and a pit wheel. Details are also provided of a section ...
Rotary-querns
Drawings of rotary querns, depicting detail of Cedarberg, Roodeheuvel (Uniondale) and Rotterdam (Swellendam).
Elim Mill, control of the water-supply
Drawing of the control of the water-supply at Elim mill, depicting detail of an overflow penstock, a mill-pond, an overflow, a pivoted sluice, a penstock, a head-race or leat, a flood-hatch, a wooden launder, flume or lade, ...
Vitruvius's mill
Drawing of Vitruvius's mill, depicting detail of an undershot water-wheel, a pit-wheel, an axle-tree, a wallower, a rynd, a runner-stone and a bedstone.
Sections of rotary-querns
Drawings of sections of rotary querns, depicting detail of a Namaqualand rotary quern (existing of a bedstone, a runner, grain, a stone, a wooden handle and a meal), a Cedarberg rotary quern (existing of a bedstone, a ...