Dutch watermills: Oostendorper watermill revisited: a look inside (repost from 9 months ago)

Here's another set of photos of the Oostendorper watermolen near Haaksbergen, The Netherlands I posted about earlier, this one:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 55mm, ISO400, f8, 1/80s, one television aerial edited out}

It is a double mill; an oil mill with one water wheel and a grain mill with two. It was built in 1633 on the spot of an older mill from 1548, which was destroyed in 1584 during the war for independence against the Spanish.

I went back to try and get some shots of the inner workings of this water mill, but I only managed one as there were too many people inside. First, a shot from a different angle:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 47mm, ISO400, f8, 1/160s}

Only one of the water wheels was turning, powering the oil mill:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 28mm, ISO400, f8, 1/10s}

The shaft of the water mill goes into one end of a reduction gearbox, you can see the gearbox' outgoing shafts entering the photo below on the right:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 28mm, ISO400, f8, 2.5s}

The shaft in the back drives a vertical cog wheel, which drives a horizontal cogwheel with two vertical, small milling stones attached to it. These milling stones roll over a vertical larger milling stone you see at the bottom. The linseed or rapeseed is crushed between them into a oily pulp, which is then processed in the next stage.

The pulp is put into a hollowed wooden block with a wedge on top and a small hole in the bottom. A vertical battering ram is used to squeeze the oil out. Here's a picture of the battering rams:

^{Photo by Rasbak, from WikiMedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 3.0 licence}

The bits sticking out of the axle lift and then drop the battering rams on top of the wedge, squeezing the oil out.

Thanks for watching!