Pictures of old grist mill

[RedGinger]

ORIGINAL: lobeycat

Well I know what you're thinkin. He just loves me for my grist mill.

LOL!

 

[RedGinger]

That wagon side is cool!! What else is in and around there???

 

[pyshodoodle]

Corn cracker (red thing) with big magnets to catch any metal (not quite sure where the metal is supposed to come from)

 

[RedGinger]

Sorry Lobes, but Kate and I have our own thing []

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: pyshodoodle

This screw is on a movable arm that goes over the stones for dressing. (Not quite sure what's involved in dressing the stones, though. Anybody?)

I think that dressing the stones restored the tolerance between the grinding surfaces of the stones...someone please correct me if I'm wrong...[] J.B.

 

[pyshodoodle]

ORIGINAL: RedGinger

That wagon side is cool!!  What else is in and around there???

Mostly just all the equipment, which is rather rare. There are rusty license plates on the floor that where used to patch holes, but most are covered up or behind stuff that's being stored in there.

Ok - I gotta take a break... hope some find this interesting. Here's a picture of where the privy used to be. Good thing my parents have me convinced there's nothing in it. My mom planted holly bushes on top of it![8|]

 

[pyshodoodle]

Joe - that sounds right to me. ADD sometimes makes thoughts in my head hard to get out in words. Or maybe I'm just too rightbrained.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Good thing my parents have me convinced there's nothing in it. My mom planted holly bushes on top of it!

OMG!....I'll go buy some new holly bushes!!! <laughing> How my curiosity would compel me to put a strain upon family relations and DIG![] I'll suggest to Laur that we make the trip to the mill to celebrate her van getting on the road,...("yeah, that's not a probe...yeah, it's a prop rod for holding the hood open,...yeah,yeah,...that's the ticket")[] Just kidding Kate, but you have alot more diplomacy and restraint than I would. Joe

 

[pyshodoodle]

It's very close to the water source.
An interesting thing about this mill is, that, even though the headrace doesn't run anymore, natural springs come up under the wheel and thoughout the tailrace.
My dad said the outhouse had one of those troughs that slid out the back. Can't think of what they're called, though.

(Although the one across the millrace is only in grass and that was the workers outhouse. I still think about trying that one even though he says the same thing about IT. That one first.[])

 

[pyshodoodle]

ORIGINAL: Antiquenut

I love the stonework! That is a beautiful home! I can just smell the grain now! I went to a working Grist Mill in Kings Landing,New Brunswick,Canada.The whole village is set back in time,clothes,food,music,everything.I liked the creaky old water wheel and the grinding of the stones as they milled the grain.I grew up on an old farm with a huge post and beam barn.It was nice but not as cool as your mill or house.Beautiful.Thanks for posting. -Tim

I can't smell the grain, but I can smell old mill smell... I was at a flea market recently where they had small mill chutes and I had to smell them.[8|] Smells good to me, but weird.
Here's a picture of the buckets the grain was carried in. Most of the belts are still intact (and weren't ever emptied). Mice must've had a field day when it first shut down.
The barn that went with the mill was torn down in the early 70s (didn't belong to us). There is also a wagon barn next door that our neighbors own. There was a wagon for the mill that I saw when I was 9 or 10. A guy named Horace Kirby owned it and we went to see it. It was technically new, because shortly after they bought the new wagon, they got a truck, so it just sat for years. Horace had an entire old general store set up in his barn with everything in it... most of the stuff was still in boxes on the shelves. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I think a museum bought it, but I don't know which one.