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Historic Windmill Tour

Bob tours the "Old East Mill" at the Heritage Plantation in Sandwich, MA. Moved from it's original location in Orleans, MA, and restored, the post-and-beam windmill is an excellent example of historic machinery. In it's day, the mill produced rye, corn salt, and barley. Now it serves as an educational tool for school children and visitors to the plantation.
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Historic Windmill Tour

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" The old east no built in 1800 in the town of Orleans on Cape Cod. In 1969. In the -- was disassembled and moved to its present location in sandwich and the grounds of the heritage plantation it took ten days to move it here. Now one of the interesting things is that a storm in recent years blew off the blade to most important part of the milk but let's take a closer look and meet Judy Selleck was director of public relations here at the plantation. Hi Judy. But you know we're all fans of historic preservation and -- great old houses but a window."

" Let you know there is -- no preservation from sagging and if there's not a dwelling of course it was a piece of machinery going to thousands of them at one time in the country. Back here at heritage plantation we -- minister visited the -- field."

" Now tell us more about the machinery aspects of it I didn't realize that would be such a big old. Law and attached to a windmill on the backside of it what does this do."

" Well this is used for because he had a -- at one point it was attached to the anger that and a team of mules -- come and direct the whole top but it into the wind to you'd move the whole windmill operation."

" To catch the wind right I'd never thought about that. Little bit like sailing in a date payment to expand well the machinery is intact inside this structure right that's right and we ticked closer -- it can't."

" look at the structure here now it's very low but this is kind of the birth of post and being -- mortise and Tenon and everything else we have one now but. These would be the original members of the whole structure all right. -- But beautiful piece of work. -- now of course a windmill by definition would have been built on a wind you location but so they have to worry about the thing holding up and having structural integrity and here you can see that. Each one of these octagonal both sides this is held together with one very thick member and then. They're all cross braced -- to win Brister whatever you want to call it so these -- really tie the whole structure together and that's now what kind of material would have been. Milling here back in the early 1800 -- it would have been."

" Lag crying out he solved. I -- yeah. Now I didn't know that it did it produce less on the part of the country that they gave ying and then sank like cotton had ever see the chance salt works."

" So when you did have the blade is attached to the outside of the mill right explain to us how the whole thing worked okay."

" Yeah and we and drilled a shaft. Which can train train the key areas Brittany and milestones. Crank that corner of the valium salt -- so that your you're pretty basic operation -- had stones grinding stones battery crushed everything right. Now can still be used as an educational tool we collect at heritage compulsion -- hike the Angel next at -- and electricity and because at least easy to -- educational tool for -- schoolchildren came to a school trips. When the out lately taking down I've installed on. Of course we last ability do that and enough to -- that --"

" Actually building facility -- Judy good luck with the restoration work and thanks for letting us take a look just match."

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