This photo is of a large wooden gear inside the windmill at Steinbach and it's wooden cogs meshing with a metal gear that is attached to a shaft for the grinding of grain.
This photo is of a large wooden gear inside the windmill at the Mennonite Village Museum in Steinbach. The was destroyed due to arson on October 22, 2000.
This photo is of a large wooden gear and its wooden cogs meshing with a metal gear that is attached to a shaft to grind wheat. The large gear is called the ‘spurwheel’, and the smaller one is the ‘gaunt shaft gear’. These gears transfer the power from the 'counter shaft’ to the ‘gaunt shaft’, which then turns the milling stone.
This photo is of a sack being filled with flour. After the wheat has been ground into flour, the flour travels down a chute and fills a sack with flour. An empty bag sits attached to the chute. Full bags are seen on the left.
This photo is of two gears inside the windmill at the Mennonite Heriteg Village Museum in Steinbach. A wheel with wooden cogs fits inside another gear with metal slots in which the cogs fit.
This photo is of one of the two shafts attached to a stone grinding stone in the windmill. The visible stone is called the ‘bedstone’. It is the lower of two stones that do the grinding. The top stone is called the ‘runner stone’. In this picture, you see the ‘bedstone’ only for the purpose of explaining the grinding process to visitors and school tours.
This photo is of the man operating the windmill at the Mennonite Village Museum in Steinbach. He is wearing a dark blue hat and jacket and is standing inside the mill next to the "up" sign.
This photo is of the red hub where the sails attach themselves to the smock style windmill at the Mennonite Heritage Village Museum in Steinbach on a sunny day.
This photo is of the smock style windmill at the Mennonite Heritage Village Museum in Steinbach on a cloudy day. Visable is the tail and sails. The sign K.R. Barkman is on the side.