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Interior of Steinbach windmill

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.

Peters, Jake (Jacob Ernie), 1955-

Interior of Steinbach windmill

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.

Peters, Jake (Jacob Ernie), 1955-

Interior of Steinbach windmill

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.

Peters, Jake (Jacob Ernie), 1955-