Maintenance 2012

A few things didn’t get done in 2011:

1. Replace rotten window frame on West side.
2. Tar the outhouse.
3. Refurbish outhouse roof

2012 scheduled work

1. Remove, repaint and replace the other pair of sails.

Work planned for this year is shown below.  Each year there is basic maintenance to be done.  This includes inspection, cleaning and painting which takes place on a 5 year cycle:

1. Cap and Fantail
2. Smock
3. Tower
4. 1st pair of sails (sails lowered for painting on the ground)
5. 2nd pair of sails

Now that the outside is completed, restoration will concentrate on the inside, with the aim of grinding corn again.  All the machinery is available, but all the woodwork needs to be replaced, and the metalwork needs major refurbishment.

Restoration 2012

1. Replace push rods on striking mechanism for both pair of sails (the current ones are too weak).
2. Continue resetting main beams in tower
3. Continue stripping and whitewashing inside.
4. Fit shaft cladding to upright shaft.
5. Re-cog lay shaft and restore sack hoist to working order.

If you would like to work on the mill, please