The early mills had paddle wheels,
Very simple no whistles and bells
The paddle wheel was attached to a shaft not too long
Then attached to the center of the big millstone
The turning force produced by the water on the paddles
was transferred to the runner stone, making a noise that rattled
causing it to grind against a stone where
It became a simple process requiring no gears
The grist mill ground the grain into flour
water wheels are where it got its power
The Grisrmills have been around for centuries,
Dating back some say, as early as 19 BC.
At the heart of the gristmill is the grinding stone
There are two stones upper and one that stands alone
Each stone was 18 to 24 inches thick
It could weigh as much as half a ton of bricks
Millstones were made of sandstone and granite
quarried so each stone is a single piece that fit
The bottom stone is ironically called the stone bed
The runner stone had a hole in the center where grain was fed
There was a vertical spindle that passed through the rest
by lowering or raising the beam you could adjust the grain best
By feeling the texture of the meal between his thumb and fingers,
Created the cliche, a “rule of thumb”, for the millers
the miller could determine how much to adjust the stones.
He had to watch the flour to be sure that it did not get hot and burn
It could catch fire from the friction of the grinding stones.
His sense of smell was important that was well known
he had to keep his “nose to the grindstone
Another saying that’s well known
The flour moved outward from the center down a chute it went
to a bin on the floor below where a barrel or sack was sent
The grain from the Gristmill was important to a family back in the day
Nothing compares in our times like it did the Grist mill way
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