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Rom | Tapas in the sun
Exploring Spain in photographs: Molino del Pozo de los Frailes

On the edge of the village of Pozo de los Frailes is this wonderful restored windmill. I was hoping for some light cloud, rather than a featureless blue sky. Unfortunately, it was not to be.

Photo GPS location: https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.785,-2.108105

Camera: NIKON Z f, Lens: NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S, f11, 1/320 sec, 100 ISO

#windmill #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #bnw #nikon #CaboDeGata #spain #españa
A traditional restored windmill in a field against a backdrop of mountains
#espana
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ThomasToSpace

Yesterday I had #windmill theory lessons about weather. The difference between weather lessons for windmills & watermills is hilarious to me. For windmills you have multiple hours of lessons, need to learn a lot about weather.

For watermills: When the water is frozen, don't run the mill since you'll remove the water below the ice from upstream and ice skaters may die.

Simple enough ⛸️

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ThomasToSpace

Completed the map for my #osm based mill database.

I can now easily browse a map of all wind- & watermills and see some basic details. I can also filter on a few things.

Added a little easter egg. If you open the map and zoom in without moving, you'll end up at the windmill where I volunteer.

Next up: Connecting sources like Wikidata, national milldatabases & heritage sets.

Getting closer to being ready to make #openstreetmap the best open mill database.

#windmill#watermill
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ThomasToSpace

A few weeks ago another miller told me about an old #windmill game he played in the browser.

It was hosted on the website of a Dutch windmill, and I could see the page of it on the web archive, but the game was obviously no longer there.

I emailed the windmill, and asked if they had something. Today I received the files, and I just got them to run. It was an old Java applet, made by a father & son.

I'll wait for the okay to publish it, but it's wonderful to see some history and bring it back.

A game with on the left a windmill, with controls above it. You can choose the sails and rotate the windmill into the wind. You can also apply or unapply the brake.
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ThomasToSpace

While visiting windmills during Open Monument Day in The Netherlands, I found a #windmill with something I hadn't seen before. An elevator for grain!

It's of course powered by the windmill, and it connects to a silo in the windmill which can hold a ton of grain.

At the top of the elevator, the miller could choose if the grain went into the silo or into the mill.

Inside a wooden hollow tube, there's a band with little buckets attached to it.
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ThomasToSpace

This weekend was Open Monument Day in The Netherlands. Yesterday I spend my day volunteering at my local #windmill and today I visited 5 windmills to check out how they work!

I found out the magic sentence that makes all the 'no access' signs disappear. It's "I'm in training to be a miller". Suddenly the mill will shut down and the miller will show you literally everything.

Post mill in Beegden, built in 1856. This is a very similar mill as the mill I'm training at, but just 155 years older. It's very surprising to see the similarities!
The oldest post mill in Limburg, built in 1783. It's in Stramproy. 216 years older than the mill I'm training at.
A round stone windmill on top of a small hill. Located in Tungelroy.
A huge round stone windmill with a platform from 1722 located in Stevensweert. It's massive size can run 3 mill stones at once.
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ThomasToSpace

The more I learn about windmills, the more I realize mills and their history were at the base for so much.

Not having to hand-mill for hours a day must've been a crazy change in life.

Not having to saw manually resulted in the Dutch ships being able to be build.

So many small points, and oh boy am I gonna write about that some day. But first, I need to learn a lot more. 😅

#windmill
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