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GRIST MILLS (page 2)

If you have any pictures of a mill that you would like to show on this page, contact me at: christison@coastalnet.com

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Here is a small mill that is belted up to a lineshaft. This mill has no identification marks on it,so the maker is unknown. This mill is owned by Tull Worthington of Greenville, NC.
This is a nice small mill sold by Sears and Roebuck. It even has the original brass tag which is hanging down from the bottom of the hopper. Owned by Leland and Mike Tucker of Winterville, NC
This mill is probably pretty rare. It is made by the Perkins Windmill Co. This company also made gas engines, and of course, windmills. This mill is owned by James F. Notnagle, of Keymar, MD.

These two mills are part of the collection of Crawford Stirling of the UK. The mill on the left is a Bamford No. 1 grinding/rolling mill built in 1915. The second mill is a 1909 Bentall rolling mill. These mills as well as more of the collection of Mr. Stirling can be seen by going to his homepage at:
http://www.crawfscollection.fsnet.co.uk/

This mill is a C. S. Bell owned by Craig Buzzell of Goleta, CA. If you have any info on this mill, please contact Craig at: CraigB2@aol.com (Before and after photos courtesy of Craig Buzzell)

Above are three images of a beautiful mill owned by John Ledbetter of Kimberly, ID. Below is John's description of the mill and an engine he got with it that is shown on his webpage at: http://www.magiclink.com/web/baty/ Thanks for sharing this, John!

"I bought this Burr mill & engine in Saskatchewan in a small town about 200
miles over the border and I can't remember the name of the place. Anyway
this must have been sold as a matched unit, because everything was painted
and striped the same, the engine had no name tag on it but had the name
TORONTO  stenciled on the water hopper. I think the engine is a 3hp made by
Nelson Bros. The Burr mill is a nice unit,  you can't see it from the
picture, but it has a leather belt that runs the shaker and leather straps
to rase the shaker up & down to control the amount of grain that it feeds
into the Burrs it also has the usual slide to control the amount of  grain
coming from the hopper."
This is a mill built by A. W. Straub called the 'Quaker City'. This has a 34" crankwheel and is the only one I have seen with this size of wheel. I will try to get some better pictures soon.
John Hammink, johnh@tiscalimail.nl of the Netherlands restored this McCormick Deering Type "D" feed grinder. John is very knowledgeable on IHC equipment and has always been willing to share this knowledge. To see more pictures of this mill, you can go to his PhotoPoint page by clicking HERE THANKS JOHN!!
The image on the left is a poster contributed by Dave Croft of the UK. "The Diamant was made in Denmark by Brodre Larsen who made the BLA engines. The mills were exported all over the world as the poster is meant to show." On the right is a Bentall mill. You can see this in more detail as well as a Hunt mill, by clicking on the image. Visit Dave's homepage at: http://www.longjohn.org.uk/
This mill is a New Holland #6 1/2, which followed us home from the Berryville show. This mill is probably a later model since it has the tin hopper and angle iron legs. We were fortunate in that the original wrench came with it!

I put together a small page related to a new grist mill that has been built at the Southampton Agriculture and Forestry Museum in Courtland, VA. Check it out by clicking on the image on the left.

 

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