Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

VI Great Plains - VI-9 Windmill from Dusnok

VI-9 • The capacity of the windmill Depending on the direction and strength of the wind the mill could grind 12-18 metric centners of grain per day. The sails turned 10-13 times in a minute and the grinding stone turned 8.8 times with each rotation of the sail. ed into a house. The miller's quarters and the flour-collector can be found on the ground floor of the four-storied building. This is also where the millstones can be adjusted to change the quality of the flour being produced. The grain to be ground is pulled up on the first floor where the two pairs of millstones are located. There is a stone-lifting mechanism. The third floor houses the transmission mechanism with the spur wheel and the spindle. The next floor is the one with the tilted wind-shaft and the wheel with the inscription mentioned earlier Here the wallower and the brake mechanism are fixed to the upright shaft. The rotating roof can be turned in the direction of wind with the help of a wing conoven fed from the narrow kitchen with a vaulted chimney whose smoke escaped through a funnel built in the wall. Kitchenware was kept on a shelf. In front of the oven a poker and an oven-peel suggests that the housewife is preparing to heat the oven ready for baking. sisting of three beams and wheel. The sails are strutted with radial iron rods fixed to each other The millers room-kitchen flat is as it was in the 1940s when the populous family of János Koprivánacz inhabited the place. Due to the high number of family members, some of them slept in the outbuliding of the mill. The room was heated by an 81