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Mill Stone Display at Wolf Creek Mill

Wolf Creek Grist Mill runs Two Sets of 42" French Burr Stones

Here you can see the wooden cap on the set of stones and the four-sided hopper. Below the hopper are the damsel and shoe.

The shoe funnels the grain into the eye of the stone. The damsel shakes the shoe to keep the grain from clogging.

This is an amazing display of two mill stone that are being prepared to be dressed and sharpened. The bed stone is the one that is laying horizontally. The stone that is set vertically is being held by a hook and crane. The vertical stone is the runner stone and is ready to be set with the cut side open so it can be dressed. The round, wooden cap on the wall is typically set on top of the stones when they are ready to be grind. This is a spectacular display for everyone to see just how that hook holds the stones to prepare them. Each stone can be over 1,000 pounds. The hook and crane are always in the immediate vicinity of grinding mill stones. This display was rescued from Rummel Mill before it was collapsed. An historical display.

This screw for the hook and crane is metal. Originally the screw was made of wood.

This wooden screw was very likely built in 1791.

The above historic piece is from the Judah Baker Windmill, Barnstable County, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Set of 42" French Burr Mill Stones at Wolf Creek Grist Mill

Shoe at the eye of the millstones.

Shoe at the eye of the millstone.

Built in the late 1800's, this is called an attrition mill. It is a vertical mill and it uses steel plates to grind feed.

Wolf Creek Mill owner, Mark Smith, rescued this artifact from the now disintegrated Rummel Mill.

Close Up of the Vertical Grinding Mill Stones

The outside portion of this millstone is banded with metal securing the inside stones.

The inside pieces of stones were cone shaped. They were placed inside this multi-pieced, configured millstone for grinding.

This millstone was rescued by the owner of Wolf Creek Mill, Mark Smith, from Phoenix Mill in Huron County, Ohio.