Cog Wheel

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The rusty cog half buried in the ground is in fact a piece of line shafting. line shafting was a system of connecting all machines back to the engines which drove the mill. It was a serious of pulleys, shafts, ropes and belts connected to every single machine, which run back to the to the engine. the mill had 2 engines. 1 was 300 horsepower and the other was 400 horsepower. and if you walk back towards the Spinning Mill you can see a large arched opening in the side of the building, that's where the flywheel of one of the engines actually sat, and above the arched opening you can see some square metal casting's and that's where the line shafts driven by the engine would enter the building.

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