bugbear
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A guy at the car boot today was selling a load of stuff "from the old country". I think he had the entire contents of some rural peasant barn, somewhere in Eastern Europe. There were cleft wood hay forks, ox yokes (both single and double) wooden shafted ploughs, various fibre prepping heckles, but most interesting (to me) was a spinning "wheel". It was quite crudly made, but instead of the usual "big wheel drives small wheel", it had a double gear-up, so the wheels could be much smaller and simpler to make (and were in fact simply solid wood). The spinning system itself wasn't a "flyer", but just a spindle, like a Great Wheel.
Some googling shows it to be similar to an Indian Charkha wheel.
I've (blatently
) edited in the second drive belt, which was missing.
BugBear
Some googling shows it to be similar to an Indian Charkha wheel.
I've (blatently
) edited in the second drive belt, which was missing.
BugBear
