Dear Bryan
What you refer to is often called a Horse Gin or Horse Whim. If you enter
either term into a search engine you should find pictures (try google and
select "images") There are also many examples in published mining books.
There is a shire book on horse powered machines which has examples.
Be careful though similar machinary was used on farms to power farm
equipment. I know of one mining site where the gearing for a horse gin
exists but this is a nineteenth century cast iron structure where the horse
steped over the line shaft rather than the typical larger overhead drum type
used to coil the widing rope on a mine. Documents exist that suggest a
horse gin was used on the site for winding but the one that is there now is
much later and dates from the early days of the sites use as a small holding
after the mine closed.
Regards
David
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From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Bryan Maloney
Sent: 14 March 2006 11:00
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Subject: [MINING-HISTORY] winding engines
Hi, I know very little about the engines that they used to use to get people
up and down from the pits, in the 1600s here in the village of Awsworth of
which I am doing the history still, 34.000 words to present, including about
metal blast houses and mines and coal mines and other things of interest
here. The reason I am writing this is to ask if you have any pictures of
what an engine would look like in use, we had a system in the village where
a pony and a donkey used to get the people up and down from the pits, also
the coal I would imagine, It would help me if some one knows the answer to
my questions and have a picture of them in action.
I have written a comprehensive paper on glass making in the village, and my
next project is to write one on the blast furnaces in the village, if you
put Bennerley Viaduct on the net you will see the kind of area I live in,
and will understand the beauty of the area.
Kind regards Bryan Maloney.
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