Bearing in mind that the winder on the incline would have been fairly low
speed, I suppose they could have taken a rotating drive off a reciprocating
rod using a ratchet arrangement, with the driven cog-wheel free-wheeling on
one direction of the stroke (i.e. a toothed plate on the rod, on which a cog
ran). Otherwise, the rods could have worked a crank to produce the
rotation.
There is an iron pump-rod at the Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum in Earby. It
came from Cononley Mine, where a steam engine drove rods which ran on the
surface to a shaft about 500 metres away.
Regards,
Mike Gill
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