old mill wheel

A real one have no idea what to do with it

its 4 foot 7 ins wide 14 feet diameter

you can see through the paddles as the inner timbers have gone,its an overshot wheel the water that fed it had been diverted a long time ago and the pond above filled in

 

No ideas either, but .... just ...

 

Oooohhhh lucky

I would just clean it up and make it a feature lots of mills dont have their wheels anymore so its def one to keep

I know my parents are a bit gutted that there mill doesnt have a wheel anymore

 

Remove it, lay it on its side and block up the slats and what do you have?

A GURT BIG RAISED BED!

Cheers, Tony.

 

I'd paint it black and then plant some climbers to meander through it.

 

Do it up and make it a feature and i wish i had it

 

I kind of think it needs to remain where it is.
It even looks reasonably good now, with just a bit of attention it could look really good.

 

its staying where it is will be enough grief you'll see,the steal which is very good probably due to the tar like paint well what i can see of it,had thought of planting the paddles to look like water
flowing "be beyond me not that good with plants normally survival of the fittest"
or how about rigging some water works thinking, open crank stationery engine to pump water
over the wheel to make it turn,big water feature folly
maybe just clear it out




yep been avoiding this for years

 

Me personally I would do it up and have the disused water channel turned into a pond. I presume it must still be water tight more or less. Fill it with nice tall pond plants and have the water wheel sat in it.

 

It would be a challenge to do it up. Like JJ says, a pond would be good where the water channel is. It's too good a feature to leave or rip out.

 

thanks for the reply's digging at the mo its messy i'll post some pics later

 

could you not do it up and get a high powered pump to push water back through the channel and have it on a loop so all it is doing is push the wheel round for show? Would be a big project but would be a great end goal to see it working as it should

|Jamie

 

bigbore that's a good target as it seems to hold water in the bottom
sorry if your eating


bit to much water to be just coming out of the mud, pump a bit dig a bit don't think its the bottom yet

 

Would be nice this is what i've got to work with all thats left of the water works feeding the wheel
there is a tree growing, blocking it


carries on to the timber overshot


i would be standing in the mill pond but tiz grass also showing tree cover over water channel