New Hall Mill - Wooden Gear Teeth. Gear Wheel with Wooden Teeth Picture of 'stone-nut' Many visitors to the Mill are surprised to learn that some of the gears transferring the power from the waterwheel to the millstones are fitted with wooden teeth Millers found that using wooden and metal toothed gears together produced less noise when the mill operated and reduced the wear on the metal ...
New Hall Mill - Wooden Gear Teeth. Gear Wheel with Wooden Teeth Picture of 'stone-nut' Many visitors to the Mill are surprised to learn that some of the gears transferring the power from the waterwheel to the millstones are fitted with wooden teeth Millers found that using wooden and metal toothed gears together produced less noise when the mill operated and reduced the wear on the metal ...