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Publication Account
Date 2013
Event ID 967385
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/967385
Improvement-era farm steading of the 1790s. Farming ceased in 1949 so this is something of a timewarp, never having adopted tractors. Its roofs are decaying. An early threshing machine sits above an enclosed 13’ (4.3m) diameter high backshot water wheel, 8 cast iron spokes to each side, with suspension rods between, probably the second wheel to be installed here. Power take-up was by gearing at ¾ diameter to the threshing
machine directly above. Private.
M Watson, 2013
