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Compagnes Drift Mill No 111. Upstairs floor, Chute and Milling for Open Days
Sunday, 24 January 2010 08:09 | Written by Andy Selfe |
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 Work started at home during the week with the chute, making a wooden lining around the outside of the galvanised sheet trough which was cut and folded last week.I cheated by using treated ‘modern’ pine for the base, needing to...
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Servaas Daniel De Kock
On Monday 11th, I was able to slip away from work to show Compagnes Drift Mill to a group of people from Franschhoek. Before the week was out, they had arranged a visit to another Mill in their...
The steel service workshops are only opening on Monday, so although the linings of the chutes worked out last week are ordered, They will only be delivered in the course of this week. That meant...
Having cut some sheaves of wheat growing wild in the field below the Mill house just before the Open Gardens weekends, we have been talking about the possibility of growing a patch of wheat, cutting...