Butte Creek Mill (part 1 of 2) - Eagle Point, OR

[SteffenReichel]

Sorry, wooden Tooth in gear were not only to prevent sparks (if a metal gear get in sparks, well, something really, really bad is going wrong there), but on overload metal tooth break and one has to change the whole gear. On gears with wooden tooth, in case of overload the tooth will break, but can be changed, without changing the whole gear wheels. Also on age, the run down tooth are better to rebuild with new ones, than buying and changing a metal gear wheel itself.

[SupportWeThePeopleKB]

Excellent tour! Read Eric Sloane's "Diary of an Early American Boy", Dover Press, for an engrossing extension of this wonderful video. The real 1805 New England diary is richly annotated by artist and tool historian Sloane. The reader will see how medieval tools were adapted during the 18th and 19th centuries in the new republic.

[AlexAceDDR]

I used to swim in the dam area, they remodled it, and blocked it off. It's still cool to look at. It's walking distance from my house.