you all probably dont care at all but does someone know of a way to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly lost my login password. I love any help you can offer me
@Louis Jaxtyn thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff now. I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Kirsten and Maarten, Thank you for such a lovely memory, as we stayed at this mill Dec 2016. Maarten was not able to run the mill then, as he was still in training and not certified to do so. It was like being in a movie from the past, idyllic and serene. My husband is from the Netherlands (we live in the US), and it is nearly impossible to visit everyone while on vacation, so we invited everyone to the windmill. Most of the Dutch visiting that night had never been in a mill before. Maarten has done a wonderful job with the remodel, and everyone was impressed. Abcoude is a lovely town as well, with nice restaurants, a bakery with homemade croissants, a fish truck on Saturdays and a decent grocery store. Driving to the mill from town is not for the fainthearted (unless you are Dutch!), as there are canals on both sides of a narrow way with traffic from both directions. Staying there ranks with my top vacation experiences ever.
This reminds me of my old friend whose father worked at the Library of Congress maintaining the book conveyors. He was the one with the knowledge to make replacement parts, how to temper the brass for each application to have the right level of springiness but not be brittle. There was so much technology in old machinery, arts that are now mostly lost.
Heel erg bedankt Maarten van Dijk voor het verhaal, je hebt het op een kwaliteitsvolle manier uitgelegd en ik begreep alles, hoewel ik geen Nederlands of zelfs Engels ken. Veel geluk in het leven!
I was always under the impression that these machines all ground grains, (yawn...), but I was amazed to learn that many, if not most, pump water, as this one does, and some even power sawmills! Just absolutely marvelous machines!!!
As a Dutchie living in the north of Sweden, this makes me a little homesick ;) I lived a short bike ride away from the windmills of Kinderdijk :) Really nice video!
Intriguing, fascinating & wonderful ....I am in love with windmills & , as an artist, I love to paint them. The people who invented them & make them are extremely ingenious. All credit to Mr. Van Dijk for doing such a wonderful job. Here in UK we have had a few people like him to do the same thing, but not enough ! I do hope his daughter can carry on when he leaves off ! Thank you very much for a wonderful video.
PASSION AND INTELLIGENCE ... why change if you've got something that works ... beautiful project, and it has to do with water ... let's go back 500 years and restore what kept Holland from having wet feet ... I'm impressed, really, such a wonderful project indeed ... and by the way, IT WAS BELISA BARCA WHO HAD THE IDEA OF COMBINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF SAILING BOATS AND WHEELS, she traveled from Brugge to Italy on a boat, and played with materials, didn't have to 'behave' like a princess and her four guardian angels saw the beauty of her being, tried to keep the genuine girl with the visions in her head ... the storm will pass and we will chose again for safe and sound ... PASSION lies on the start of a new area, not the fact that we can fail and do not always have the patience to finish the work ...
Absolutely loved this! Even though I lived in Amsterdam for a bit and knew that The Netherlands had pumped water out of the lands to make it liveable. I never knew how they did it. So fascinating! Great to see the passion of Maarten for keeping this machinery alive. Incredible the amount of water it can pump up. Wonder if the water pressure could then be used to make electicity as well? And all completely silent and with no pollution what so ever.
Sat watching this video in his beautiful windmill. Rented it out for 4 nights, its such an amazing place to stay and Maartin is a great host. If you're ever in Abcoude look it up and stay a few nights.
this is my new favorite youtube channel. i've binge watched way too many to be a normal person anymore. thanks for such a broad spectrum of offerings. i love something about every episode; this one is wonderful in so many ways.
Lucas' rants and reviews i think destroying old windmills is prohibited here in the Netherlands. There are two in my village, one is still active and you can buy different types of flour there, and the other one got renovated not that long ago because it burnt down!
Love this! Reminds me of the week I rented and rode a bike around the Netherlands two years ago. Visiting the windmills and older agricultural ways (rainwater cisterns collecting water from most home roofs) was always fascinating.
Little known fact, the reason that Holland could produce/replace fleets to fight against the English (17th century) is that the converted mills to become sawmills. Thus producing the building materials to build ships much more fast than the English could do. :)
Thanks for sharing, very nice (karakter you find too) to see and learn how the windmill works! (very well!). I'm dutch, but even here in the Netherlands it's not a common thing to learn about. Good to share !!
Veel molens in NL hebben dagen dat ze gewoon los zijn om te bezichtigen en om een uitleg te krijgen, hier in het oosten in ieder geval wel... En dan heb je natuurlijk monumenten dag/weekend waarop ook veel molens open zijn. Maar ja... meeste mensen die zo'n molen bezoeken zijn vaak wel op leeftijd :)
I used to have a friend who lived in a windmill. His father was the miller and would do repairs on other mills in the Netherlands. Always fun to explore it.
So very interesting, Kirsten! My great great grandmother was born in the Trouwe Wachter molen in Tienhoven, Utrect. We have visited there and toured the mill.
Its a fantastic film. This guy is a total legend. Totally immersed in the miller life. I loved this film. My favourite build is the shipping container in the woods. Not the minimalist feel but the idea. But this film is inspired. I know im gushing but well, this guy is amazing Much love from Yorkshire
These machines epotimize the how time and necessity moves the design process builds a better function. So, I see these mills as the perfect blending of Form and Function; these machines are functionally beautiful... and shelter, too!
This is the beautiful windmill that I have adored since I was a teenager. I think I saw the picture of this very Dutch windmill long time ago on a desk calendar of 1980s or 1990s.
I am Amazed at these things, I had no idea that People lived inside them or the ability of these Beautiful windmills. Thank You for making this video and showing us the inside of them, Wonderful!
What an amazing history! How is the place heated? I heard Maarten say it was damp and cold, but certainly there are innovative methods to heat the space? The thatch alone is worth a full length movie; not something we see here in the USA. Thanks for posting this story!
Thank you for showing the running gear, Many vid's on these windmills but your the firsted that showed me the running gear. I now know how they work, what a energy efficient system, water is heavy and hard to move. This water scoop(flap) is a much better design then the bucket scoop or the chain scoop drive and so much more energy efficient, simpler, quiet(less friction on the parts) less part's and ezer to maintain. They just can't move the water very high,but they can move a lot of water very fast ..50 000 liters(50tone) per minute that 833 liters (.8 of a tone) a second.
FANTASTIK VID! I'm seeing humongous amounts of torque producing huge quantities of work. It has caused me to question why we think we need those tall spindly contraptions with long skinny blades for generating electricity. Perhaps this tried and true approach from olden times deserves a second look with updated materials and drive-train components.
Feel at home. Just like the room/hotel that we ordinary, common, just like normally welive in. I thought that it was just only the physically windmill building but it is also a home inside
Kirsten you find the greatest stories ! Your work is like that of National Geographic stories. Have you thought of selling your stories to N.G. ?..they may even hire you to do work for them. But if you do, I hope that you continue doing them here. Much peace to you. :-) ☮ ☕ 📷 ☺ ✌
The Dutch are the best English speakers in Europe. .....why I do not know. Impressive how well they speak a different language than their own. Most of the others in Europe can't speak English at all. ...or very poorly.
One thing that helps dutch learn (american) english apart from school is television with subtitles. Most other countries have dubs, which is a missed opportunity and a waste of good voice acting.
There were hundreds of windmills in that area over a century ago, which represents an awful lot of big timber beams. Would be interesting to know how they transported those logs and sawed them up back in the day.
At first the wood for the beams was cut by hand. Two people would be going back and forth with a massive saw to cut the large trees into the right sizes. It took them over 2 full weeks to cut a single tree to size with 12 to 16 hours working days. However in 1592 the ingenious Cornelis Corneliszoon (Cornelis, son of Cornelis, which was a traditional way of naming people back then) invented the crank shaft. It led to windmills being able to become saw mills. That led to a revolution as now the same massive trees could be cut into beams and planks in less then 20% of the time it previously took. This was met with major resistance by the people sawing back then, but the revolution was upon the Netherlands and led to the Golden Age (1600 - 1700). A truly spectacular age of massive increase of wealth and The Netherlands becoming a true powerhouse trade nation (one of the best in the world, and it still is today) and home for many revolutionary inventions (to name a few: submarine, telescope, microscope, wifi, bluetooth and many more). Only recently the Golden Age has been surpassed by the current Golden Era of the modern society. While the increase in wealth back then was spectacular (a 250% increase in commerce and trade) nowadays with our current Golden Era almost everyone in society benefits from a spectacular growth in luxury, availability of goods and general well-being.
+sietuuba : Yes, of course! Actually I had forgotten that I watched one about a year ago. But . . . what about transport (canal boats, *Dutch Barges*, you'll say), and where were the trees grown? Not around here, they must have travelled from miles away.
+DePvdM : A very interesting discussion. Fascinating history that you've summarised. Thank you for that. But of course as an Australian, I'll have to point out that John O'Sullivan has been credited with leading a CSIRO team of fellow scientists in the invention of WiFi. There's an extensive article in Wikipedia about his awards in relation to this, the CSIRO WiFi patent, and ongoing court cases related to the defence of the patent.
You are right, i am mistaken with wifi. CD and DVD are (partly) Dutch inventions. The wood was generally taken from nearby forests, and transported in rafts. Due to the Netherlands being a low level country, several big rivers like Rijn, Waal en Moesel gave the option to get wood from large forests on German soil. That made construction and distribution a lot more competitively priced and thus increasing revenue. Together with the formation of the VOC (which also captured the current Indonesia) and 400 year long relations with Japan (the Netherlands was for a period of 350 years the only foreign country trading with Japan), huge expansions and exploring started around 1600 and many places became settled by Dutch. New York was originally Dutch settlement, as well as many Australian settlements which have Dutch origins, albeit quite a few settlers arrived during or after the second world war. Current Suriname became Dutch, and many other places had trading posts. Everything got traded: spices, bulbs (currently still the largest flower auction site worldwide distributing 60% of the world flower trade: FloraHolland), slaves, food, building materials, gold, silver and the like. Many a war has been fought over those very lucrative trade routes. Many thousands of souls have been lost fighting over them.
I can't help but imagine attaching some form of generator to one of the drive wheels converting some of that immense torque into electrical energy. You could possibly supply electric power to a good portion of your community with some conversions to just one windmill. What a beautiful power plant that would be!! 😊 Tapping into the grid and sharing the power with the usual providers would steeply decrease operation costs... I've often wondered if anyone has done that yet with the old style mills... Beautiful video. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
There were some serious attempts to try this in the 1950's but the generators of those days put too much of a strain on the old windmills. With modern technology this is less of a problem but it is just not economically viable. Remember a miller has to be present at all times to operate the mill, as wind direction and speed can change any time. Current thought is that it is better to keep the old windmills as authentic as possible and leave the electricy generating business to modern wind turbines which are automated and far more efficient.
having lived in this city the funny thing is i never apreaciate our windmills much but after having traveld abroad im really startingbto admire windmills im guessing in zaandam
I have traveled to this place earlier this year, I believe it's called Kinderdijk? Somewhere near Utrecht. It's amazing, all these giant ancient windmills preserved intact. We didn't get the opportunity to look inside of these windmills because it was too late, so this video really comes as a gift. Thanks!
How do you stop people from walking into the mill blades? In Afrikaans we have a saying when someone is (mentally) 'slow' "hy het 'n klap van die windmeul weg..." This comes from the old Dutch that was (and still is) spoken in South Africa. I only understood the meaning after I have visited Holland the first time and seeing how these windmills work and the fact that the blades run past the front door close to the ground. Easy to walk into if you are not careful. Good to see these mills still being serviced, renovated and used. Oh, I forgot, fot those who don't understand the saying in Afrikaans, it basically translates to 'he has been hit by the mill'. 😊
There can’t be any birds left in the whole country what with all the windmills! Now a question, how much power (watts/joules) would this mill produce? I think the manufacturers of modern mills could learn a lot of valuable lessons from these amazingly engineered and long lasting wonders!
I know a thing or two about windmills. But this man is remarkable knowledgeable. Learned new stuff about my country.
Anyone with enough time and money can restore an old building, but making a system to keep the actual trade knowledge alive is real genius. Kudos!
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@Alan Raphael Instablaster ;)
@Louis Jaxtyn thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff now.
I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Louis Jaxtyn It did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thank you so much you saved my account !
@Alan Raphael Glad I could help :)
I'm an American and this was fascinating. I never knew any of this about Dutch windmills. Thank you.
The silence of the mill even came through in the video, so glad they are preserving the mills.
This is AWESOME! I've always wanted to live in a lighthouse, but, now I'm really interested in these beautiful Dutch windmills.
Dutch are great builders, look at the craftsmanship of this windmill, thanks for sharing.
They were built by aliens then handed over to the poor millers
I didn't realize that windmills were so labor intensive. They look so romantic yet require constant attention.
Kirsten and Maarten, Thank you for such a lovely memory, as we stayed at this mill Dec 2016. Maarten was not able to run the mill then, as he was still in training and not certified to do so. It was like being in a movie from the past, idyllic and serene. My husband is from the Netherlands (we live in the US), and it is nearly impossible to visit everyone while on vacation, so we invited everyone to the windmill. Most of the Dutch visiting that night had never been in a mill before. Maarten has done a wonderful job with the remodel, and everyone was impressed. Abcoude is a lovely town as well, with nice restaurants, a bakery with homemade croissants, a fish truck on Saturdays and a decent grocery store. Driving to the mill from town is not for the fainthearted (unless you are Dutch!), as there are canals on both sides of a narrow way with traffic from both directions. Staying there ranks with my top vacation experiences ever.
Typo--We visited the mill back in Dec 2014...
Thanks for leaving this beautiful first-hand account!
This reminds me of my old friend whose father worked at the Library of Congress maintaining the book conveyors. He was the one with the knowledge to make replacement parts, how to temper the brass for each application to have the right level of springiness but not be brittle. There was so much technology in old machinery, arts that are now mostly lost.
I've always been fascinated with windmills. I enjoyed this video tremendously, long live the windmills
It's actually a little overwhelming for someone like me to imagine building or maintaining such a thing. Very impressive.
Heel erg bedankt Maarten van Dijk voor het verhaal, je hebt het op een kwaliteitsvolle manier uitgelegd en ik begreep alles, hoewel ik geen Nederlands of zelfs Engels ken. Veel geluk in het leven!
For me this is one of your "crown jewel" videos!! Stunning video! I never even could have imagined this stuff existed without your videos. Thank you.
It never occurred to me that people would be able to clear land like this prior to industrialization and steam/gas/electric power. This is amazing.
Wow Kirsten!!! I wish I could "thumbs up" this vid 100 times!! Just fantastic! Thank you so much!!
I was always under the impression that these machines all ground grains, (yawn...), but I was amazed to learn that many, if not most, pump water, as this one does, and some even power sawmills! Just absolutely marvelous machines!!!
this is the sort of random aesthetic content i need
I had no idea windmills had so much in common with sail ships. Thank you for the video!
That's what I thought, a Landship!
As a Dutchie living in the north of Sweden, this makes me a little homesick ;) I lived a short bike ride away from the windmills of Kinderdijk :) Really nice video!
Intriguing, fascinating & wonderful ....I am in love with windmills & , as an artist, I love to paint them. The people who invented them & make them are extremely ingenious. All credit to Mr. Van Dijk for doing such a wonderful job. Here in UK we have had a few people like him to do the same thing, but not enough ! I do hope his daughter can carry on when he leaves off ! Thank you very much for a wonderful video.
That was about the coolest thing I've seen all week.
can generate electricity as well ..
My best compliments for you and the old era of dutch people who developed the windmills!
Beautifully explained. Fascinating.
Great Job Kirsten. This is so interesting and one of a kind. We are so lucky so see this. Thanks!
Maarten what a wonderful combination of knowledge, interest and pure love for this machine!
PASSION AND INTELLIGENCE ... why change if you've got something that works ... beautiful project, and it has to do with water ... let's go back 500 years and restore what kept Holland from having wet feet ... I'm impressed, really, such a wonderful project indeed ... and by the way, IT WAS BELISA BARCA WHO HAD THE IDEA OF COMBINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF SAILING BOATS AND WHEELS, she traveled from Brugge to Italy on a boat, and played with materials, didn't have to 'behave' like a princess and her four guardian angels saw the beauty of her being, tried to keep the genuine girl with the visions in her head ... the storm will pass and we will chose again for safe and sound ... PASSION lies on the start of a new area, not the fact that we can fail and do not always have the patience to finish the work ...
Absolutely loved this! Even though I lived in Amsterdam for a bit and knew that The Netherlands had pumped water out of the lands to make it liveable. I never knew how they did it. So fascinating! Great to see the passion of Maarten for keeping this machinery alive. Incredible the amount of water it can pump up. Wonder if the water pressure could then be used to make electicity as well? And all completely silent and with no pollution what so ever.
Sat watching this video in his beautiful windmill. Rented it out for 4 nights, its such an amazing place to stay and Maartin is a great host. If you're ever in Abcoude look it up and stay a few nights.
this is my new favorite youtube channel. i've binge watched way too many to be a normal person anymore. thanks for such a broad spectrum of offerings. i love something about every episode; this one is wonderful in so many ways.
Thank you. This is one of my favorites,, though under the radar as a video.
@@kirstendirksen Agree. On my top 5.
Fortunate to work in a windmolen in 1976. Still have my opleiden books...thanks for sharing
kevin donohue hello sir
WOW. I have a whole new respect for windmills. Bravo to Mr. van Dijk - you are a star!
This is really cool. Glad to see they are keep some of these old historical windmills around.
Lucas' rants and reviews i think destroying old windmills is prohibited here in the Netherlands. There are two in my village, one is still active and you can buy different types of flour there, and the other one got renovated not that long ago because it burnt down!
Jaap that's awesome
Love this!
Reminds me of the week I rented and rode a bike around the Netherlands two years ago.
Visiting the windmills and older agricultural ways (rainwater cisterns collecting water from most home roofs) was always fascinating.
Amazing! I'm Dutch myself but I never knew about al these buildings! Going to visit it all myself soon!! Thank you Kirsten
Little known fact, the reason that Holland could produce/replace fleets to fight against the English (17th century) is that the converted mills to become sawmills. Thus producing the building materials to build ships much more fast than the English could do. :)
Wouldn't the english have used water-powered sawmills, which are easier to use?
@@someotherdude No the British needed to ration their water to make sure their army had enough tea.
We had a fair few windmills ourselves.
@@7822welshsteamAnd a navy with a working clock.
Witnessing preservation of the Dutch built environment and historic trade in one instance makes my heart soar.
Thank you for this. It's fascinating. A marvel of engineering.
Thanks for sharing, very nice (karakter you find too) to see and learn how the windmill works! (very well!). I'm dutch, but even here in the Netherlands it's not a common thing to learn about. Good to share !!
Veel molens in NL hebben dagen dat ze gewoon los zijn om te bezichtigen en om een uitleg te krijgen, hier in het oosten in ieder geval wel... En dan heb je natuurlijk monumenten dag/weekend waarop ook veel molens open zijn. Maar ja... meeste mensen die zo'n molen bezoeken zijn vaak wel op leeftijd :)
The cost of the timber alone today mind-boggling to think they created so many windmills. Beautiful
Dutch are special hard-workers, my dad lived there from the early 70's till the late 90's, every now and then , he kept mentioning their work ethic
I used to have a friend who lived in a windmill. His father was the miller and would do repairs on other mills in the Netherlands. Always fun to explore it.
He is great at explaining about the mill. Cool windmill, cool guy.
This is the coolest show I have ever seen. I am absolutely amazed by this. I want to be a miller!
So very interesting, Kirsten! My great great grandmother was born in the Trouwe Wachter molen in Tienhoven, Utrect. We have visited there and toured the mill.
Its a paradise. Sooooo beautiful place, so beautiful inside the windmill. Its a dreamland.
Its a fantastic film. This guy is a total legend. Totally immersed in the miller life. I loved this film. My favourite build is the shipping container in the woods. Not the minimalist feel but the idea. But this film is inspired. I know im gushing but well, this guy is amazing
Much love from Yorkshire
Bedankt voor dit aandeelje.
Eén van de dingen die ik het leukst vond toen ik door Nederland fietste.
Groetjes uit Portugal 🙂
great post kirsten, as a native dutch i really enjoyed this one.
These machines epotimize the how time and necessity moves the design process builds a better function. So, I see these mills as the perfect blending of Form and Function; these machines are functionally beautiful... and shelter, too!
That is a beautiful and amazing story. Kirsten you have out done yourself magnificent job.
THANKSGIVING
Love all the various travels and dwelling you and your family explore and film.
It s a great move to renovate old buildings far more this kind of buildings. Lovely!
My name is Nathan miller, my ancestor was hans miller who was a Dutch miller.
One day I wish to build a traditional Dutch windmill.
FASCINATING! Great work KD!
Wonderful piece!! Very informative!! Thankyou for the exposure!!
This is the beautiful windmill that I have adored since I was a teenager. I think I saw the picture of this very Dutch windmill long time ago on a desk calendar of 1980s or 1990s.
I LOVE this one. I really want to live in NL. we keep visiting but it is not enough. These are my people.
I loved this video, thank you for sharing this. That mill is beautiful. I really wish I could visit some day.
Thank you so much for complete information how a windmill works and living areas .
Loved the thorough content. I visited Kinderdijk today and this was very informative. Im impressed that your keeping it in shape. Keep it up!!!
Even for me as a Dutchman, who did visit several windmills offcourse, a great video. Thanks for sharing.
I am Amazed at these things, I had no idea that People lived inside them or the ability of these Beautiful windmills.
Thank You for making this video and showing us the inside of them, Wonderful!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this with us!
Fascinating! What a great video! Thank you for reminding me that I hadn't seen this one - I do really like it too!
Will it still be like 'meditation' when he gets very old? His daughters might still be able to help.
Such beautiful landscape! ❤️
Thanks for showing this again. Possibly your best piece. Maybe submit as a documentary.
What an amazing history! How is the place heated? I heard Maarten say it was damp and cold, but certainly there are innovative methods to heat the space? The thatch alone is worth a full length movie; not something we see here in the USA. Thanks for posting this story!
Thank you for showing the running gear, Many vid's on these windmills but your the firsted that showed me the running gear. I now know how they work, what a energy efficient system, water is heavy and hard to move. This water scoop(flap) is a much better design then the bucket scoop or the chain scoop drive and so much more energy efficient, simpler, quiet(less friction on the parts) less part's and ezer to maintain. They just can't move the water very high,but they can move a lot of water very fast ..50 000 liters(50tone) per minute that 833 liters (.8 of a tone) a second.
The whiplash at 5:10 when he opens the modern-looking closet door and inside is just gigantic spinning gears
Amazing and what a lovely guy, hope his daughter takes up the trade to keep that beauty going. Over 300 uears old. Wow
incredible, thank you so much for recording and posting such interesting pieces of human ingenuity. Cheers from São Paulo, Brazil
FANTASTIK VID!
I'm seeing humongous amounts of torque producing huge quantities of work.
It has caused me to question why we think we need those tall spindly contraptions with long skinny blades for generating electricity.
Perhaps this tried and true approach from olden times deserves a second look with updated materials and drive-train components.
Feel at home. Just like the room/hotel that we ordinary, common, just like normally welive in. I thought that it was just only the physically windmill building but it is also a home inside
I love this video! Thank you
Fascinating. Learned so much. Thank you.
I adorn the beauty of the old fashioned windmills and 👍😍
Such extraordinary find and well-done video. How can it be that this does not get millions of views?
Absolutely riveting! Thank you.
Kirsten you find the greatest stories ! Your work is like that of National Geographic stories. Have you thought of selling your stories to N.G. ?..they may even hire you to do work for them. But if you do, I hope that you continue doing them here. Much peace to you. :-) ☮ ☕ 📷 ☺ ✌
I think even better than most Nat Geo work these days!
They are in many ways indeed Oliver. :-)
It's probably more down to earth and less spectacular than NG
Awesome video.....!
I Always love vintage windmills and dream to build my own windmill house....!
I would love living in a windmill like that one!
Full time fulfilling work. Intriguing.
Me encanta tu serie. Maravillosa!
The Dutch are the best English speakers in Europe. .....why I do not know. Impressive how well they speak a different language than their own. Most of the others in Europe can't speak English at all. ...or very poorly.
One thing that helps dutch learn (american) english apart from school is television with subtitles. Most other countries have dubs, which is a missed opportunity and a waste of good voice acting.
since dutch is basically a mixure of english and german they have a relatively easy time learning both languages
@@arumatai I'm slowly learning Dutch and I thought that! That explains why I'm finding it easier than other languages :) it's a lovely language
There were hundreds of windmills in that area over a century ago, which represents an awful lot of big timber beams. Would be interesting to know how they transported those logs and sawed them up back in the day.
With a wind-driven sawmill of course; there are videos on TH-cam of at least one restored Dutch sawmill.
At first the wood for the beams was cut by hand. Two people would be going back and forth with a massive saw to cut the large trees into the right sizes. It took them over 2 full weeks to cut a single tree to size with 12 to 16 hours working days. However in 1592 the ingenious Cornelis Corneliszoon (Cornelis, son of Cornelis, which was a traditional way of naming people back then) invented the crank shaft. It led to windmills being able to become saw mills. That led to a revolution as now the same massive trees could be cut into beams and planks in less then 20% of the time it previously took. This was met with major resistance by the people sawing back then, but the revolution was upon the Netherlands and led to the Golden Age (1600 - 1700). A truly spectacular age of massive increase of wealth and The Netherlands becoming a true powerhouse trade nation (one of the best in the world, and it still is today) and home for many revolutionary inventions (to name a few: submarine, telescope, microscope, wifi, bluetooth and many more).
Only recently the Golden Age has been surpassed by the current Golden Era of the modern society. While the increase in wealth back then was spectacular (a 250% increase in commerce and trade) nowadays with our current Golden Era almost everyone in society benefits from a spectacular growth in luxury, availability of goods and general well-being.
+sietuuba : Yes, of course! Actually I had forgotten that I watched one about a year ago. But . . . what about transport (canal boats, *Dutch Barges*, you'll say), and where were the trees grown? Not around here, they must have travelled from miles away.
+DePvdM : A very interesting discussion. Fascinating history that you've summarised. Thank you for that. But of course as an Australian, I'll have to point out that John O'Sullivan has been credited with leading a CSIRO team of fellow scientists in the invention of WiFi. There's an extensive article in Wikipedia about his awards in relation to this, the CSIRO WiFi patent, and ongoing court cases related to the defence of the patent.
You are right, i am mistaken with wifi. CD and DVD are (partly) Dutch inventions.
The wood was generally taken from nearby forests, and transported in rafts. Due to the Netherlands being a low level country, several big rivers like Rijn, Waal en Moesel gave the option to get wood from large forests on German soil. That made construction and distribution a lot more competitively priced and thus increasing revenue. Together with the formation of the VOC (which also captured the current Indonesia) and 400 year long relations with Japan (the Netherlands was for a period of 350 years the only foreign country trading with Japan), huge expansions and exploring started around 1600 and many places became settled by Dutch. New York was originally Dutch settlement, as well as many Australian settlements which have Dutch origins, albeit quite a few settlers arrived during or after the second world war. Current Suriname became Dutch, and many other places had trading posts. Everything got traded: spices, bulbs (currently still the largest flower auction site worldwide distributing 60% of the world flower trade: FloraHolland), slaves, food, building materials, gold, silver and the like.
Many a war has been fought over those very lucrative trade routes. Many thousands of souls have been lost fighting over them.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing
I like the Quixotic reference!
WOW THATS REALLY COOL, I DIDNT KNOW THAT RUNNING A WINDMILL ENTAILED SO MANY DETAILS
Marvelous old technology... so ingenious ❤
I can't help but imagine attaching some form of generator to one of the drive wheels converting some of that immense torque into electrical energy. You could possibly supply electric power to a good portion of your community with some conversions to just one windmill. What a beautiful power plant that would be!! 😊
Tapping into the grid and sharing the power with the usual providers would steeply decrease operation costs...
I've often wondered if anyone has done that yet with the old style mills...
Beautiful video. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers.
As a matter of fact, the outlets from the water being moved could also be a good source of energy with the strategic use of turbines.
There were some serious attempts to try this in the 1950's but the generators of those days put too much of a strain on the old windmills. With modern technology this is less of a problem but it is just not economically viable. Remember a miller has to be present at all times to operate the mill, as wind direction and speed can change any time. Current thought is that it is better to keep the old windmills as authentic as possible and leave the electricy generating business to modern wind turbines which are automated and far more efficient.
having lived in this city the funny thing is i never apreaciate our windmills much but after having traveld abroad im really startingbto admire windmills im guessing in zaandam
So fascinating! Thank-you, Thank-you.
I have traveled to this place earlier this year, I believe it's called Kinderdijk? Somewhere near Utrecht. It's amazing, all these giant ancient windmills preserved intact. We didn't get the opportunity to look inside of these windmills because it was too late, so this video really comes as a gift. Thanks!
Kinderdijk is in fact not somewhere near Utrecht. Just read the description or use google maps.
Very good! ... interesting. Thank you for sharing with us.
I love windmills!
Me too
How do you stop people from walking into the mill blades? In Afrikaans we have a saying when someone is (mentally) 'slow' "hy het 'n klap van die windmeul weg..." This comes from the old Dutch that was (and still is) spoken in South Africa. I only understood the meaning after I have visited Holland the first time and seeing how these windmills work and the fact that the blades run past the front door close to the ground. Easy to walk into if you are not careful. Good to see these mills still being serviced, renovated and used. Oh, I forgot, fot those who don't understand the saying in Afrikaans, it basically translates to 'he has been hit by the mill'. 😊
It's amazing how they built this back then. This would be hard to make even with modern tools
The build a new crank,for an old mill,with our latest technolegy.
Wel,it broke.
What a great piece of film and so well explained - brilliant. He looks a bit like Sean Bean the actor.
Great video! 😘😀 Mike from Missouri
Top video over Molens ,,Kirsten ,,Bedankt
There can’t be any birds left in the whole country what with all the windmills! Now a question, how much power (watts/joules) would this mill produce? I think the manufacturers of modern mills could learn a lot of valuable lessons from these amazingly engineered and long lasting wonders!