How do Dutch Windmills Work?

On our Amsterdam WIndmill Tour, we show you this is the lovely, almost 400 year old, windmill. We visit it on our spring tulip tour as well as on our summer & fall windmill tour. It was used for centuries keep a drained lake dry. The lake was drained in the early 1600s to make much needed farm land. Now the windmill is run by volunteers who keep it in good working order, preserving their Dutch heritage.

[@charleneong]

Incredible and beautiful demo without a single word. I actually understand more abt windmills in (1) minute than i did from a futile half hour of googling

[@ThatDamGuide]

Great to hear, thanks!

[@sudanemamimikiki1527]

very useful info for me. thank you very much

[@JackieW-wh3my]

Great video

[@bakersbread104]

i want to know what the bearings look like. What's holding the axle sideways because they definitely don't have steel ball bearings right?

[@KarolOfGutovo]

I always wondered how the actual pumps powered by those windmills looked like

[@ThatDamGuide]

The original water pumping mills used a paddle type wheel that lifted water about a metre. These archimidean screww types were much more efficient and lifted more water higher.

[@farzanamughal5933]

@@ThatDamGuide Roughly when were the archimidean screws adopted?

[@gozimusable1]

Can we all just appreciate nobody was asking for a thumbs up and not 10 minutes long?

[@aneyesky]

So it uses wind combined with flowing water to pump more water from one area to another?

[@DaybreakSystem-x8q]

Maybe you took "show, don't tell" a bit too seriously, I'd like someone to tell me what's going on.

[@KingofPirates_]

What do I do with this information?

[@rarogesapens6755]

Africa could never!!!