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scubi63 Mar 26, 2008 23:19:32
Replying to beatles

beatles wrote:
jimit

you are on exactly the right track. here is a bit of a shortcut. you can divide the carousel into 15 equal parts and deal with only one if you like. with this in mind, i think you will see that if you took a two or three ton lorry and put a sail of this size on it , the lorry would be pushed down a level street by a wind of 15 mph.

have fun with it. i appreciate your efforts.

clyde

But have the lorry run on a road of grain and it will dig in and stop. Rollers would be worse.
There is also the inertia problem and the uneven wind speed. In my opinion this device would require constant attention (adjusting rigging and sails when it runs to fast, adding grain, push starting it when it stops etc) just to make it turn in a controllable way.
I think that the hugh effort required to build only one such device, and just to grind grain, is too far fetched for me to believe. Also the cooment on getting grain to the location, storing it until requred and the distributing it just compounds the issues (IMHO).

:o)

Scubi

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beatles Mar 27, 2008 11:48:55
Replying to scubi63

thanks,
the road would not be only deep grain... more like a hard surface with a thin layer of grain...

sure the mill required constant attention....just like a ship at sea...men had to attend to the sails at all times. but it was worth it.....and remember those old sailing ships were going half way around the world just to return with spices and tea... that is a lot of trouble to go to for a cup of tea.

as for the amount of work to harvest and carry grain.... my god, they carried 50 ton megaliths to the site and erected them... by your argument, stonehenge would never have been built at all. who would go to so much trouble just to observe the sunrise...........?

food was supremely important to the neolithic people.........as was their religion... the two were connected.

thanks for your comments. please keep them coming...
clyde