ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

The windmill is situated on the hill behidn the village of Yamka. It is a typical local agricultural structure, supported by a huge wooden ‘post’ (a solid log) and elevated above the ground. The building of the windmill itself is installed on a rectangular ‘platform’ made of strong boards. The construction is two-storied.

The rotation of the windmill is allowed by an axial post set into the ground and blocked up by log crosspiece. Six lower longitudinal beams of the windmill base are connected hard with two transversal beams lying on the crosspiece itself and adjoined to the axial post. They form a turning platform of the windmill. The longitudinal beams of the platform have supplementary transversal connections from the side of an impeller wheel, under the transversal walls, and from the side of the doorway. The mill could be turned with the help of overhung protrudent lever connected hard with the ‘platform’. Stepped strings of the small stairs are fixed to the protrudent part of the turning area. A three-jamb door on the transversal wall serves as a doorway to the windmill. The floors on the first and the ground floors are laid on five transversal beams that are cut into the walls and two longitudinal beam located near the axial post. There is a manhole in the planked floor of the second floor. A massive shaft is rotated by an impeller wheel with six impeller vanes. A pinion wheel fixed on the shaft passes the rotation to the millstones and puts the stamps into forward motion. The longitudinal walls are blank. The beams, crosspieces, post, and a lever are made of logs. The walls are made up of wide, strong boards fixed aflat. The windmill has a gable roof supported by ledgers. The boards of the roof are joined together by a ridgepole on top.