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  • čas přidán 26. 12. 2019
  • Dutch Windmill Inside.
    Nearly everyone in the world knows the famous Dutch Windmills.
    But very few of you have seen them inside.
    In this video master miller Fred Prins shows his polder mill and demonstrates the sytem inside that keeps the feet dry of many Dutch.
    Once a year it is 'Mills Day' (‘Molendag’). Many mills are open to the public that day. But there are also various mills to visit throughout the year.
    You can check it out on Holland Holiday.net.
    The page of this video shows you all the possibilities.
    Enjoy this video!
    Music:
    Flecks of Light
    Invitation to the Castle Ball
    Calgary Hill
    Good For The Soul
    (YouYube Music Library)
    Animation Paddle Wheel: Wilcosproductions.

Komentáře • 138

  • @InfinitesimallyInfinite
    @InfinitesimallyInfinite Před rokem +29

    Marvellous engineering. The Dutch are ingenious innovators.

  • @MutarFuqueer
    @MutarFuqueer Před 4 měsíci +6

    This is absolutely fascinating! We can't make a car that lasts more than 10 years today without rusting out, but these windmills have been operating for centuries!

  • @jaymefunny7424
    @jaymefunny7424 Před 2 lety +25

    I didnt know you could live in the windmill. The engineering is amazing!

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před 2 lety +6

      Hi Jayme. You can't live in every mill. This is also a special mill, but it is not suitable for habitation: czcams.com/video/p-KnrwVfODA/video.html

  • @shanthishanthi4371
    @shanthishanthi4371 Před 2 lety +17

    Windmill inside view is amazing, thanks for sharing excellent video and useful comments 🙏

  • @sarac5157
    @sarac5157 Před rokem +13

    Yes - thank you very much, Fred! What a lovely man. So good to take such real pride in your work. Nicely narrated, too!

  • @anilshirsat4406
    @anilshirsat4406 Před rokem +5

    Amazing, how the man get benefits from the natural forces for his well being without harming the nature.
    Salute to the brains that thought of sustainable development, and also thanks to them.👌👍😇

  • @Captleemo
    @Captleemo Před 4 lety +42

    Fascinating. There is some serious carpentry skills involved in making one of those what with the wooden gears and all. I became curious about these after watching the movie Sleepy Hollow with Johhny Depp in which the interior of a windmill is shown toward the end of the movie.

    • @timothylongmore7325
      @timothylongmore7325 Před 3 lety

      I had the same experiance watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang years ago. Fascinating.

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      @juaquimgustavo4712 Před 2 lety

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  • @joehaefeker5752
    @joehaefeker5752 Před 3 lety +7

    Windmills are beautiful 😍 ❤

  • @davidhaynes3126
    @davidhaynes3126 Před 15 dny

    Elegant Dutch ingenuity 🇨🇦

  • @kennetheduardordonez2980
    @kennetheduardordonez2980 Před 2 lety +2

    I really want to live and stay that kind of place forever, clean air, great atmosphere, and peaceful place,

  • @jenniferlade2000
    @jenniferlade2000 Před 3 lety +7

    This was so helpful. We were reading “The Winged Watchman” and this video gave us so much more information.

  • @jimcoulter5877
    @jimcoulter5877 Před 11 dny

    I just can not tell you my opinion of these Beautiful windmills and the inside of them. Fantastic! Love the Beauty of them!

  • @hameshaindian4533
    @hameshaindian4533 Před 2 lety +1

    such a lovingly made little documentary. thank you all.

  • @bambangwinarso6420
    @bambangwinarso6420 Před 4 lety +2

    Excellent Windmill and video.. thank you..

  • @JBiggsNewJersey
    @JBiggsNewJersey Před 3 lety +6

    That looks like a great life to live right there. And no commute time to work!

  • @btbuilder0213
    @btbuilder0213 Před rokem +1

    after seeing this i want to construct a windmill in my farm. thanks for uploading this.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před rokem

      Maybe these videos will give you some extra information: czcams.com/video/p-KnrwVfODA/video.html, or: czcams.com/video/97l8FiRCfTs/video.html

  • @philiproszak1678
    @philiproszak1678 Před 3 lety +2

    Great video! Best produced windmill video!

  • @NoirMorter
    @NoirMorter Před 2 lety +1

    Awesome video in so many ways!

  • @forestrain1798
    @forestrain1798 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you. This is great!

  • @maxxx79119
    @maxxx79119 Před 2 lety +1

    Geweldig en mooi.

  • @codacoder
    @codacoder Před 2 lety

    Thank you Fred!

  • @coashddjj294
    @coashddjj294 Před rokem

    What a beautiful windmill and operation. Really enjoyed seeing this video, thank you.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před rokem

      Thanks! You might like this one too: czcams.com/video/p-KnrwVfODA/video.html

  • @watchguy79
    @watchguy79 Před 3 lety +7

    So cool, I want a windmill!!! LOL I love it, Fred is living life.

  • @john3775
    @john3775 Před 2 lety +1

    Some skill went into making those wooden gearwheels.

  • @smirkinatu5512
    @smirkinatu5512 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thank you for recording and posting this educational video.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před 5 měsíci


      30 / 5.000
      Vertaalresultaten
      Vertaalresultaat
      Thank you for your nice comment!

  • @harleybh74
    @harleybh74 Před 2 lety

    Amazing!

  • @joehaefeker1755
    @joehaefeker1755 Před 4 měsíci

    Those windmills are so beautiful ❤😮🎉

  • @postposs8013
    @postposs8013 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you I needed to know what a windmill did for this project I'm doing

  • @stonewall6225
    @stonewall6225 Před 2 lety +1

    I really enjoyed this video, thank you.

  • @Farmversations
    @Farmversations Před 3 lety +3

    Everything dutch is beautiful. Even the accent.

  • @thegoodhopegroupthegoodhop5637

    Baie mooi. Goeie mense. 👍

  • @RomanVideos1
    @RomanVideos1 Před 3 lety +1

    Simple engineering.. love it

  • @ruslan61
    @ruslan61 Před 3 lety

    Willed danke!! Das ist fantastische!!)))

  • @jayellis3109
    @jayellis3109 Před 4 lety +1

    Keeps him fit !

  • @ctg6734
    @ctg6734 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Too cool!

  • @vitin8493
    @vitin8493 Před 3 lety +3

    there's so coool for my history classes

  • @user-mp3of8hs8g
    @user-mp3of8hs8g Před 8 měsíci +1

    Cool 🎉🎉

  • @f8-4-4n-fighter8
    @f8-4-4n-fighter8 Před 3 lety

    Wow ingenious contraption.

  • @3ffrige
    @3ffrige Před 3 lety +1

    Wow! I want to live in a windmill! I can watch those gears turn all day lol

  • @narendrapinandita5778
    @narendrapinandita5778 Před 4 měsíci

    Thanks for those amazing Engineers who made the modern world

  • @gregorylewis9442
    @gregorylewis9442 Před rokem +1

    Love this old technology.👍😍

  • @paulaward6764
    @paulaward6764 Před 2 lety +2

    My brother Paul and I are part Dutch on our mom's side of the family.

    • @Paul_C
      @Paul_C Před 11 měsíci

      Seems all North Americans have a hankering to not be North American. Why is that? You invent a history that isn't yours, sure your forebears came in as immigrants, but you are a North American, not Dutch.

  • @samhodge7460
    @samhodge7460 Před 2 měsíci

    Wow, I had no idea the cap could be rotated!

  • @gouthamreddynathala1219
    @gouthamreddynathala1219 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Nice construction sir

  • @cz5899
    @cz5899 Před rokem

    Dope

  • @JL-nb1yc
    @JL-nb1yc Před 7 měsíci +1

    Just imagine, this technology could have been used this technology to develop toilets and showers in the 1500s. They just couldn't imagine it these things.
    That one action would have permanently changed public health and improved survival.

  • @ScreamingEagleFTW
    @ScreamingEagleFTW Před 2 lety

    ingenious

  • @herbertbell8089
    @herbertbell8089 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Long live Holand and her people.

  • @paulaward2075
    @paulaward2075 Před rokem

    My brother Paul and I are part Dutch on our mom's side of the family. Hello from Tyler Texas U.S.A.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před rokem

      Hi Paula, hi Paul! Thanks for your message and greetings from the Netherlands!

  • @m1legend496
    @m1legend496 Před 2 lety

    wow I love windmill!
    nanood ako Neto kase gagawa ako sa Minecraft sa survival.
    oh diba challenging!?😍♥️🇵🇭

  • @motherofgod8265
    @motherofgod8265 Před 2 lety

    I had to watch this for school

  • @charanckck
    @charanckck Před 3 lety +1

    Please show us how do you start the wind mill from zero motion.

  • @Gandeloft
    @Gandeloft Před 3 lety +4

    That is 500 years old..? I wonder about how often the wooden parts (meaning everything) needs to be changed..

    • @FredPrins
      @FredPrins Před 3 lety +9

      The straw roofing is not original :-). Neither the wings. The "frame" of the mill is original. All the wood inside: eight oaks in the eight corners and eight horizontal wooden beams are original. These eight trees felled between 1525 and 1527. The paddle wheel of the mill has been changed in 1842 with a mortar.
      Have a nice day, Fred Prins, miller

    • @Gandeloft
      @Gandeloft Před 3 lety

      @@FredPrins Thank you on the knowledge! How is the wood protected from rotting away? I thought that wood would rot away with time and that's why I assumed that the wooden parts are changed from time to time.

    • @FredPrins
      @FredPrins Před 3 lety +6

      @@Gandeloft The wood of oaks are very resistent and the wood was inside the mill, so protected against wind and rain.
      And . . . the wood in the mill is ages penetrated by the smoke of the coal stoves (or before wood stoves) . There was no chimney (or you can say the chimney was (ended) in the mill). Now the wood is hard like stone.

    • @johncotter1600
      @johncotter1600 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Gandeloft One of the other videos I watched explained that the chimney for the fireplace ends up near the timbers, so that keeps them dry and keeps the bugs out.

  • @allisonramirez7208
    @allisonramirez7208 Před 3 lety +3

    Anyone know how I can get in touch with Fred? My son is OBSESSED with windmills and LOVES watching Fred operate the windmill. I would love to write him a letter or send him an email.

    • @rolftenhulsen1686
      @rolftenhulsen1686 Před 3 lety +3

      Hi Allison, you can find his email adress on this website: www.groenveld-dorp.nl. I will also mail your request to Fred Prins.

  • @turbofan67
    @turbofan67 Před 3 měsíci

    I can't believe how fast it turns, that's amazing. Must get a real rumble up inside.
    I'd like to know what sort of bearings hold the drive and centre shaft.

    • @FredPrins
      @FredPrins Před 3 měsíci

      Inside the mill it's very quiet.
      The rotating shaft of de mill (with the wings) lays in two hollowed bluestones. The vertical shaft which brings the movement down has an iron pin. This iron pin stands in a steel container filled with salad oil.

    • @turbofan67
      @turbofan67 Před 3 měsíci

      @@FredPrins Thank you for the reply, that's very interesting.

  • @trevordvids
    @trevordvids Před 3 lety

    My inner dutchie wants to build one now just because

  • @jwijn
    @jwijn Před rokem +1

    In the last shot you see the windmill spinning,but the sails does not cover the wicks.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před 11 měsíci

      Sorry for the slow response! When there is enough wind, the blades turn without a sail.

  • @user-yn3yx3fh6u
    @user-yn3yx3fh6u Před měsícem

    ❤❤❤

  • @superkas
    @superkas Před 3 lety +1

    I like the narator accent

  • @kokeskokeskokes
    @kokeskokeskokes Před rokem

    I wonder how exactly they bent the rails into a full circle.

  • @ralphm4132
    @ralphm4132 Před rokem

    I wonder if there is any lubricant like bees wax or beef lard used on the teeth of the wooden cogwheels, and also I wonder about the main bearings that support the vertical shaft.

    • @FredPrins
      @FredPrins Před rokem +1

      For the teeth of the wooden cogwheels we use bees wax. We use pork lard for the horizontal axis of the wings. The vertical shaft has a iron pin in a oil tray.

  • @abundantharmony
    @abundantharmony Před 2 lety

    03:21 The big what wheel?

  • @mdegroot55
    @mdegroot55 Před 2 dny

    Can the volume of the music be reduced? It overwhelms the narrative and distracts from the images.

  • @bumpybumpybumpybumpy
    @bumpybumpybumpybumpy Před 2 lety +2

    Anyone know where I could find full blueprints to construct one of these? I know this is a monstrous task, however I am down for the challenge.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před 2 lety

      Something like this? www.molens.nl/product/modelbouwtekening-achtkante-poldermolen/

    • @bumpybumpybumpybumpy
      @bumpybumpybumpybumpy Před 2 lety

      @@hollandholiday4181 Yes, that will work. Thank you!

    • @ScreamingEagleFTW
      @ScreamingEagleFTW Před 2 lety

      @@bumpybumpybumpybumpy how much do you think the materials will cost you to build that windmill?

  • @paulawilson7685
    @paulawilson7685 Před 3 lety

    I have been inside one in the netjrt9

  • @chrisatkins7959
    @chrisatkins7959 Před 2 lety

    I’d like to hear the sound level from inside the mill while turning.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před 2 lety +1

      Hi Chris! The miller gave me a video with the sound inside the mill, but it is not possible to sent it with YT.

  • @aprendoespanol6833
    @aprendoespanol6833 Před 3 lety +2

    he surely doesn't need gym subscription

  • @Cjephunneh
    @Cjephunneh Před 2 lety +2

    Very nice video, but we could definitely do WITHOUT THE MUSIC. its annoying.

  • @bradleycooper5436
    @bradleycooper5436 Před 5 měsíci

    now hook it up to a alternator i wonder what it makes xD

  • @drweelz
    @drweelz Před 2 lety +1

    I wonder how many people have been punted by one of those blades?

    • @ralphm4132
      @ralphm4132 Před rokem

      Haha! I can just imagine a Dutch expression along the lines of "uhh...he stands under windmills too much"

    • @ric84
      @ric84 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@ralphm4132"Hij heeft een klap van de molen gehad/heb je een klap van de molen gehad" which translates to "he's been smacked by the windmill/have you been smacked by the windmill". Used when someone is acting crazy or excessively dumb.

  • @clearpill4498
    @clearpill4498 Před 3 lety

    What did the windmill say to the pop star?
    “I’m a huge fan”

  • @nordvoda
    @nordvoda Před 7 měsíci +2

    Если бы история не поменяла направление и не отказалась от самого первого ветродвигателя приложив ещё немного инженерной мысли, то мы бы увидели совсем другие ветряки и водяные мельницы. czcams.com/video/Md5sqdAv6Vg/video.htmlsi=sTYMVv5ZziATWhrD

  • @AnOriginalYouTuber
    @AnOriginalYouTuber Před rokem

    The engineering required to make these out of wood.

  • @gwyneddboom2579
    @gwyneddboom2579 Před 4 lety +1

    You didn't credit Rolf ten Hulsen for the footage. Also quite some information is incorrect.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před 4 lety +1

      We look forward to your comments!

    • @gwyneddboom2579
      @gwyneddboom2579 Před 4 lety +1

      Holland Holiday Thank you for getting in touch! Here are some issues I found:
      1:13 the mill shown in the picture isn’t comparable to the first polder mills. The shown mill is a smock mill with a tail, which only started to come around by the beginning of the 17th century. The first polder mills were “wipmolens”, which design has been derived from post mills.
      2:38 the footage is mirrored. Please don’t do that, it grinds my gears and it might lead people who don’t know better to think that that’s how it’s supposed to go.
      2:51 it’s called a scoop wheel.
      3:02 the level up to which an Archimedes Screw can pump water is limited by the rather small amount of power a windmill develops, but mostly by the length of the screw: the maximum is about 5 meters, after which it starts to bend and thus starts scraping the floor beneath it. This means that the screw (which is quite fragile) will be damaged and starts leaking.
      6:14 you don’t take the sails off just to turn the cap. All you do is take the brake off.
      I suggest also putting a link up to the website en.molendatabase.nl . This website contains a lot of information on all existing windmills in the Netherlands, and you can look for mills with certain specifications or look at mills near you on provincial maps.

    • @hollandholiday4181
      @hollandholiday4181  Před 4 lety +1

      @@gwyneddboom2579 I have forwarded your comments to master miller Fred Prins, the miller on the video.
      Since his (and my) english is not strong in this area, I translated it with Google translate:
      My English may not be good, but I don't understand most of it; Google translate cannot make meaningful text from a part.
      A justified remark from him is that if you make a mortar too long it will bend.
      That is hypothetical, there was no need for jacks of more than 5 meters. What has been the case in the past is that paddle wheels can hardly raise higher than 1.2 meters. Otherwise the paddlewheel will have a size that can no longer be accommodated in a mill.
      So a three-pass (three mills in a row) came to 3.6 meters head and there have been some four-passes (one of which still exists), which could thus boost 4.8 meters.
      With the switch from paddle wheel to mortar, the polder board saved a lot in maintenance of windmills, but especially in the wages of all those millers.
      I have not recently watched the film, but if it mentions that the mortar has no limitation in length, then that is intended in that context.
      It is therefore not correct that these mills were only built from the beginning of the 17th century.
      The Groenvelder from 1529 is now the oldest octagon, but certainly not the first. There are maps from before 1500, on which eight sides are drawn.
      He can look up the Groenvelder in the English-language database, which he recommends.
      Well, and what does he mean by 'you don't take the sails off just to turn the cap'?
      or with 'the footage is mirrored. Please don't do that, it grinds my gears'?

    • @gwyneddboom2579
      @gwyneddboom2579 Před 4 lety

      Holland Holiday I only have some responses to the last part of his answer: I was referring to octagonal mills with a tail, which de Groenvelder doesn’t have. And to clarify the things he didn’t quite understand: he will know that you can stop the mill without clamping the sails in order to turn the cap. And I really do not like it when people show (moving) images of a mill mirrored.

    • @legendfpv
      @legendfpv Před 4 lety +2

      @@gwyneddboom2579 Enough.

  • @ironsam2381
    @ironsam2381 Před 3 měsíci

    would have loved to hear what the mill sounded like without the loud music but ok...

  • @MoonWalkersbin
    @MoonWalkersbin Před 8 měsíci +1

    és mi forgatya?

  • @Crankyoldbastard1776
    @Crankyoldbastard1776 Před rokem +1

    great content but the overwhelming music in the background is a major bad thing

  • @paulawilson7685
    @paulawilson7685 Před 3 lety +2

    Meant netherlands

  • @mushromon
    @mushromon Před 7 měsíci +1

    Siapa yang datang sini daripada buku kerja geografi??😂😂

  • @adreanalangston3771
    @adreanalangston3771 Před 4 dny

    Fred is 75 at least in this video. Is Fred still alive? If he is dead who replaced him? In all of the Netherlands how many people over the age of 75 are operating windmills? what is the Netherlands plan to replace them after they die so the windmill tradition is not lost.

    • @FredPrins
      @FredPrins Před 2 dny

      Dear Adreana Langston,
      You are absolutely right: the windmills last longer than the millers.
      The craft of the miller has been recognized by UNESCO as world heritage.
      This high honor is partly due to the fact that the transfer of knowledge and skills of the miller is so well organized in the Netherlands. Each year, between 70 and 100 people in the Netherlands earn their miller's diploma after an average of three and a half years of hard work.
      And furthermore: I am still not 75 years old and, yes, I am still alive 🙂
      Bye, Fred Prins, miller

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    @jankuipers Před rokem

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    @CreamyBone Před 3 měsíci

    pete townsend

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    @damjandakic2003 Před 4 lety +1

    hashinshin windmill

  • @mvygantas
    @mvygantas Před 3 lety +1

    don't trip in that living room!

  • @gregorylewis9442
    @gregorylewis9442 Před rokem

    9000 windmills for grinding grain? Fast forward to 21 CENTURY and humans can't harness enough ELECTRICITY?😮😅😅😢

  • @manitoul1
    @manitoul1 Před 4 lety

    First! (Eerste!)

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    @tompipps3383 Před 3 lety

    TOM PIPPS FOAM- BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA USA HI HELLO &

  • @jimmy2060
    @jimmy2060 Před měsícem

    the gawdy loud music is not a benifit to this site, to loud

  • @stevenj9970
    @stevenj9970 Před 4 měsíci +6

    GREAT video, GREAT orchestral music HORRIBLE ROCK GUITAR MUSIC...what a waste.......

  • @dumptonpark
    @dumptonpark Před 6 měsíci +2

    Great video, worst bed music ever.

  • @roberti6565
    @roberti6565 Před 2 lety +1

    The cheesy rock music spoils the video