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Waterwynch Farm is near Red Roses in Carmarthenshire.
The wheel which most likely drove a selection of farm machinery had been severely damaged, probably with a sledge hammer for scrap. Fortunately a few parts remained where it had been too difficult to remove from parts from the wheel pit. There was sufficient sections of the shroud and ring gear left for me to establish its diameter and number of buckets, the hub details and the bed plate that carried the gears. A bevel gear was still in place some 3 - 4m above the level of the shaft Plummer blocks. This shaft carried a spoked pulley on the ground floor above. The clutch was missing so the detail I've used is similar to devices I have seen else ware.
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