1780 · Horse Whim Winding · Werk 327 von 1.871

A horse whim beside a shallow coal shaft in the Ruhr valley, the whole machine standing at ground level under a low conical timber roof: a stout vertical wooden spindle planted in the ground carrying a large wooden rope drum near its top, two horses harnessed to long horizontal arms fixed to the spindle and walking a circular track on trodden earth beneath the drum, the rope leaving the drum horizontally over pulleys on a short wooden frame at the shaft mouth a few paces away, a basket of coal swinging over the shaft.