the Netherlands has about 1,200 mills, but only a small portion of it is really good to live in. Judith and Arno Goubitz are among the very few millers who have the ability to. NU.nl take a glance at the seventeenth-century instrument that is now more of a home – and-bedroom-in-to-out.
it is not an ordinary house, that is, immediately upon arrival, all became clear. Jim is out walking to the bridge to be lowered, and the only way to get the windmill to reach it. And it seems to be a luxury, too, since 1995, everything here is still using a rowing boat. “It wasn’t the same as a force had,” says Jim, smiling. “When I’m grocery shopping was done, I came in a hundred meters down the road on the other side.”
We are now at the dining room table in a warm kitchen. There is a computer that is on the table, and a moment later, a coffee machine, but continue to breathe in this place, above all, an atmosphere of older times. The octagonal living room is warmed by a wood stove, and is decorated with old-Dutch tiles, looking out over a vast landscape.
‘, Especially in the summer, it is like ”
“By the window, you may have a broken arm over-shooting”, says Arno to talk about. “But, especially in the summer, it’s fun. Then we will be in our gazebo on the right and back, we sit back while the whole thing spins. Just look at the movement, it’s fantastic. It makes me really happy.”
at Thirty years old, lives with the couple have now been together in the house. Arno since 1986, Judith was there, three years later, in the. “I’m here to have a cup of tea drink it and have never gone away,” she said. “I know that I can be very romantic with the boat was to be picked up. There was a wind from the north, so that the blade ran along the front of the front door. It seems to me to be rather dangerous to to to to walk. I knew not that all of the mills and the two inputs are exactly for that purpose.”
her husband followed Judith to a special training at the miller-to-be. Right now they are both retired, doing odd jobs, they meet regularly in their homes. “Sometimes you see something and you’re suddenly in the day. It works like this. It will be deemed that you are right for the grinder every time.”
The only way to keep the mill in Baambrugge, it is by a draw-bridge. (Photo: Jim Goubitz).
the Roof of the mill, is a fragile place to be < / p> “After a hurricane, you often have little damage”, it says Here. “If there are pieces of the roof have fallen, you need to immediately take action on it. If you don’t live it, it might be less of a problem, but in the us it may rain in the bedroom, running. Luckily, there are in cases such as these, however, are quickly responded to by the owner, Utrechts landschap, a Landscape. A day later, there is usually a rietdekker to fix it.”
“if there is a windmill that is stationary, it is within five years of the past.”
Arno Goubitz
A skilled miller, must, in the meantime, also have a lot of work. And when that maintenance is not just repairs, but also the spin of the vanes themselves. Because rust corrosion. “That’s a hard one”, says Arno. “If there is a grinder who is always at a standstill, with more of the same for the rod at the bottom, is within five years of the past. The shaft is going more and more to the front, back, and the heklatten to fall off. It may be that all the way down, and lower it. So, you need to keep on running.”
it’s a big issue, the latter not at all. “On average we do it twice a week,” says Judith. “Sometimes during the day. It’s really a hobby, but a lot of fun to do.”
Huge draaiconstructie in the sails of a mill,
How is it that, in my mind, it is easy to see from the roof of the house. At the first floor, where a room can be found, leading to a steep staircase into an impressive piece of action, probably in 1672, and dates. “This is the kruiwerk,” explained Judith, with the vast draaiconstructie along the edges of the mill very good idea. For each spin, you’ll need the bearings to be lubricated.”
for example, If there is something are likely to run into is that it is not always so easily solved. “You have to not only figure out what the problem is, but also where it comes from,” says Judith. “Rose, I once had to go to the hood to, it seemed like the sound of it down, and then again later. Well before you condition, and in any case of problems, you know.”
“once in a while we organize an open day”, said he. “Then, to be able to have children in the arms, climbing in and out kruien works. You will then have the mill, so it will wind to the left. Then you will feel what it’s like to be twenty tons of it in motion.”
“The mill was the best thing on here, want to live,” says Judith. “Especially in the spring, it is so beautiful with all the birds. The whole of the garden is the purple of the pinksterbloemen. It is really fine and dandy.”
