Technical Details
The internal wheel is breastshot and is unusual in that it carries three sets of clasp arms around the timber axle. It measures 17 feet diameter and 6 feet wide. An 8 foot iron pit wheel is driven off the wheel axle and meshes with an iron wallower of 3 feet 2 inches. The spur wheel measures 7 feet 4 inches and drives two stone nuts of 18 inch diameter.
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