Laxey - The Mines Trail - T-Rocker

2003

Laxey - The Mines Trail - T-Rocker

The T-rocker on the Laxey Mines Trail, which converted the horizontal motion of the pump rod into vertical motion at the shaft. The Great Laxey Wheel was a pump, not a mill: it lifted floodwater from the Glen Mooar workings up to the Main Adit.

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