Koni tuulik (Puhja)

 windmill, mill, agriculture, interesting place

A wooden windmill of the Dutch type, common in southern Estonia, was built in 1893 by Jaan Koni (1852–1912), as he had to hand over the Kiho farm he had previously managed in Järvaküla to his 25-year-old son from his wife's first marriage. The foreman on the construction site was Peter Morgen. The octagonal pyramidal lattice of the body is covered with boards, covered with chipboard on top. The body rests on a shallow clay foundation. The head is shaped like a boat, the wings are destroyed. Stone pillars were installed around the mill to secure the tailstock and keep it in the wind. The grinding equipment included two pairs of stones and a sieve-grinder. Until the late 1980s, the mill ground mainly animal meal using electric millstones. The winnowing device for the grain was operational. One of the two pairs of millstones from the windmill era, the main mill shaft, the wheel, the upper gear and the spur are still in place. The sieve cleaning machine is still under the stone. During the restoration work in 2005, parts of the tower foundation cladding, some logs and the rafters of the mill head were renewed. The entire mill was covered with chipboards coated with a natural preservative.