The best aspect of living a Rural life is that, you get everything fresh. Clean air as there is no air pollution, fresh vegetable as everything is Organic.
Another important aspect is that you will get to explore many traditional and vintage items across many household. Still not influence much with modernisation rural people found the old stuff too good to use. One such item that I came across is the "DHENKI" that we call in our local language.
The wooden plank is placed in a way along the roomwall, that it function as grinding many grains like Wheat, Rice or many other items in bulk quantity. Let explore each of the part that makes it a great grinder of yesteryear.
The upper part of the " Dhenki" is very important as it help the material to grind properly. A heavy circular stone is placed right at the surface. The stone is carved out from the middle, in such a way that the grains and other items are placed on it. A strong wooden hook is tied at the top of pulley. The wooden hook is use to crush the grains on the stone.
The bottom part of the pulley is designed in such a way that it act as a lever. The long wooden plank is tied in between 2 woods to make it act as a lever machine. Also the floor surface is carved out to make space for the lever.
How to grind??
The only way to grind out the material is by hitting the top part of the plank into the stone filled with grain. The entire process require involvement of two person.
One person use to seat at the head i.e upper part and the second one wil stand on the lower part i.e tail of "Dhenki". The person sitting at the head is putting in the grain into the stine and takibg out the grinded powder material from it. Whereas the person at the tail end stand on the pulley to run the wooden machine.
By putting weight at the bottom part, the upper part get raised from the surface, when you release the pressure from tail end the upper part with the wooden hook/ hasmer fall on the stone surface theteby churning out the grain in the carved out space.
The pulley machine applies a sea-saw mechanics of UP and DOWN , which helps in grinding the grains.
Hopefully , I manage to explain the pulley working properly . The images were taken inside a dark room using my mobile with no light. I have editted the actual images to make it more clear.
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