{"id":65029,"date":"2026-05-08T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65029"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:16:27","slug":"overshot-water-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65029","title":{"rendered":"Overshot Water Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Overshot_Water_Wheel.png\" alt=\"Overshot Water Wheel\" width=\"1487\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Overshot_Water_Wheel.png 1487w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Overshot_Water_Wheel-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Overshot_Water_Wheel-1024x744.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Overshot_Water_Wheel-768x558.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Waterwheel (Overshot or Undershot):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ideal for streams. Build wooden frame with paddles\/buckets. Mount on axle with bearings (wood or scavenged metal). Connect via gears\/shafts to grind grain, pump water, or run bellows. Efficiency: overshot best if you have drop.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterwheel (Overshot or Undershot): Ideal for streams. Build wooden frame with paddles\/buckets. Mount on axle with bearings (wood or scavenged metal). Connect via gears\/shafts to grind grain, pump water, or run bellows. Efficiency: overshot best if you have drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65031,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65029\/revisions\/65031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}