Chain and Bucket Well - Soller, Mallorca, Spain - Preserved Architectural Remnants and Ruins on Waymarking.com

The well is stone built and because used a chain of buckets could draw a large volume of water.

A mule would have been used to turn to the wheel that drove the chain of buckets and so the remains are larger than would perhaps be expected for a well.

A plaque standing next to the well explains its operation Catalan.

La sinia es un enginy per elevar l'aigua subterrania. Esta formada per una roda horizontal, anomenada rodet amb bracerois, moguda per una bistia que volta, i amb la qual engranen les dents d'una altra roda en aquest cas vertical, que porta una serie de recipients de fang, caduf o catufol, disposats al llarg d'una cadena sense fi. En rodar, els cadufs es submergeixen dins l'aigua del pou i l'eleven fins a la superficie, abocant-la dins una pastereta des d'on es conduida a un safareig o directament al requiu.

The English translation is.

The wheel is a device to raise the groundwater. This includes a horizontal wheel, driven by laborers turns a cogwheel which meshes with the teeth of another wheel in this case vertical, which carries a number of earthenware pots, or buckets along an endless chain. In operation, the buckets draw water from the well and raise it to the surface, pouring it into a channel from where it led to a wash room or directly to a container as required.

Type: Ruin Fee: No Hours: Stands in an open area next to a road that is accessible 24 hours a day. Related URL: Not listed

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