In the first place, the
wheel was floated down to the towers, but there it got jammed and we
couldn't lift it up. One of the paddles was broken and a bucket wrenched
off before we could disentangle the wheel from the towers, and then the
wheel was carried quite a distance down-stream before we could drag it in
to shore.
Our next attempt was more successful. This time we anchored the wheel so
that it just cleared the towers, then fastening a couple of long guy ropes
to it, we raised the wheel on edge, while a boy stood on each side holding
the ropes to keep the wheel steady. The anchor rope was now slowly paid
out and the wheel was rolled in between the towers. This done, the wheel
was lifted up and the axle rod was pushed in, with the ends of the rod
resting in slots of the boards on the tall tower and in the crotch on the
shorter one. To prevent the axle rod from working endwise out of its
bearings, we nailed pieces of wood across the crotch and the slots against
the ends of the rod. Then we cast off the anchor rope and our wheel
started work, the cans dipping up the water as they were carried around by
the wheel and pouring it out of the top into the receiving trough, from
which the water flowed down into the filter barrel.
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