# How a Water Wheel Powers the Mill and Woodshop at Tafona Carlos Hage - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119506610879906115 - Source account: [@MilGrauNews](https://x.com/MilGrauNews) - Source language: Portuguese - Target language: English - Duration: 6:50 - Published: 2026-11-08 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/pt/como-a-roda-d-%C3%A1gua-move-o-moinho-e-a-marcenaria-da-tafona-carlos-hage.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage) And here, look, as I lower this here, it releases the water behind the barrier, right? [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=5) The more water I need, the more I—I open this lever here. [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=9) Now the water behind it has been released. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=11) This is what turns the waterwheel on and off. [0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=17) Now it's off. And here I let the water onto the wheel again, then it'll start up again. [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=32) Here we have the lower part, where all the power from the waterwheel comes in, the gear, the drive shaft here, look. [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=41) This belt carries all the power from the bottom up, right? [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=46) Now, I'm working the mill side. If I want to work in the woodshop, then I pull this belt over here. [0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=55) Then this side stops, and the machines work at the other shed over there. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=60) We'll see how the woodshop works later. And this wheel is what runs the whole operation. [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=66) It's like the fuel, The electricity, the mill's motor here. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=70) Is that right, Mr. Manfredo? It's true. Instead of having an electric motor there, see, this waterwheel powers all the machinery there, the mill and all the other machines inside there. [1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=82) And how big is that wheel? This wheel here is four meters in diameter. [1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=86) Four meters in diameter. And everything we're seeing here is made of wood. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=89) It's all made of wood. Yes. There's the, the axle, everything, only the ends are joined with, uh… [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=95) with, with iron, right? Yes, yes. And here's a wooden flume too, bringing the water. [1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=101) This flume is also entirely made of wood. [1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=103) The flume farther back was made of concrete, but in the old days it was all wood, right? [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=107) Today it's concrete, right? Only this part up here is, is made of, of wood, right? [1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=112) So the water is diverted back there from the stream And it flows back into the stream here. [1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=118) The water flows away, you know? Yes. There isn't much water being held back, nothing. [2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=122) It's just diverted, and the water goes back to its normal flow. [2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=125) It goes right back to nature, to its normal flow, right, for conservation. [2:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=129) Yeah, everything's in nature, and it goes back to nature. [2:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=132) How beautiful. So this cable here and this little wheel are connected to the lever for the water wheel over there. [2:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=141) Then I let the water in here, look. Then the water wheel opens up, the water over there. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=145) And then the machines here in the workshop start working, look. This belt here, one loose pulley and one fixed pulley. [2:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=155) Then I move this one over here, then the circular saw and the tenoning machine work. [3:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=199) Then we have a detail here in the wood. [3:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=205) It's a router, it depends on the tools you use there, right, to work the wood, make the details, right. [3:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=213) To work with the planer, We take this same belt from the circular saw here, then put it on the planer. [3:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=225) It's here. [4:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=244) Then the procedure is to turn on the planer. [4:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=248) I'll turn the water back on here above the wheel, then it starts picking up speed again. [4:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=254) Now the water is flowing over the wheel and it'll build up power. [4:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=286) And what was made here at this woodworking shop, Mr. Manfredo? [4:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=291) Here, my father made all sorts of things. [4:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=293) He made doors, windows, our house over there, the doors, everything was made right here. [4:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=299) And he made chairs, like this one here, even that chair of ours over there. [5:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=305) This one is also a chair that he made. Back then, he also made water wheels. [5:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=312) Here we have models of water wheels. This is a model of a water wheel three meters in diameter. [5:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=319) Here are other models, four meters in diameter. [5:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=323) Well, actually, he made furniture in general like this, but he only made it here for our community. [5:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=328) He didn't make furniture for, for far away, only for, here for, for our community here, you know? [5:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=335) Mr. Manfredo, we're impressed by all this setup, and folks, this is a history lesson. [5:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=341) We're learning so much here right now. We thank you so much. [5:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=345) And we also have a question: The waterwheel runs on water. [5:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=349) And what happens during a drought? Has there ever been a really severe drought here? [5:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=353) Let's talk about something very important, Mr. Manfredo. [5:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=355) The name of this place. The name of this place is, we named it in memory of my father, the Tafona Carlos Hage. [6:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=365) This is the— if anyone happens to be interested in visiting the place, they can look it up there, the Tafona Carlos Hage. [6:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=373) There's an address, folks. Just enter it in Go- Google Maps, right? [6:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=376) Then you put it in, and getting here is easy, we had no trouble finding it. [6:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=381) And visits are accepted by reservation. Yes, by reservation. That's right. [6:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=386) Our phone number is, is \[47\] 99981-4320. [6:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=392) It really is by reservation. We definitely, uh, recommend it. [6:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=396) Ibirama is a beautiful city, with lots of nature, and lots of adventure tourism that we'll also show here on our channel. [6:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=403) And for sure, folks, this story can't be left unknown. [6:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ppWPFj6E6Wxv/en/how-a-water-wheel-powers-the-mill-and-woodshop-at-tafona-carlos-hage?t=408) Come visit.