The Tjasker is a traditional watermill located on Gorthoek in the town of Nijeveen. The mill is a small, traditional ’paaltjasker’, with four sails mounted on to a windshaft. This kind of mill is normally used to raise water when only a low head (less than two metres) is required. The mill has an archimedes screw at the lower end, and this screw raises water into a collecting ring, which is drawn off into a ditch at a higher level, thereby draining the land.
