Sugar Mill Gears

These gears are Living history! Salvaged from the Waikapu Sugar Mill that was operated by C Brewer and Company until the early 1980's they have been re-interpreted through the vision of Bill Kohl. Each gear weighs 12 tons and worked in tandem with the flywheel segments and cane roller adjacent to our pond.

Kalakaua Coach Car

Narrow gauge passenger coach cars made their debut on the island of Hawaii In 1883. After the King and his entourage rode the first train. The teak passenger cars were named the “Kalakau cars” This car is the only one surviving of the six that were brought to Hawaii.

Factory Pipes

Heat was an important part of the process in refining raw, sugar cane into syrup. These pipes had a long tour of duty and after being buried and abandoned thewy rise again

Sugar Mill Cane Roller

Powered by the massive gears on display at MTP. This roller was on e of a tandem that pressed raw liquid from the cane stalks. The liquid was then transformed to molasses and eventually refined to sugar.

The Hawaiian cane & sugar mill at Pu’unene is the only remaining mill in the islands.

Windmill

Flywheel

Used in the Waikapu Sugar Mill, each of these flywheel segments weighs 18 tons!

Here’s how they worked in tandem with the gears you also see on our grounds.

A flywheel is a rotating mechanical device that is used to store rotation energy. Flywheels have a significant moment of inertia and thus resist changes in rational speed. Energy is transferred to a flywheel by applying torque to it, thereby increasing its rational speed, and hence it stored energy

Cane Grabber