The Hungarian-style horse mill

The Hungarian-style horse mill was the best machine for the vertical transportation of salt. It was able to lift loads that weighed over 2 tonnes from a depth greater than 300 m. It was an improved version of the Saxon-style horse mill implemented by Austrians after the First Partition of Poland. Since 1861 it was replaced by steam engines and after 1913 by electrical machines. The Hungarian-style horse mill consists of a vertical driver shaft with a winding reel, a braking device, a device located directly over the shaft that enabled vertical transportation of salt, rollers for rope transportation, a shaft cover and four T-bars.