Servicing the last of our windmills yesterday morning

Soapweed

Changing oil. Some windmills have good platforms on which to stand.

And some don't

Aermotor--a long-time respected name in windmills

From the point of view of the wind

Looking down on the pickup with all of our necessary "stuff"

My accomplice

Is he actually a cowboy?

Funny looking cowboy boots

Bird's eye view of yearling heifers

Around this outfit we believe in equal opportunity. We feed both Darling and Vigortone mineral.

We hire greasy grimy guys

With dangly doo-dads hanging from their differential,

As well as the more traditional W.A.S.P. types Wink

Fresh tracks after a rain, always a good sight

Bird on a soapweed stem

Cool clear water

Sunflower

Sunflowers and soapweeds

Even pretty when it is in its ugly stage

Happy little bird

Julie · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:37 am Post subject:

What a fun photo tour!!

Love the pics from atop the tower. I LOVE LOVE LOVE windmills -- to look at, photograph, paintings of, etc.... I gave up that tower climbing a long time ago Smile

Shortgrass · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

How deep are those wells, Soapweed? Sure is a nice stream of water. Do you have working barrels or do you have to pull pipe to leather them? Julie, I don't love windmills to service them. They are nice to look at, but all mine are pretty high maintaince.

IL Rancher · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:41 am Post subject:

WE keep talking about maybe putting some windmills in but it would probably be as cheap and easy to just put in normal wells or run pipe out to some of the fields here.. Maybe not but than we would have to find someone who pus the darn things up.. They used to use them around here and just ran them off the sand aquifer that is all of 10 feet bellow the surface of the ground (used to be more like 3 feet) .. Can get a lot of water out of that subsurface water...Proably be a better system than the wells we use..

Canadian_Cowgirl · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:55 am Post subject:

Good Pictures!! Heifers look good!! You cold never get me on one of those things!! Nice lookin wrench you got there! Wink

Katy

kolanuraven · Rancher Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 9981

Easy Katy!!! Laughing

Shortgrass · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject:

IL Rancher · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject:

Dpedning on where we have drilled and how much water we are going for the pump head is somewhere around 100-150 feet.. Generally with 50 more foot of casing below it if I remember right. We have put in three wells since we moved here.. But we also have sandpoints here and there.. The main problem with them is getting ENOUGH water out of them to keep up with cows. When it was 140 cows it could barely keep up and now they are worthless (And replaced for the most part)... Solar pumps might do the trick, mainly, I don't want to have to run electricity or piping 1/4-1/2 mile through sand as the trensching units don't work worth spit. This would be better for allocation of pastures and keep some of the alleys that we use to get to water a bit.. Cleaner.

Tap · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

Canadian_Cowgirl · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject:

Im sorry Soapweed, I couldnt resist!! Sad

Cal · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:44 am Post subject:

Nice pictures, and it's soooo much nicer to do that when the wind ain't blowin'.

Soapweed · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:21 am Post subject:

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