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Servicing the last of our windmills yesterday morning
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EmptyPockets
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting pictures Soapweed. How high off the ground are you? About 30 ft in the air? Make sure you are careful up there and don't go dropping that camera. We'd miss your great pictures!

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Shortgrass
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That is what I experienced in the sandhill 30+ years ago. The working barrels are so much faster and eaiser to leather. In this country we have to use 1 1//4 pipe because the water is deep enough that a 3" pipe would be too hard a pull. We have to pull pipe & all to leather.
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Jassy
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great pictures! I've often thought of pictures from up on a windmill...but I'm to chicken to get up that high..Tried talking hubby once into taking pictures for me, as he was trying to reattach the spring to the head...alls I got was a dirty look, and the question how in the hell was he suppose to take pictures while trying to work and hang on at the same time..lol MEN...they make things so complicated..lol
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Jinglebob
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
IL Rancher wrote:
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..


Kind of funny, most of the mills on this place came from Dad's cousins, just south of you, back in the early 60's. They tore them apart, starting from the top and Dad hauled them home and used one tower from there for two towers here. And they are still too tall! :shock

Laughing Laughing

I've went to putting in large tank resevoirs by my windmills to hold enough water for when a big bunch comes to water. I've got 3 windmiills I still use, but am going more to electricity and piping.
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IL Rancher
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If they came from the area you visited when you came back those many moons ago than it would be just to the north of us but that it wouldn't take much distance south of that town to be just to the south of us.... We have TONS of old windmill towers around here.. Some folks still have the blades and stuch atatched and in operating condition but they are strictly decrotive now as everyone that I know of has swtiched firt to sand points and than to submerged deep wells... I am not even sure how legal it would be to put in a windmill off the surface aquifer, I know plumbers aren't allowed to mess with them too much anymore (Health deparetment)... I think our towers around here ar eno more than 30 feet but I have seen some taller ones... Sometimes they are the only thing left at an old home site,kind of like a countryside gave marker.
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Miss N. The-Hills
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great pictures!

And impressive:

1. That you could hang on and take pictures at the same time.

2. That you both fit on the platform, and you trusted its strength enough to do it. I saw many old wooden platforms that looked pretty iffy. I usually got lucky and got to stay on the ground and empty the oil buckets coming down on a rope. But my unfortunate brothers had to climb the rickety ones.

I don't blame the boy for his choice of footwear for climbing mills either. Smile Might have a good grip to 'em.
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