Working on a windmill

nenmrancher · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:54 am Post subject: Working on a windmill

We had to have the motor rebuilt on this mill. The well its self is just 35' but it pumps up the hill in the background of the photo to another one of our big storage tanks, which takes a 14' mill to make the water go.

Before the well guys got there.

I messed up and uploaded the wrong pic this one was supposed to show them getting the truck rigged up and ready to lift everything off the mast. Instead I loaded one of them as they were finishing reinstalling the fan.

Tails on starting to work on the fan.

Almost done with the fan.

going up

getting ready to get it back on the mast

just right before it was set down on the mast and the last picture before my camera battery went dead.

The dang thing is so quiet now that you hardly even know its turning.

Jassy · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject:

Now that looks like a good days job that went well...that's a good thing! Nice pictures...thanks

Soapweed · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject:

That looks like quite a windmill. Ours are mere toys by comparison. Glad your day went well, and that you got everything up and working.

nenmrancher · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject:

Thanks Soapweed, Its was very nice to get that mill up and running again, I would much rather run it than the generator that eats 2.80 a gallon diesel fuel. Course with the cows running in the pasture that system supplies it doesnt take long to get behind.

newmexicobound · Member Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Posts: 51 Location: CA

WOW that's a biggun Laughing

What area is that if you don't mind me asking? It's beautiful.

Hooks · Member Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 693

nenmrancher · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:32 am Post subject:

NMBound, we live on the east side of the Canadian River about half way between Maxwell and Springer. The places that I think you are looking at are almost straight west of us across the river and interstate.

Hooks, this is pretty much the same setup. Just the windmill has a hard push to get the water to the storage. On top of that hill is three tanks that feed off the storage and everything is 1 1/4" pipe and gravity fed. The only place that you have high presure is at the windmill when the storage tank if full. When the storage is full it does make that big mill strain.

Hooks · Member Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 693

azcowpuncher · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:26 am Post subject:

nenmrancher , is their an outsit that is over there by springer that wilford brimley used to own ? If so i know the folks who bought it they are from arizona their name is perkins ? does that ring any bells ?

nenmrancher · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject:

Hooks, CS's country is all west and north west of us near Cimarron and Maxwell. We have known the Davis's for a long time.

azcowpuncher, Wilford Brimley used to own a place just east of springer on the way to Clayton. He sold it out and the last I had heard was in the process of clearing out so that the new owners could take possesion. Until now we had not heard any names as to who had bought it just that it had sold.

Course there is so much land trading going around us right now that its enough to make a persons head spin. In the last couple months 4 of the direct neighbors have sold out and have new owners. We have met two of them and one seems really good the other is a real estate man from Texas thats going to show the rest of us how to graze this country. Hopefully we will find out who the other two new neighbors are pretty quick.

azcowpuncher · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:54 am Post subject:

Yeah the guy that bought it his name is tom perkins , get ready to be seeing some of the dumbest crap you have ever seen , like get all your neighbors to help and then not even feed them raise 40 colts and never even start one of them and then sell them all at the sale for dog chow , over graze everything so bad that it wont grow back for years and years and years , first time i ever seen a cow reach her head thru the fence to get at green grass i was wokin on a ranch next door to tom and we were probly 60 miles from town and i was trottin up a fence and i seen the craziest thing i have ever seen ha ha a range cow reachin her head thru the fence to get at green grass ha ha and she was probly in a 80 section pasture . Yeah not a cowman at all , his family was but he screwed them all out of the family inheritance to get that ranch he has here and then subdivided it and bought that place over there , so ha ha we got rid of him now you guys get to deal with it ha ha . Soon as someone offers hima lot of money to sub devide he will sell and you will have houses all over the place .

IL Rancher · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:54 am Post subject:

Shoot, we have cows reach through fence al the time for grass, even on the first day in a new pasture, after all the grass is always greener..

CS Ranch, they have a CS brand on the left rib cage? Just curious, I have some cows that I bought out of Kansas that were born in New Mexico with that brand... Nice cattle, long trip to get here but they probably are the best fleshed cattle we have..

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