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Phlash in OK · Jan 28, 2015

Finally got a windmill set that had been laying in grass for fifty years. After hauling it hundred and sixty miles, straightening the blades, making three new blades. First attempt was before Christmas when a rope broke and dropped the tower. Had to rebuild the top eleven feed. First attempt the TO-30 would spin pulling the tower, put the 9-N in front and pulled until rope broke. Second attempt used a winch truck to pull and the Ferguson to hold back. I'll try to post a few pictures .

matthies · Jan 28, 2015

Aremotor? Just curious.

Phlash in OK · Jan 28, 2015

Dempster #12 6ft wheel

Lazy WP · Jan 28, 2015

Hope you rebuilt the brake on it. I was always told a Dempster would destroy itself around here. There might be 1 Dempster for every 1000 Aermotors.

VaTom · Jan 28, 2015

Good looking. That a well head there?

I dragged home an an old Aermotor from New Jersey, scarce around here. Don't know when it last pumped, but my model was obsolete almost 80 yrs ago. Tower's in poor shape from the seller's removal, but it sure got a lot of attention on the trip. Old windmills bring out nostalgia in east coast folks.

Hope to get my well for it drilled this year. Water for a fish pond is my interest. Pretty windy on my mountain.

Thanks for posting.

big tee · Jan 28, 2015

I like windmills----always wanted one. I took three to make one good one. made my own bearing box.

big tee · Jan 28, 2015

close shot

rustyacres sd · Jan 28, 2015

Had one on my acreage that I was going to rebuild. Tower was there, but not the head. Tornado decided to take down the tower, so would need to find the whole thing. Was planning on putting in a big cistern for the windmill to fill and use it for watering, as the well isn't deep and kind of hard water.

Southern Ray · Jan 28, 2015

a windmill I built, yard art.
windmill on the homestead,
me and grandson in front of windmill.

jCarroll · Jan 28, 2015

got any photos or plans for the gearbox - to share?

We have just the tower, and a little bit of the motor portion.

I'd like to just rebuild enough to have the fan spinning.

fixerupper · Jan 28, 2015

Nice looking windmill. Oklahoma has more windmills still working than we have in Iowa, probably because more land is grazed in OK. Oklahoma farms are real inventive it seems like. When I was on the harvest in OK I saw three and four legged windmill towers made out of plain old pipe or any long steel, with a windmill head stuck on top. They looked like they had been there a long time. Here in my part of Iowa quite a few farms had a windmill but most of them succumbed to the wind after 70+ years. Seems to me like the windmills that sat among the farm buildings and groves saw more wind damage than the ones that stood in an open field. Must be from the turbulence caused by the surrounding structures.

Ian Beale · Jan 28, 2015

A contribution from Oz.

Southern Cross used to make direct drive ones (R Pattern) with wind wheels of up to 25 feet

VaTom · Jan 28, 2015

Wow. How did that direct drive pump work? And how deep was the well?

huntingreen2day2 · Jan 28, 2015

My Aremotor 53 foot tower, 8 ft fan. Put up one section at the time. Pumps water into my pond.

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