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#21
Thanks Sam! Didn't appreciate the difference, we had windmills which were used for grinding wheat etc here but those were the traditional cone shaped building things with huge sails.

I wasn't aware of little ones like mellowinman's in use here for a specific purpose that I can recall, must do some reading, interesting. :-)
 
#22
This windmill did pump water at one time. The tower was erected in the 19th century, or early 20th. The original motor up there was a Fort Wayne model, which was made in that era. The tower is sitting right over the very well they used for animals, and possibly for the entire farm, as there was no plumbing in this house until roughly the eighties.
 
#23
Got you. I guess the house is out of town or in the country? We tend to forget with modern living that mains water etc wasn't always around.
So was this a wind driven motor which would have then pumped water out of the well for use in the house? Would it be connected to a pipe system or collected in a tank or something like that?
 
#24
MartinG1957 said:
Got you. I guess the house is out of town or in the country? We tend to forget with modern living that mains water etc wasn't always around.
So was this a wind driven motor which would have then pumped water out of the well for use in the house? Would it be connected to a pipe system or collected in a tank or something like that?
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Collected in a trough for the animals, most likely, and pumped into various vessels for use in the house.

Here is the view from my barn, to the South:

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To the East:

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Looking North, from the barn, you see part of the house, most of which is obscured by trees, some of which are over 100 years old:

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If you look at the space between the house, and the big Maple to the right, and then follow towards the base of the Maple, that's where the well is. The tower has sat over it over 100 years. When it was built, that Maple was probably not there yet.
 
#28
There are sill a few windmills around here that sill pump water for cattle tanks, but most of them ran dry after 2 inch wells for agriculture started being drilled and dropped the water table by about ten feet.

Never heard of an old windmill specifically made for power generation. Doesn't mean they never were, just means I've never seen or heard of one manufactured for that purpose. I could see some being converted to that use, but I would imagine they would mostly be old auto generators producing DC.
 
#31
I'm starting to think my dream of this mill creating any juice is a tad misguided. I have a big field where I could put a proper wind turbine, and I have five roofs to put solar panels on. I just need the capital to get those projects going. I wonder if my windmill guy could help me put up the turbine? He's more into wind mills than many of us are into bass guitar.
 
#32
Hi.

MartinG1957 said:
Thanks Sam! Didn't appreciate the difference, we had windmills which were used for grinding wheat etc here but those were the traditional cone shaped building things with huge sails.
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You're welcome.

I've been facinated about wind power as long as I can remember, I must've been about 12 when I made my first Savonius out of a bicycle dynamo and cut in halves beer can :).
We didn't have elecricity in our archipelago summer cottage, and I envisioned a 200L oil barrel Savonius wind generator to produce enough power to run the lights.
Then my parents had a land-line installed .

There's plenty of designs and all of them are pretty much designed to perform a specific task in a specific conditions/environment.

The engineering behind the various designs is hundreds, if not thousands of years old, and work pretty darn well in the task they were originally intended, having been perfected for hundreds of years.

The problems and misconceptions arise when people try to use the incorrect tool for the job or when they believe the marketing departments outrageous claims.


Fortunately for us, the 'net provides us with all the data we need to make an informed desicion about the most suitable one for our location and application.
What ever that application may be.


MartinG1957 said:
I wasn't aware of little ones like mellowinman's in use here for a specific purpose that I can recall, must do some reading, interesting. :)
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The Wikipedia is IMO a good place to start, the links will reveal weeks worth of reading.

Unfortunately when You're done reading both the good and the bad with an open mind, the wind power in its current form will not look quite as great as the tree-huggers want us to believe.

But then again, none of the renewable resource energy options in their current form will.

Regards
Sam
 
#33
Thanks Sam appreciate the info. I understand the general principles of the generation type - I do think they are a serious blot on the landscape when I have seen them in large numbers in wind farms. I've always been puzzled by these when I've seen large numbers of them standing still when there are a few of them spinning slowly away - obviously locked down but not doing anything when there seems to be enough wind to turn them.. You're right, I should hit wiki! Thanks.
 
#34
mellowinman said:
Collected in a trough for the animals, most likely, and pumped into various vessels for use in the house.

Here is the view from my barn, to the South:

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To the East:

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Due West:

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Looking North, from the barn, you see part of the house, most of which is obscured by trees, some of which are over 100 years old:

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If you look at the space between the house, and the big Maple to the right, and then follow towards the base of the Maple, that's where the well is. The tower has sat over it over 100 years. When it was built, that Maple was probably not there yet.
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I'd come to feel pretty content living in Florida over the last 22 years,finally....But seeing these beautiful pictures of your home reminds of all the years of growing up and living in Kansas and how much I loved spending my days in places just like this.
I haven't seen any images in ages that really gave me the sense of being back again,til now....Thank you.
 
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Hues said:
I'd come to feel pretty content living in Florida over the last 22 years,finally....But seeing these beautiful pictures of your home reminds of all the years of growing up and living in Kansas and how much I loved spending my days in places just like this.
I haven't seen any images in ages that really gave me the sense of being back again,til now....Thank you.
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Sure, man! I lived in Olathe for awhile, back in the eighties.

I've been everywhere, man, I've been everywhere...
 

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