Windmills. Who has one?

[Mrmerlinn]

I have always wanted a windmill and when I bought my 20 acres near Kettle Falls I started looking for one. I found one on c-list in Belgrade Montana and now it spins gracefully next to my house. Send pics of yours if you have one.

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[10mm]

I want a windmill for my 15 acres near Boyds. So I am really jealous of yours with its ever so graceful spinning. Looks like a great compliment to a great place!

 

[1775usmc]

I do when I move my hips fast in a circular motion.

 

[Mrmerlinn]

Mine is an 8' Aermotor on a 27' tower. I was lucky. It was disassembled and on the ground. The "motor" had been
re-furbished.

 

[Certaindeaf]

My ex would flap her arms all around whenever I changed the channel.

 

[kmk1012]

I can do a "helicopter" maneuver with certain body parts but a windmill is another level of skill, of which I don't think I'm "qualified". Good luck with your endeavor here OP.

 

[Bacchus]

I have always wanted a windmill and when I bought my 20 acres near Kettle Falls I started looking for one. I found one on c-list in Belgrade Montana and now it spins gracefully next to my house. Send pics of yours if you have one.

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That looks great!

 

[L84Cabo]

That is a fine looking windmill!

Does it do anything? Run a pump or generate electricity at all...or is it purely decorative?

 

[Mrmerlinn]

Just decorative for now. I do have a pump that I will someday hook up to a buried reservoir and re-circulate into a watering tank.

 

[Mikej]

That is a fine looking windmill!

Does it do anything? Run a pump or generate electricity at all...or is it purely decorative?

That's what I wanted to ask. I was told that windmills are going to save our planet from sure destruction from..."GREENHOUSE GASSES"!!!!

 

[Mikej]

Just decorative for now. I do have a pump that I will someday hook up to a buried reservoir and re-circulate into a watering tank.

Cool!

 

[parallax]

I can do a "helicopter" maneuver with certain body parts but a windmill is another level of skill, of which I don't think I'm "qualified". Good luck with your endeavor here OP.

As a young man I could do the helicopter but now that I am much older It's more like a fidget spinner

 

[flydipper]

I have always wanted a windmill and when I bought my 20 acres near Kettle Falls I started looking for one. I found one on c-list in Belgrade Montana and now it spins gracefully next to my house. Send pics of yours if you have one.

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Right in front of the new hangar being built! That is so cool!

 

[Camelfilter]

Neat! Do wind mills need high wind cut-off's? Just curious is all.

 

[P7M13]

I no longer have one, but this is the only type I've ever had:

 

[foxmeadow]

There was a windmill on our family property when we moved onto the place. The wooden tower had slowly disintegrated, gently lowering the mill to the ground intact. My father gave it to a neighbor who dumped it in a shed. Maybe 20 years later I asked to get it back and was refused. Fifteen years has passed and it's still there....

 

[Mrmerlinn]

Right in front of the new hangar being built! That is so cool!

Good guess on the hangar!

 

[Mrmerlinn]

Neat! Do wind mills need high wind cut-off's? Just curious is all.

They are built so they can turn themselves out of the wind to a certain degree. There is also a mechanism that can pull the tail vane parallel to the fan. It also has a brake that stops the windmill from turning. It is called "furling the mill".

 

[flydipper]

Good guess on the hangar!

Stands to reason with no columns/posts across the face of the building. How long is the strip?

 

[Mrmerlinn]

Strip is about 1000 feet and runs uphill for the last half before running into the hangar.