Mini 17″ Windmills

Ronald Headley on January 29th, 2012

Here is a video of a live steam G Scale out-door model railroad and two of the 17 inch mini windmills. Really amazing!!!

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Ronald Headley on January 29th, 2012

Here is a Video of a couple of the mini windmills used in a G Scale outdoor model railroad  

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Ronald Headley on January 25th, 2012

A couple of Texas tailed mini windmills will be appearing sometime soon on this customers G Scale model rail road.  The mini 17 inch windmill are just about the right size for G Scale and they also look good on 027 gauge.  Click the photo to open a new window and click the photo again [...]

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Ronald Headley on June 25th, 2010

Back in the late 1890’s there were a number of windmill companies in the Midwest.  As people began to develop agriculture in the Midwestern plains a source of good clean clear water was found 50 to 100 feet below the surface.  The Midwestern plains has few rivers.  Livestock was a part of farming and windmills [...]

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Ronald Headley on June 25th, 2010

The second new mini windmill is a model of the ELI from Kregel Windmill Company – Nebraska City, Nebraska.  “Stop working for the oil kings!”  Use the wind to pump water and save time and money.” from a 1922 ad for the Eli Windmill Company. (make one wonder if we had paid attention to this [...]

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Ronald Headley on June 25th, 2010

There two new mini windmills now available.  This is the first of the two.  This is a model of the 1922 Dempster from Dempster which was located at Beatrice Nebraska.  Dempster Mill Manufacturing was founded in 1978.  The made windmills, hand pumps, water well products and agricultural implements.  The company today is still in Beatrice [...]

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Ronald Headley on July 11th, 2009

This is the second of the brand new mini windmills Kansas The Sunflower State.  This mini windmill has a green gearbox, Kansas the Sunflower State in Brown and a yellow and brown sunflower on the tail.  The Wheel is unique with a Yellow sunflower and a brown wheel hub.

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Ronald Headley on July 11th, 2009

Here is the first of the two brand new mini windmills.  The is a model of the Kirkwood Steel Mill – Arkansas City, Kansas.  This mini windmill has a black gear box, black trim on the wheel and black lettering with red trim on the edge of the tail.

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Ronald Headley on July 10th, 2009

Here is the plain tailed 17″ mini windmill.  Red Trim on the wheel, red gear box, plain Galvanized steel tail .  Included with each mini windmill we include a “pocket” screwdriver.  These windmills take a couple of hours or so to assemble.  Located in the older posts are a series of instruction on how to [...]

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Ronald Headley on July 10th, 2009

This is the original 17″ mini Aero windmill.  These have been manufactured since 1946 by a small company in Nebraska.  The gear box and trim is red.  Galvanized steel.  Shown in a toy farm scene.

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