17″ Mini Windmill

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

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 November 8th, 2008

Once you have to top piece attached to the legs then start to attach the horizontal and diagonal braces.  Start at the top and work down toward the base.  Something that can help is to wrap a piece of masking tape around a finger – sticky side out.  This will give you the ability to [...]

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