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Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:12 am
by hedgerow
hwy8 Thanks for posting the pictures. That's a neat set up. Lots of old cisterns around in my area. Some are in basements under the kitchen and had a well pump in the kitchen sink. A lot of them were fed off the gutters on houses. FIL used to tell the story of when he was a kid having be lower into a old hand dug well to clean the died toads out when the water started tasting strange.
Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:28 pm
by Linda Jacox
Friend of ours has this tank/tower in his back yard (sorry it's sideways - just click on it):
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Nice one we found in Nebraska:
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Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:06 am
by mtblah
Linda , never appoligize for your photos , they are always good !
Mike B
New Braunfels TX
Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:58 am
by Windcatcher530 Dan
This is the one I have for sale on the forum in case someone didn't see it.
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Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:45 am
by hedgerow
LInda Thanks for posting the picture. Is that set up in Nebraska? I have never seen one in person.
Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:25 am
by Linda Jacox
Yes, it is in Nebraska, but the photo was taken a number of years ago and we haven't been back to see if it is still standing.
Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:00 am
by hwy8
These illustrations are from the F&W catalog in the Technical Library here on the site. The catalog says, "We have a large variety of designs for the arrangement of these towers, and they can be built as elaborate and ornamental as may be desired." I'm starting to think about building something and wondering if anyone has any of the designs the F&W catalog mentions. Or, for that matter, can anyone suggest where I can look? (It's not going to be too fancy but I'd like to at least dream about it!)
Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:03 am
by Windcatcher530 Dan
Both of these ornate buildings have water tanks in them. The windmills are long gone and I don't know what kind they were. The first picture the windmill sat next to the building and pumped into the top of the tank. The other one the windmill was on top.
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Re: Enclosed Suburban Outfit
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:33 am
by hwy8
I'm guessing that the primary reason to enclose the water tower was to keep it from freezing up, or at least, to slow it down....or maybe, "fancying-up" the thing was to make the neighbors jealous...Look how much fun these folks are having; although, it does look like that flagpole is a little close!