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Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 8:53 am
by Wayne
It looks to be an open gear so what is it? I like the picture!
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 12:56 am
by pcowley (RIP)
Wayne, It looks like it might be an Iron Turbine. I can tell that whatever it is that it is on a wooden tower. If that is what it is someone needs to find out where it is now and see if it can be bought. I think there is only about 3 or 4 in the U S and the museum in Lubbock has one. Australia has about a dozen down under.
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:11 pm
by JK Windmills (RIP)
Baseball?
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:04 pm
by JLM
Since we were on the topic of mushroom clouds and windmills.I found this pic it was taken at the trinity site.
Base Camp 1.jpg
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 8:26 am
by JBarker
JLM wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:04 pm
Since we were on the topic of mushroom clouds and windmills.I found this pic it was taken at the trinity site.Base Camp 1.jpg
was that the before or after pic??? lol
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 9:21 am
by Wayne
I'm thinking that was home base. What is interesting to me being an old engine collector. Is the vertical cylinder gas engine setting on the ground with it's head off. There are also some flywheels setting closer to the tower. There is a beam running from the windmill into a hole in the roof of that building. It looks like it is a walking beam and is pumping something in that building. Very Interesting!
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 8:11 pm
by JLM
I think that set of gears laying beside the old engine powered the walking beam.
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:13 am
by Wayne
That' s what I'm thinking. I printed the picture and put it under a magnifying glass. The engine probably quit and they brought in the windmill. That is some tower they put together. My mystery is it looks like to me the fulcrum for the walking beam is backwards.
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:17 pm
by JLM
Many of the old ranches in our area had alamo iron/ or samsco pump jacks with gas engines for back up during the summer months. Like the building in the picture they would have the gas engine in a building and trap door they could run a flat belt through.It looks like to me that is a very old setup probably an old ranch headquaters. I bet their was even part of a old eclipse laying around the tower.
Re: Black and White windmill shots
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:14 pm
by Kansas Rust Buzzard
There hasn't been any activity on this thread for a while so I thought I would toss out a new photo. Don't know a thing about it, I picked it off the net one night looking at photos. What do you gurus think it is? Would look nice on top of my building.