Black and White windmill shots

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spring hill bill
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Wow, my estimates based on the person standing by the windmill suggest that it must have been around 95 - 105 feet tall (from the ground to the top of the wheel), with a wheel diameter around 61 - 67 feet. That's a TEXAS - sized machine.
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Not only is the windmill big it looks to be on a 3 legged tower with an observation platform behind the wheel. Wonder if the wheel rotated into the wind under the platform. The platform was stationary.
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A couple of photos from the Windmiller's Gazette gallery!
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Hardware Store Brownwood, Texas, selling Aermotor windmills. Neat pic!
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I guess the prices are too high. They're all standing around waiting for customers. haha
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Kansas Rust Buzzard
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One of the many early irrigation systems in Western Kansas.
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That's cool! Are those all tailless Pipe Raymond or Dempster? An education everyday!
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Bobtail Raymonds, very few Dempsters around here.
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Do they still use the irrigation ponds?
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No, the last one I knew of was in the late 50s, then wells got big enough they went to flood, by the 70s and 80s we had some 2,000 +gal a min wells, now they are back to 400-800 gal mostly as the water is playing out.
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