Page 1 of 1
local mill picture
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2022 11:37 pm
by Kansas Rust Buzzard
Who wants to guess what we have here?
Re: local mill picture
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 8:31 am
by windybob
WHite UFO's flying past the windmill.
Re: local mill picture
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 3:46 pm
by Wayne
We have a wood wheel vane less windmill of unknown manufacture.
Re: local mill picture
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:49 pm
by Kansas Rust Buzzard
Wayne, I would love to see a picture! Count the sections on this, its pretty big. I am suspicious it is a powermill pressing molasses as it looks like cane stacked up in the fore ground. Most cane mills had a team that went round and round but some here were belt driven so that is my bet but hey, I have been wrong before!
Re: local mill picture
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 8:04 pm
by Windcatcher530 Dan
That is a really cool picture.do you know the year it was taken?
Re: local mill picture
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:47 am
by Wayne
You are right about the big wheel I guess that is why they have two counter weights. One wasn't enough. Plus it seems to have a big mass setting over the tower. So may have been the gears driving the drive shaft.