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The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:15 am
by JBarker
In case anybody is interested in this project to restore a 1848 Danish Windmill. What a great story and project on a very old mill. Click below to read more:
https://www.danishwindmill.com/
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:47 am
by Wayne
Pretty Cool! It is unique in that only the cap moves not the whole mill like the one at Lubbock.
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:14 am
by JBarker
Wayne wrote: Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:47 am
Pretty Cool! It is unique in that only the cap moves not the whole mill like the one at Lubbock.
I havent been to museum in Lubbock yet. Sounds fun
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 7:56 pm
by Mister Ed
There is an authentic Dutch windmill in a city called Holland, Mi. I believe its 250 years old and was the last windmill moved from the Netherlands in the early 60's. She is up and running, grinding various grains. They are pretty neat.
Beautiful area if any of you are ever around. Area is chock full of Dutch tulip gardens in the spring.
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:48 am
by Wayne
Wow! There is another way to move the cap. Like all windmill makers they all had a better idea. All through school as we I saw pictures of the Dutch windmills I never imagined they could move into the wind. I had always thought they were stationary.
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:10 pm
by JBarker
Mister Ed wrote: Mon Feb 18, 2019 7:56 pm
There is an authentic Dutch windmill in a city called Holland, Mi. I believe its 250 years old and was the last windmill moved from the Netherlands in the early 60's. She is up and running, grinding various grains. They are pretty neat.
Beautiful area if any of you are ever around. Area is chock full of Dutch tulip gardens in the spring.
Wow, great pic. I loved visiting Holland MI years ago. Pretty place.
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:42 pm
by Mister Ed
JBarker wrote: Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:10 pm
Wow, great pic. I loved visiting Holland MI years ago. Pretty place.
I cannot take credit for the pic, its just the best one I could find.
I didn't mean to derail your thread, but thought this one fit here too.
Also, neat to note on the De Zwan windmill (my post above) there is a "ships wheel" type of mechanism to rotate the cap. You can see it in the pic (that is why I snagged a pic from the back side).
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:00 pm
by JBarker
Photograph of a Dutch-style windmill (or grist mill) built by Fred Meiss, Sr. in 1870 on Spring Creek in Victoria County, Texas. pic 1911 year
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:51 pm
by Gregg
The Elk Horn Mill isn't to far from the trade fair. Just east of Omaha, north of Interstate 80.
Re: The Danish Windmill Project Restoration in Elk Horn, Iowa
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:40 am
by Wayne
Who would have thought we had one in Texas.