Original steel aermoter tower

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Windcatcher530 Dan
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Original steel aermoter tower

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This tower is one of the first steel towers made by aermoter.Their first steel towers weren't galvanized but painted this one has been repainted. Notice the X braces how they hook in the tower and turnbuckle.
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Kansas Rust Buzzard
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Re: Original steel aermoter tower

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Very nice, what color do you think they painted the towers originally? I always heard the original wheels were painted that dingy red like the Salesman Sample in Lubbock is?
Windcatcher530 Dan
Posts: 1901
Joined: Sun Mar 28, 2021 4:06 pm
Location: Alcove N.Y.i buy and restore

Re: Original steel aermoter tower

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Kansas Rust Buzzard Aermoters very first towers were just a square wooden mast or a three legged tilting tower.Then sometime in 1890 they sold unpainted metal towers and shortly after started painting them and I think it was black.
Windcatcher530 Dan
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Re: Original steel aermoter tower

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This mill i purchased years ago came from the same farm this tower came from i believe it sat on this tower same time frame.
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