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Some eye candy
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 9:54 am
by Wayne
Saw these this morning on SMOKSTACK. Could the power mill be an Elgin Hummer?
Windmills 1889.jpg
Windmills 2.jpg
Windmills 3.jpg
Is the Monitor the one built in Auburn In.?
Re: Some eye candy
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:08 am
by RPinAZ
Thanks Wayne. Those were great.
RP
Re: Some eye candy
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 4:43 pm
by jbar
See that one sign in the background says fertilizer. I didn't think they were fertilizing back then but I must have been wrong.
Re: Some eye candy
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 9:20 am
by Wayne
The y had been making fertilizer from bones for awhile, plus manure from cleaning out the barn. The first patent for a manure spreader was 1875, and fertilizer spreaders 1890's.
Re: Some eye candy
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 9:44 am
by Windcatcher530 Dan
The thing that amazes me is how beautiful those old original horse drawn manure spreaders were they had fancy lettering and pinstripes and bright colors just to spread Crap !!