Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Those cross steps came after the peg steps but are still early before the hoop ladder came into play around 1899 !!

How i know Bob is the farm it came from i was shown a photo of it with my Bell Hub on it with a date. If you see a Aermoter tower and it has cast iron pegs for a ladder it's the first ones made or the cast turn buckles your really lucky. !!

This tower is one of the very first steel Aermoter towers . It originally had one of my Bell Hub Mills on it. The tower came unpainted and with the turnbuckles on the X braces. Only one I've ever seen. It now has a 602 nestled on top and painted through the years.

I probably won't be to the trade fair Jim I've been pretty much laid up. But I do know where a monitor pump is in a field and I believe it's a windmill pump i have to try to locate the owner. No promises but will work on it when I can. Hope all is well. Dan !!

Tim talked to a guy that does well work and he said the idea i asked Bob and Ron about should work.!! when the time comes if things are better I'll give you a hand.

Hey Jim does the pump have to be a windmill pump or can it be just a hand pump?

Sorry to hear that Wayne. I guess I should be thankful for living here.!!

Robert did you check with Steve Adams he might have them.

Windy and Ron can Tim keep his 3in pipe and pump hooked to the windmill and just run a tee off the 3in and reduce it down to a inch and a half pipe and hook it to a pedestal pump with the the leathers next to the windmill sucker rod?

This morning like I do every morning I went to grind my coffee beans to boil my coffee and after two cranks it was empty. Dang so I jumped in my old truck and headed to the small town to the Cumberland farm store to get some more and on the way there all you can smell is hay fields and corn fields ...