First steel Aermoter tower

[Windcatcher530 Dan]

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.

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[babraid]

Thanks for the pic

[windybob]

How can a person tell, Dan?

[Windcatcher530 Dan]

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. !!

[windybob]

Ok,, so the footpegs were cast, and not steel? or did they start with cast, and then go to steel? I have some old Aermotor steps, but they are not the pegs, they are the cross steps, like the old Monitor steps.

[Windcatcher530 Dan]

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

[Wayne]

I found an old Aermotor tower with the pegs on property my Great Grandpa bought in 1900. I figure my Grandma drank water from that well. Tried to make contact and buy it but never got any response.