Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

In 1866 it would probably been a threshing stone instead of a threshing machine. Here is a picture of mine, it was commissioned by the Mennonites when they got to Kansas and was owned by the local church, each family would use it, they laid tarps or blankets out and use horses or mules to roll the s...

Here is a Sandwich one that is open, if you look under the one in the above photo, it has these gears also. Almost every farm had them here, power sweeps are a lot harder to find and that is what I am after next. Thanks

It says Marseilles on it, its a complete, you sat it on the ground on blocks, it had pole that attached to the ring where the bolts are and the horse or team walked round and round in a circle around it. I got a Sandwich one also. You had to put a box under it to catch the ground grain and then dump...

Wow, I have never seen his collection but it must really be nice!

I don't have one yet but I just picked up my first Marseilles equipment made by that company. Anyone see this stuff in their area? So far Dr. Baker's book has been the only material I have seen but some of you guys probably got barns full of it?

Thanks, I don't think its the same just because I read on the larger, 20ft and bigger, they changed the degree for the outer set of sections from the inner. I am just assuming they hit a happy medium on the 18 as the blades are pretty long. I have rebuilt a lot of L Monitors and I have seen two diff...

Since nobody else has posted here yet, I shall begin..... I am wanting to get my 18ft RR Eclipse going pretty soon, I have most of the dimensions I need however, I am really going to pump water with this mill and wanted any of you experts to give an opinion of the angle for the slots of the blades f...

I have never actually known anyone who ate one, I wonder what they taste like?

Yea, Thanks Paul, I don't think I know you but this is very much appreciated!

I got a friend with a big house built in 1887, we measured it and it was 25feet deep and about 5 ft dia shaped like a bottle and all brick, the gutters off one side of the house and carriage house drained into it and at the bottom was a pile of rusted buckets. I got a Boss also, I don't have many bu...