Found a starter Mill project
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2023 5:55 pm
I work a lot and drive a lot just been busy with life but keeping up the hunt in the state I travel in for a mill . All the leads I get have been 6 hours plus and with only so much free time and logging 800 miles on average during a 5 day long work week the family life gets in the way .
Last week I got a lead on a 12' mill from an estate sell with no pictures ,Just that had been sitting for at least 30 years in the barn and never installed and there was oil in the crate but the Vane was sold to neighbor a year earlier cause they couldn't find the rest of the mill .They claim they paid a good bit for it and was asking around 1/3 of the purchase price . The only picture I got was the crate of the steps for the tower but had no idea of the size of the tower or what was all there. They looked in the crate looking for the mill and thought it was a tractor part at first the reason it didn't go with the farm that was just sold .
I took a gamble and drove the distance all 6 plus hours . When I arrived I noticed the long crate and two quarts. I asked where the sails where and was told under all the ther parts. I knew right away two quarts and the size of the crate could not hold 12' sails and all the other harware I was looking at . My hunch was correct and it was a 8 ft mill with a 40' tower. We struck a deal in the end for a lot less money since I was taking a chance on if everything was in the two cratees or boxes . Also the Vane the neighbor down the road will not sell no matter what . She snookered the lady for $15.00 dollars and wants for wall art.
I went through everything and the only items I found missing are the brake tower lever handle. The angles and v bolt is there . The pumping rod and of course the Vane. They think the platform is in the rafters with stiff on it .They thought it was just scrap wood .
Appears to be an early 802 with the fiberglass helmet . I figured it never lasted in production cause doesn't appear to be very stout and i never saw fiberglass last long with a leaking Corvette . I'll begin the hunt for the missing stuff if the seller can't find it. Either way for my first mill I'm excited .
Last week I got a lead on a 12' mill from an estate sell with no pictures ,Just that had been sitting for at least 30 years in the barn and never installed and there was oil in the crate but the Vane was sold to neighbor a year earlier cause they couldn't find the rest of the mill .They claim they paid a good bit for it and was asking around 1/3 of the purchase price . The only picture I got was the crate of the steps for the tower but had no idea of the size of the tower or what was all there. They looked in the crate looking for the mill and thought it was a tractor part at first the reason it didn't go with the farm that was just sold .
I took a gamble and drove the distance all 6 plus hours . When I arrived I noticed the long crate and two quarts. I asked where the sails where and was told under all the ther parts. I knew right away two quarts and the size of the crate could not hold 12' sails and all the other harware I was looking at . My hunch was correct and it was a 8 ft mill with a 40' tower. We struck a deal in the end for a lot less money since I was taking a chance on if everything was in the two cratees or boxes . Also the Vane the neighbor down the road will not sell no matter what . She snookered the lady for $15.00 dollars and wants for wall art.
I went through everything and the only items I found missing are the brake tower lever handle. The angles and v bolt is there . The pumping rod and of course the Vane. They think the platform is in the rafters with stiff on it .They thought it was just scrap wood .
Appears to be an early 802 with the fiberglass helmet . I figured it never lasted in production cause doesn't appear to be very stout and i never saw fiberglass last long with a leaking Corvette . I'll begin the hunt for the missing stuff if the seller can't find it. Either way for my first mill I'm excited .