Would be cool to see it spin that close up. I am building a mini 32" and trying to make it look some what close. This was very helpful in my build and enjoying watching since it pouring down rain and don't want to watch tv
You do a good job of explaining wish I had known that back in 90’s when I started working on those old heads , just had to figure it out for myself back then in the day . Good job
You can see they are built for the wind. That thing wants to take right off while you’re working on it. I love windmills. I have always liked them even when I was a little girl. I remember the windmill that my great grandfather had on his farm. I was fascinated with it, but I never understood how they worked. Thank you so much for having this channel because it’s helping me understand more about how water can be pumped with windmills. What a great idea for people who want to live off grid.
Oh yeah! They know what they want to be doing! Most of the time we’re fighting the wind, until it’s time to watch it make water at the end of the days labor, then it completely stops blowing! Thank you for watching!
Great video, nice to see a new one assembled. I was wondering why when you installed a rebuilt one, it wasn't cleaned and painted unless they wanted to keep it old looking? Have a great day
Sometimes when you get your new parts from the factory tha1/4” rod has the wrong angle bent on the ends and you can open the bend a little that will help you with the furl to fit better in my experience maybe you can try that or not
That’s it! Yep, so I sent back the bad one, it actually was a bad one, that had all kinds of issues, my good luck is the only reason it made it to me! Haha. Thank you for watching!!!!!
Puddin and sent me over🎉 Wind Mills are cool.I'm interested in finding out what your contents about de generate electrical power with them as well.As pump water❤ ps I liked, subscribed, commented, and shared.🎉
@@OkieWindmiller Can you just hook up a police or something in a belt to a generator an electric mean it's basically a electric windmill or could be couldn't it
You would think, but people have attempted it, and at one time, Aermotor had one out, in the days of the early electric, but due to the blade design, the didn’t work well. For some reason, wind turbines all have 2 or 3 blades, probably for slipstream aerodynamics or something……..
So without getting into too much detail or exact figures which I'm sure that each job pays different but what is the average job pay ballpark and what was the most expensive job you have ever done? Also do you do land survey for installation or is that already done by the time you get onto a job? Again I'm gonna ask a million questions about something so there's that! And when why how and who got you into doing this type of work?? Oh and if you need containers for storage I know someone in OK that can do that for you. And he will deliver and I trust him known him for years so I stand by what he does and sells. Just a thought and quick sales pitch hahahaha 😂😂😂 definitely enjoy the content
Awesome thank you for watching! So average would have to be probably 1-2 thousand. We do so many yearly services that are $110 so that would throw the calculation funny. Highest was around 30K, but that was a huge job. Not a lot of money in this field for the amount of labor. We don’t land survey in terms of utilities/buried stuff, that’s up to the customer. Thank you for the questions and I hope these help!
I got into it myself, part time back in 2004 when mama bought me my first windmill. It had been destroyed and I had to rebuild it. I did it as a side business until Nov 2022 when I left my full time to do this full time!
I particularly enjoyed the comment about getting defective components and having to scrounge a similar (identical?) one from 100 years ago!! Wouldn't life be grand if manufacturers didn't redesign their products every five years? I was hoping to learn more about the mechanism that folds the tail and locks the wheel. Is that the only way to prevent these windmills from being damaged during high wind? That must be terribly inconvenient if a farmer/rancher has 6-8 of these rigs and a storm is coming in fast. What happens if they're not locked down during a 70 mph storm?
Howdy! Thank you! Yep, it’s sad. I called them and they did say they had just gotten a new mold for the part. Never fails. I will do better at trying to be more complete when making the videos. It’s hard to know as I’m filming to know what to put in it or not. We’re new and getting better, I hope. 🤞🏻 So I service large ranches that have 20 plus windmills and that’s part of it. Most do take the risk of leaving it open all the time, some are very on top of protecting their investment. I do set the spring tension so that it’s safer. Stick around and I will do a full on go-over on the windmill design and features. Thank you again sir!!!!!
@@OkieWindmiller Looking forward to a short tutorial on how they work and how to operate and maintain them (even though I'll never own one). I retired to North Texas (east of Dallas) and discovered the area is plagued by flood and drought -- sometimes in the same year. I'd like to have a well with a windmill but there's no water here.
@@OkieWindmiller Not so! The history of N. Tx water is full of problems. The native americans who lived here first warned the white settlers to stay away from the area because of unpredictable rainfall and river flow. They didn't listen and built Ft Worth and Dallas. Residents have suffered drought and flood ever since. Small towns that depended on wells quickly outgrew their water supply after WW2 and started building lakes to store water.
Just visiting, via Puddin'. I scrolled back to this, so maybe now is different, but I will be visiting again. I hope you are doing something different with fast forward, as the voice speed up was annoying. On that subject, later you brought in music, but I think your whistling was NOT annoying. Maybe you could record some of that, for fast forwarding, become your signature without any copywrite issues. And I feel you, noise at work is life, but the tinny, banging stuff is not ideal for people kicking back and watching after work. Maybe mute that a bit!
Thank you so much! Yes, I’m still learning this software, and it sounds totally different on the computer, then so much different on TV. I have noticed the same thing! I will do exactly as you ask. Thank you!!!!!!!
Yep, so I sent that lever back to Aermotor and they said it somehow was out of the scrap pile. It was a bad casting along with misdrillled holes! Crazy luck of mine!
Do it!!!! It might be a 6’ tho. That’s the smallest they made, unless it’s been altered, which I have seen. I’d it has an X on the gearbox, that’s originally a 6. You will love it!!!!
I’m self taught mostly! Mama bought me our first one in 2004. It had been damage pretty bad, so it was cheap. I rebuilt it, and enjoyed the process. Fast forward 20 years and now it’s our business!!!!!
laughing the power company had me in court for having windmills on my properties they had the right just to make the power they said to the judge taken 3 days of this carp for them some greedy landowner jacked up the rent on their coal power plant on her property to I ask the stupidest question dow the power company own the sun wind and any body of water they did say NO to this the judge ruled that i could keep my windmills as to the noise complaints ask for the neighbours who complained I don't have any neighbours within 50 miles of me keep quiet for a long time then told the judge was an eye sore to the communication tower wind turbines solar power nuclear power plants are eyes sore to they keep quiet i want to be left alone on the 175-year family farm transmission tower they want to be built on my land they did have land for that but the people did not want it in ther backs yard but 80 years that land was for that propose was not anyone living around the land too why would i have it in my land they don't want to pay for the land they needing to have well the greedy land owner of was the greedy power company they used their property the paying me millions of dollar them i am still off-grid to
You are the only windmills I have seen, so you are the only professional windmills I have seen. Must be doing it right.😊
Hahaha yep! Eh there are a handful of us in the country, it is a dying breed tho. Thank you for watching us!!!!!!!
Considering that it’s just or your wife setting up and filming the videos, they are as good as if you had an operator running it. GREAT JOB!
Thank you!!! Yep it’s just us, still learning too. We hope to get better every time! Thank you again!
Puddin said you were a real nice guy and that I should subscribe. So here I am , a new viewer. 👍
Awesomeness! Thank you very much, he is nicer tho hahahah!
your channel has given me some vauable insight thank you.
You are welcome! Please stick around!!!!!!
Puddin sent me, I had never seen this done before and I enjoyed watching it. Excellent job on the video.
Thank you! I’m still learning so hoping to just keep getting better!
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Would be cool to see it spin that close up. I am building a mini 32" and trying to make
it look some what close. This was very helpful in my build and enjoying watching since it pouring down rain and don't want to watch tv
Haha awesome!!! Wish it was raining here!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck on your build!!!!
Had to come see after Pudding sent me
Thank you!!!! I’m glad he sent you our way!!!!
Hi! Puddin sent me! God Bless America!
Man thank you! His bell America my friend! Thank you for subscribing!
I enjoyed watching the build.
Thank you! There will be more, and better ones as I’m finally getting used to the camera! Thank you again!!!!!
Subbed per the Pott County Legend.
Yeehaw thank you!!!!
puddin sent me over to check out your channel and i'm glad I did , very interesting . I subscribed.
Thank you so much Sir!! I hope you like it! We’re trying to get better for sure!! Have a great day!
Puddin sent me. Good stuff but not windy enough in Tennessee. :) Subscribed
Thank you! I figured it would be but now that you mention it, I don’t remember seeing any there! Thanks for subscribing!
You do a good job of explaining wish I had known that back in 90’s when I started working on those old heads , just had to figure it out for myself back then in the day . Good job
Thank you sooooo much for the comment! I love teaching and hope somebody gets something helpful of of these videos! Have a great day!!!!
You can see they are built for the wind. That thing wants to take right off while you’re working on it. I love windmills. I have always liked them even when I was a little girl. I remember the windmill that my great grandfather had on his farm. I was fascinated with it, but I never understood how they worked. Thank you so much for having this channel because it’s helping me understand more about how water can be pumped with windmills. What a great idea for people who want to live off grid.
Oh yeah! They know what they want to be doing! Most of the time we’re fighting the wind, until it’s time to watch it make water at the end of the days labor, then it completely stops blowing! Thank you for watching!
No algorithm sent me here but a pott county legend recommended you nuff said
Woohoo man that’s awesome, I’m glad you watched ole Puddin and heard the call to help!!!!
so 9+ hours later, you went from 70is subs to over 2k. the power of youtube. good luck man
Yes it’s amazing! Thank you sir!!!!!!
love it man, but i do have 2 words, Tool Belt. it will save your back and lost tools.
Haha yes sir! Mama has mentioned that!!!!!! Thank you so much for watching!!!!!
Some crazy tatooed guy that dreams about mini trucks said i should stop by...pretty interesting
Hahah ole Puddin! Man I’m glad you did! He likes what we do and figures other people would too! Thank you for watching!!!!!
Puddin’s a real one and I hope it works out the way you want wishing you luck 👍
Yes he is! He has done me so good with this kind gesture. Thank you for subscribing!
Your welcome u deserve it
Great video, nice to see a new one assembled. I was wondering why when you installed a rebuilt one, it wasn't cleaned and painted unless they wanted to keep it old looking?
Have a great day
Good question. People want to keep the old look 107% of the time. Thank you!
Sometimes when you get your new parts from the factory tha1/4” rod has the wrong angle bent on the ends and you can open the bend a little that will help you with the furl to fit better in my experience maybe you can try that or not
That might keep you from using the old parts and is a lot faster
Sweet info! Thank you! I contacted Aermotor and they had a new mold and the casting was actually about 3/4” out of whack. Never fails!
Another great lesson. Keep them coming!
Thank you Ma’am!
It is called a aliment punch, counter sink where the rod goes in should let it work.
That’s it! Yep, so I sent back the bad one, it actually was a bad one, that had all kinds of issues, my good luck is the only reason it made it to me! Haha. Thank you for watching!!!!!
Puddin and sent me over🎉 Wind Mills are cool.I'm interested in finding out what your contents about de generate electrical power with them as well.As pump water❤
ps I liked,
subscribed,
commented,
and shared.🎉
Haha you’re the best! They can’t generate electricity, yet………but. Thank you for watching and subscribing!!!
@@OkieWindmiller Can you just hook up a police or something in a belt to a generator an electric mean it's basically a electric windmill or could be couldn't it
You would think, but people have attempted it, and at one time, Aermotor had one out, in the days of the early electric, but due to the blade design, the didn’t work well. For some reason, wind turbines all have 2 or 3 blades, probably for slipstream aerodynamics or something……..
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Hello there! Yes he does, and so do I now!!! Thank you!
So without getting into too much detail or exact figures which I'm sure that each job pays different but what is the average job pay ballpark and what was the most expensive job you have ever done? Also do you do land survey for installation or is that already done by the time you get onto a job? Again I'm gonna ask a million questions about something so there's that! And when why how and who got you into doing this type of work?? Oh and if you need containers for storage I know someone in OK that can do that for you. And he will deliver and I trust him known him for years so I stand by what he does and sells. Just a thought and quick sales pitch hahahaha 😂😂😂 definitely enjoy the content
Awesome thank you for watching! So average would have to be probably 1-2 thousand. We do so many yearly services that are $110 so that would throw the calculation funny. Highest was around 30K, but that was a huge job. Not a lot of money in this field for the amount of labor.
We don’t land survey in terms of utilities/buried stuff, that’s up to the customer. Thank you for the questions and I hope these help!
I got into it myself, part time back in 2004 when mama bought me my first windmill. It had been destroyed and I had to rebuild it. I did it as a side business until Nov 2022 when I left my full time to do this full time!
I particularly enjoyed the comment about getting defective components and having to scrounge a similar (identical?) one from 100 years ago!! Wouldn't life be grand if manufacturers didn't redesign their products every five years? I was hoping to learn more about the mechanism that folds the tail and locks the wheel. Is that the only way to prevent these windmills from being damaged during high wind? That must be terribly inconvenient if a farmer/rancher has 6-8 of these rigs and a storm is coming in fast. What happens if they're not locked down during a 70 mph storm?
Howdy! Thank you! Yep, it’s sad. I called them and they did say they had just gotten a new mold for the part. Never fails.
I will do better at trying to be more complete when making the videos.
It’s hard to know as I’m filming to know what to put in it or not. We’re new and getting better, I hope. 🤞🏻
So I service large ranches that have 20 plus windmills and that’s part of it. Most do take the risk of leaving it open all the time, some are very on top of protecting their investment. I do set the spring tension so that it’s safer. Stick around and I will do a full on go-over on the windmill design and features. Thank you again sir!!!!!
@@OkieWindmiller Looking forward to a short tutorial on how they work and how to operate and maintain them (even though I'll never own one). I retired to North Texas (east of Dallas) and discovered the area is plagued by flood and drought -- sometimes in the same year. I'd like to have a well with a windmill but there's no water here.
So the water is deep? I always thought north Texas was over a pretty good aquifer. There are a lot of windmills there.
@@OkieWindmiller Not so! The history of N. Tx water is full of problems. The native americans who lived here first warned the white settlers to stay away from the area because of unpredictable rainfall and river flow. They didn't listen and built Ft Worth and Dallas. Residents have suffered drought and flood ever since. Small towns that depended on wells quickly outgrew their water supply after WW2 and started building lakes to store water.
Wow! That’s crazy!
Hi from puddins!
Howdy!!!
Just visiting, via Puddin'. I scrolled back to this, so maybe now is different, but I will be visiting again. I hope you are doing something different with fast forward, as the voice speed up was annoying. On that subject, later you brought in music, but I think your whistling was NOT annoying. Maybe you could record some of that, for fast forwarding, become your signature without any copywrite issues. And I feel you, noise at work is life, but the tinny, banging stuff is not ideal for people kicking back and watching after work. Maybe mute that a bit!
Thank you so much! Yes, I’m still learning this software, and it sounds totally different on the computer, then so much different on TV. I have noticed the same thing! I will do exactly as you ask. Thank you!!!!!!!
I thought about putting up a windmill on the well by my house.. until I saw the PRICE!
Oh yes, they have gotten crazy. Used ones can be just as expensive as a new one, especially if they have any patina at all!!!
Just trying to work out brake you got over centre lever is that what fixes brake
Yep, so I sent that lever back to Aermotor and they said it somehow was out of the scrap pile. It was a bad casting along with misdrillled holes! Crazy luck of mine!
i have an 5ft aeromotor mill that i would like to put up.
Do it!!!! It might be a 6’ tho. That’s the smallest they made, unless it’s been altered, which I have seen. I’d it has an X on the gearbox, that’s originally a 6. You will love it!!!!
How did you learn how to work on windmills?
I’m self taught mostly! Mama bought me our first one in 2004. It had been damage pretty bad, so it was cheap. I rebuilt it, and enjoyed the process. Fast forward 20 years and now it’s our business!!!!!
laughing the power company had me in court for having windmills on my properties they had the right just to make the power they said to the judge taken 3 days of this carp for them some greedy landowner jacked up the rent on their coal power plant on her property to I ask the stupidest question dow the power company own the sun wind and any body of water
they did say NO to this the judge ruled that i could keep my windmills as to the noise complaints ask for the neighbours who complained I don't have any neighbours within 50 miles of me keep quiet for a long time then told the judge was an eye sore to the communication tower wind turbines solar power nuclear power plants are eyes sore to they keep quiet i want to be left alone on the 175-year family farm
transmission tower they want to be built on my land they did have land for that but the people did not want it in ther backs yard but 80 years that land was for that propose was not anyone living around the land too why would i have it in my land they don't want to pay for the land they needing to have well the greedy land owner of was the greedy power company they used their property the paying me millions of dollar them
i am still off-grid to
Power companies have too much power for sure! I think you along with everyone should have a windmill!!!! Thank you for watching!!!!!!