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One of the three windmills of the "Molendriegang" near Leidschendam in the Netherlands. The windmills are famous for their contribution to the reclamation of the lower parts of the country and date from the late 16 hundreds. I visited the windmills on an unusual warm day in the Netherlands and had they privilege of being on my own until sunset.
I had heard of this windmill through Wikipedia but there was no picture or history so I did not know what to expect. The weather was not very kind on this day, as in the morning the sky was very lack lustre grey and in the afternoon when we went back all the greyness had vanished to be replaced by a bright blue sky. I opted to drain the colours and give the picture a sense of time. Although the picture was taken in Copenhagen, the church in the background is a Swedish Orthodox Church.
the windmills are coming to our little corner of the world.. i think it's pretty cool. i guess there are supposed to be 20 bly the time they are done.. this is the first one..
fairfield NY
Bidston Hill is 100 acres (0.40 km2) of heathland and woodland that contains historic buildings and ancient rock carvings. It is located on the Wirral Peninsula, near the Birkenhead suburb of Bidston, in Merseyside, England. With a peak of 231 feet (70 m), Bidston Hill is one of the highest points on the Wirral. The land was part of Lord Vyner's estate and purchased by Birkenhead Corporation in 1894 for use by the public.
Bidston Windmill replaced a wooden mill that was destroyed by fire in 1791,and was used to grind wheat until about 1875. However it is believed that there has been a windmill on this site since 1596. After falling into disuse it was bought and restored in the mid 1890s .
This is right next to my sisters house in York, Its been renovated over a number of years, they are getting close to the finish line. Can you see the guy fitting the slats on the blades?
5 Sail windmills are very rare, only 4 or 5 in the whole of the uk!
www.holgatewindmill.org/restoration.htm this shows the process.
Oh yeah,,,,,the name of her street????? Windmill Rise :)
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The Woodmanse Steel windmills are probably the most common of the products from the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company that can trace their origins to the early history of this important windmill company at Freeport, Illinois. Introduced in the early 1890's, they remained on the market into the 1930's.
Harrison Woodmanse, the founder of the firm known as the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1836. There he grew up and attended school, leaving his home and settling at Freeport, Illinois in 1868. In that year he opened a "depot for the sale of agricultural implements," dealing heavily in the Marsh Harvester, seventeen hundred of which he sold in a period of six years. Using some of his profits, in 1872 he opened his own factory for the manufacture of farm implements, where he initiated the manufacture of a solid wheel wooden Woodmanse windmill which with modifications remained in production as late as 1930. Harrison Woodmanse operated his manufacturing business under his own name until the early 1880's, but by 1882 it had become the Woodmanse Wind Mill Company. The company kept this name until about 1885, when Woodmanse took a partner and the firm became the Woodmanse and Hewitt Manufacturing Company. Business continued growing for the Freeport manufacturer, with its windmills being sold farther and farther afield, even on the West coast as early as 1892. Then in either 1900 or 1901, the firm became the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company, the corporate title under which it continued to operate into the 1950's, when its manufacturing of windmills ceased. The first Woodmanse Steel windmills appeared on the market about 1892. The direct stroke pattern uses castings very similar to those on the earlier solid wheel wooden mills, while the back geared pattern differs considerably. The direct stroke Woodmanse Steel windmills, even though remaining on the market until 1930, today are comparatively rare. Much more common are the open back geared mills which currently are the mills most often seen in the field.
In the mid 1890's direct stroke Woodmanse Steel mills were made in 10', 12', 13', and 14' sizes while the back geared model was produced in 8' and 10' diameters. The Woodmanse firm also produced a special heavy duty mill introduced about 1895 and know as the Woodmanse Mogul. In the 1890's it was made in 8', 10', 12', and 14' sizes, but by the beginning of this century the 8' model had been dropped and a 16' size was added. By 1910, the Mogul had become the Woodmanse mill sold specifically for deep well pumping, or situations requiring large amounts of water. In 1920 its range of sizes included 10 1/2', 12 1/2', 14', and 16' sizes. The large size remaining on the market as late as 1938.
Both the Woodmanse Steel and the Woodmanse back geared mills remained on the market until 1930, when they were phased out of production.
Governing on all the Woodmanse Steel mills is on the same principal. The vane is set slightly to one side, causing the wheel to incline away from increasing wind. As this occurs, tension increases on a torsion governor spring mounted on the vane hinge, placing increased pressure to return the wheel to face the wind. When the mill governs out of the wind or when it is turned off from the ground a friction brake engages.
The wind wheel consists of curved galvanized steel blades attached with riveted steel clips to curved bar steel rims. The vane sheet is firmly attached to a two member angle steel vane stem which is mounted in a cast iron vane hinge at the head of the mill. The vane sheet bears the sole ornamentation on the mill, the black stenciled inscription of the manufacturer's name and location.
A surprising number of old Woodmanse Steel mills remain to be seen scattered about the plains and prairies. Introduced on March 1, 1923, the Woodmanse Oil Bath was the first self oiling windmill manufactured by the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company of Freeport, Illinois. The mills made with several mechanical modifications through the years, remained available into the 1950's, although their production was greatly restricted during the war years of the 1940's. Today the most common pattern of the mill is its back geared steel model. A number of variations are found in the back geared Woodmanse Oil Bath mills. The initial mills, termed Style E were produced from 1923 to 1926. These first mills were phased out of production in less than three years in favor of the Style G which was manufactured from 1926 to 1933, when a new Style GB was introduced. The Style GB with an altered vane and governor spring was made under contract by the Woodmanse Company, which distributed it as the New Eclipse during the 1930's. The GB pattern remained in production into the 1950's, but in July 1935 an additional Style J was placed on the market. The final new pattern available only in small diameter, is noted for having a steel hood with a curved profile instead of sharp rectangular hood used on the other Oil Bath mills.
The initial Style E back geared mills were made in 6', 8', and 10' diameters, but with their replacement by the Style G in 1926 a 12' size was added. All four sizes remained on the market until WWII.
The vane sheet bears the only ornamentation on the mill, the black stenciled words, "Woodmanse Oil Bath Wind Mill."
A rather ordinary record shot of the windmill, would love to go back and take it again just before dusk
nrhp # 79000075- Davidson Windmill is a historic windmill in Lakeside, Wisconsin, United States.[2]
The windmill was built in 1900 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Built by Finnish immigrant and homesteader, Jacob (Jaako Tapola) Davidson, the Davidson Windmill is one of a very few grist mills in the Midwest, and the only one in Wisconsin known to be of Finnish origin. It sits on a bluff overlooking the Amnicon River and served Old-Brule and Lakeside in the South Shore region from 1904 to 1926. Constructed of native materials, it was used for milling locally grown grains for both animal and human consumption.
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