Windmills

Folks
Ah, the memories.
Southern Cross if that memory is correct.
My recently late father was never given to exaggeration.
But-He told tales though of grabbing the wheel and going for a few turns.
HTF did he get off though?
May have been just to shame me into getting some spine, as in later years he couldn't climb, and I sure didn't like going up that tower, whether in my youth or in later years.

Cheers

If the ridge on the tips are stepped then a punch and flange air operated tool will work.
About $90 online.
Cheers Steve

Here’s a ten foot wheel thirty foot tower I put up for a bloke at Montville up on the hills behind the Sunshine Coast didn’t really want the job but he wanted it done and was prepared to pay!!so I loaded up and had a few days overlooking the beach










Don’t know what my gross weight was (Ute with all the gear and six lengths of 1.5”pipe and 1/2” rods) hits the scales at 3.1 tonne without the trailer l can admit to that now I’ve stopped doing it

Bluey

Just as well I tied everything on
Bluey

Tired
My brother inlaw told me once about some blokes he worked with out at Roma who used to ride the wheel on 25 footers asked him if he had a go and he replied do I look that fn stupid . I said I’d rather not answer that

Cheers

My Dad was a sheet metal worker and he had a swage at home for putting those stiffening lines in the blade. Unfortunately without asking he dumped them (guillotine, swager, 3' hand rollers etc) off at a place at Northmead in Sydney before moving north. I would love to have that gear now but that is the way it goes.

Ha ha Bluey
My name's Willy, not Silly

They told me when I gave up fixing windmills there’d always be just one more so I thought why not put up a decent sized one
21foot wheel 45foot tower he was only putting it up for a garden ornament until his dam went dry then he decided he had better put a bore down and make it earn its keep

Hey Bluey, is that a Southern Cross windmill?

Hi Cobbadog
Yes Southern Cross R model RG the G denotes the size of the wheel
IZ A 6 foot
IZ b. 8 foot
IZ C. 10 foot
IZ D. 12 foot
IZ E. 14 foot
R F. 19 foot
R G. 21 foot
R. E. 25 foot

Cheers Bluey