Sept 1st Recently began watching your channel repairing windmills-intriguing to me. Now retired a year ago from my business preparing residential rental housing for “the next tenant”. Had a girlfriend from Midwest City, sold a car (then repossessed it) to a guy in Edmond, sister to U of Tulsa and Tulsa Clge of Med & Surgery, managed offices in Tulsa…ergo I KNOW to never say anything bad about Indians while in Oklahoma! You’re my first experience with learning windmills. Avidly watching & listening to you & Mama on every podcast. John E “Jack” Nicholson Richardson, TX
On another windmill I’d paint the vanes white, with the center “hubcap” brown so that the windmill resembles a daisy. My wife loves flowers and I’d want to show her how much I care for her her and her femininity!
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 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!
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
Then a pink colored windmill with pink vanes. Then a blue colored windmill and so on, and so on…She have her own garden patch that would tickle her heart every time she pulled into the driveway.
@@OkieWindmiller Women think differently than we do. While we appreciate simplicity and order, they seek a connection to nature as their guiding light. These were ideas for you to think about, nothing else but reflections of an old man who made many errors in judgement along the way. I was a self centered, head strong (read stubborn) persuer of adventure bent on accumulating experiencing whatever I could both here and abroad. I have those memories yet, I’d trade them all for what you have now. A loving wife, two children (or more?) and respect from many men!
Man that’s wisdom there! Thank you! Yes, I’m a lucky man. 2 kids, hard working and loving wife and best friend. I indulge in every minute spent. Thank you for reminding me of how good I have it!!!!! 😀.
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
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
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!!!!!
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!!!!!!!
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!
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……..
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.
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’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!!!!!
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!!!!
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
