The pump installer toppled the old windmill in about an hour, first climbing up the wobbly 27-foot tower to stop the broken mill's whirling blade and then pulling the underground pipe to make way for ...
Marton said windmill repair workers are hard to find and maintenance costs are expensive. "If you look at the average age of ranchers in Wyoming, they're all getting to be about my age or older — they ...
The director of the 1848 Danish Windmill in Elk Horn says they’ve started a fundraising campaign to raise money for repairs. Director Shaun Sayres says they need to repair the windmill’s windshaft and ...
"We've been standing on the sidelines now for quite some time watching wind mills go up in West Texas," Calhoun said. "Now we are diversifying into the emerging wind energy business from the more ...
The 75-year-old windmill beside the Intracoastal Waterway no longer produces energy. But that doesn't mean the Dutch-style icon in James Island's Riverland Terrace can't still produce excitement. The ...
The best Butch Whitaker can pinpoint it, his dad started this windmill repair business in the double-whammy throes of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. The 1930s weren't the ideal time for a ...
A Fenner windmill will be featured on the National Geographic Channel. Crews from the network's "World's Toughest Fixes" program visited the top of the Bellinger Road hill this week to film blade ...
ODESSA -- Their towers rise from the ground, their silhouettes a nostalgic reminder of America's pioneer past. But look closer and see that, constant as the blowing wind, the wheels of West Texas ...