The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

Nicely enough we were at my wife's friends house today, whom I hope become my friends. They're a nice couple. Their next door neighbor has an old farm mill, a water pumper out in the back yard. It's now surrounded by tall trees, and has a couple of bent vanes. The pumper shaft is gone, and I think the wellhead may be capped off. I asked if they might know of any stories about it, but the neighbors apparently bought the house with the mill in that condition. The husband did tell me that the thing sometimes turns in heavy winds and ticks against the tree branches brushing against it. A shame it's let go, but so many are now. It used to be used to fill a small man-made pond next to it.