A step back in time....

[dgrapes59]

If you like windmills or old machinery you will enjoy this:

http://netnebraska.org/media/media.php? ... 1718&low=0

Pretty neat place, lost in time….

[Barnyard]

I was expecting to see an IH decal on that pith helmet sitting on the desk. Great video David, thanks.

[Mr E]

David, that is awesome. Would be neat to be able to visit a place like that.

[Winfield Dave]

David, that is awesome. Would be neat to be able to visit a place like that.

[Gary Dotson]

That's really neat! It's hard to believe that the place has not been vandalized in all these years, I'm glad it wasn't! Sure would be neat to visit!

[Bob Perry]

Thanks for posting a great video !!!

[Bill Hudson]

David,

Awesome!!!! I'm ready to go take a look.

Bill

[RaymondDurban]

Great video! I love stuff like this!! Hope they were able to get it open to the public.

[Barnyard]

Great video! I love stuff like this!! Hope they were able to get it open to the public.

http://kregelwindmillfactorymuseum.org

[Bigdog]

I could spend some time there!

[Rodney51Cub]

Great video, here is a windmill I helped an uncle put up about 10 years ago.

Do not remember the size of the fan.

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I got to go to the top to unhook the crane, lucky me. I think that is why he wanted the help.

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He has added a water pump since this picture was taken.

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[VinceD]

I could get lost in a place like that. Thanks for sharing.

[dgrapes59]

Nebraska City isn’t too far off my beaten path when I go to Nebraska, I may have to take a field trip there and see if they will let me in.

RASS1cub,
That is a great looking windmill! It looks like need you to come visit my place in NE, I have a windmill tower I want to put up someday. A local farmer had it in the middle of a pasture that I pheasant hunted in for years; I always wandered by it to look at it. A few years ago when corn prices started jumping he was going to plow the pasture under, he said it had been pasture for over 40 years. I shot many pheasants in that field over the years. I asked him what he was going to do with it, he replied nothing. I offered to buy it and he sold it for estimated scrap prices. His son took it down with a bigger JD front end loader and moved it on a flatbed trailer to a field behind my place. The wheel was in bad shape so I have been keeping an eye out for one but so far no luck for what I consider a reasonable price. It was identified as a Dempster model 12A, it was their heavy duty long stroke mill with an 8 foot wheel. I think the tower is about 35 foot tall. It will just be for decoration, I have an old pump to put under it.

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Dempster Windmill

[HitNmiss1923]

What a great place, amazing how it was left untouched for so long..

[danovercash]

Caught an episode of "Postcards from Nebraska" about all the windmill manufacturing companies in NE. Maybe you can catch a rerun on RFD-TV.