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A step back in time....
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:56 pm
by dgrapes59
If you like windmills or old machinery you will enjoy this:
http://netnebraska.org/media/media.php? ... 1718&low=0Pretty neat place, lost in time….
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:11 pm
by Barnyard
I was expecting to see an IH decal on that pith helmet sitting on the desk.
Great video David, thanks.
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:16 pm
by Mr E
David, that is awesome. Would be neat to be able to visit a place like that.
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:37 pm
by Winfield Dave
Mr E wrote:David, that is awesome. Would be neat to be able to visit a place like that.
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:43 am
by 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!
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:51 am
by Bob Perry
Thanks for posting a great video !!!
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:02 am
by Bill Hudson
David,
Awesome!!!! I'm ready to go take a look.
Bill
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:49 am
by RaymondDurban
Great video! I love stuff like this!! Hope they were able to get it open to the public.
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:15 am
by Barnyard
RaymondDurban wrote:Great video! I love stuff like this!! Hope they were able to get it open to the public.
http://kregelwindmillfactorymuseum.org
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:03 pm
by Bigdog
I could spend some time there!
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:12 pm
by Rodney51Cub
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:06 pm
by VinceD
I could get lost in a place like that. Thanks for sharing.
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:56 pm
by 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.
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:37 am
by HitNmiss1923
What a great place, amazing how it was left untouched for so long..
Re: A step back in time....
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:18 pm
by 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.