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rustymilltree
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Joined: 29/10/2025
Location: Australia
Posts: 1

Posted: 03:57am 31 Oct 2025

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Hello to everyone in the Forum. I wanted an opportunity to say that there is nothing like being attached to the ground! I am really appreciative of having grown up in a rural setting, where my wonderful father taught me so many things, for which I am eternally grateful. My parents built a home when I was 20. It was a beautiful block with an incredible view. It had a steep hill behind the house site, perfect for a water tank and pressure fed water to the house. And what did my father do? He scrounged around the local farming community until he found a windmill he could purchase and install on the block. Dad arranged for the water runoff from the house roof to flow down into a tank. From here, he pumped water up to the top tank by windmill. He also fitted an electric pump for the days when there was no wind or the wind was like a gale force. And we had some ferocious winds where the old windmill had to be kept anchored. But all in all to have had that experience and see this in operation was just divine. I wonder where we are headed with the new? It all seems to be so costly and many Technologies seem to vanish even before they are started! I will be staying with my feet firmly on the ground! Where I have been for the last 67 years. Warmly, rustymilltree.
Edited 2025-10-31 13:57 by rustymilltree

Revlac

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Joined: 31/12/2016
Location: Australia
Posts: 1192

Posted: 09:29am 31 Oct 2025

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Hi, Welcome to the Forum, I have an old Windmill in the shed that is half restored, still need to do the tower.

Also have gravity feed for house water and garden water also, Had a few power outages a long time ago when we had to put up with unreliable grid power,thus prompted the gravity fed water supply.

there are still quite a few windmills around on farms even though most are no longer maintained or used.

Cheers Aaron
Off The Grid

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