sally
11-19-2009, 05:37 PM
I found a picture of an interesting windmill to power a manual water well pump.
http://aces.nmsu.edu/ces/windmill/documents/Early%20Rangeland%20Partners%20Water%20and%20Wind( bw).pdf
Page 2 of the .pdf has a homemade windmill constructed from a barrel, wood poles, and what looks like an automobile rear axle. It powers a hand pump for a water well.
I've seen a wind turbine built using a barrel, but not one to power a water well pump.
We might be interested in building such a thing. And we could enclose the lower part to protect the pump from freezing.
I don't know how the speed could be governed, though, to keep it from spinning too fast.
http://aces.nmsu.edu/ces/windmill/documents/Early%20Rangeland%20Partners%20Water%20and%20Wind( bw).pdf
Page 2 of the .pdf has a homemade windmill constructed from a barrel, wood poles, and what looks like an automobile rear axle. It powers a hand pump for a water well.
I've seen a wind turbine built using a barrel, but not one to power a water well pump.
We might be interested in building such a thing. And we could enclose the lower part to protect the pump from freezing.
I don't know how the speed could be governed, though, to keep it from spinning too fast.