Like most windmills still around, it was electrified by a prior farm owner, with a motor installed on the pump down in the well to pull water from the ground. The Allens like old things ...

farmers used wind to pump water, grind grain and, to a small extent, generate power for self-sufficiency. Although most are no longer functional, old metal windmills still stand as quaint symbols of ...

As a young lad of five or six, it was my job to walk across the farm yard, take the wire holder off the wood lever, let it go and the fan blade would turn toward the wind and start pumping water ...

"Then other people said if you are looking for a windmill, I've got one. I've got one. I've got one. And it just kind of bundled up," Rodman said. Century-old farm relics once used to pump water ...

Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind ... to supply about 600 U.S. homes. Wind farms have tens and sometimes hundreds of these turbines ...

Holland Ridge Farms unveiled a working Dutch ... "It was a great, great experience." Dutch windmills are used traditionally used to pump water from fields, grind grain for flour or saw wood.