The landscape with windmills is more familiar to us on the canvases of European artists of the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries.
Now many working windmills can only be seen in the Netherlands. True, they do not grind flour there, although there are some. They pump water from one channel to another. How was the windmill arranged? You can only see this in the Baltic states and the Netherlands themselves. The first thing to do to make it work well is to catch the wind. To do this, its roof was deployed in the right direction using a special wheel and lever. The wheel was just connected with the roof. When the roof reached the desired position, the wheel was locked with a special chain. Then they released a special brake, and the wings of the mill began to rotate, at first slowly, and then faster and faster. The shaft on which the wings were mounted through the wooden
gears transmitted rotation to the main vertical axis.
Application.
Further, the device of the windmill could be different. With its help, water was pumped out, oil was squeezed out of the seeds, they even made paper and sawed wood, and, of course, they ground the flour. The flour mill did its work with the help of the same stone millstones. With the advent of steam and other types of engines, it can be said to have lost its significance for industry. But nowadays, when people learn to save energy and nature, the windmill has revived in a different capacity, as a cheap and environmentally friendly source of electricity. Hundreds of windmills, her great-grandchildren, work in Holland, the Netherlands and Germany. In the United States, Canada, and Australia, remote farms have successfully used wind generators to generate electricity for home and farm use.
Decorative element. Its construction.
Today, a windmill has gained popularity as a decorative element of a household farm. Make it easy. Such a mill, assembled near the country house or cottage, will decorate any corner of the garden. Work begins with the manufacture of the foundation. Digging a hole to a depth of 70 cm, and laying a brick foundation. From metal corners 50x50, the frame is welded in size 80x120x270. The frame is sheathed with a 40x40 bar. It is possible to sheathe the structure from above with lining. The frame is installed on the foundation. The wood on top is covered with protective impregnation in several layers. Inside the case is insulated with polystyrene and plywood. Next is the roof. A continuous lath is laid on the roof rafters, which is then covered in two layers of roofing material. Roofing material is laid on the roofing material. Then the mechanism is assembled. An axis and two bearings are selected and installed. Blades are assembled from wooden planks with a section of 20x40 mm, which are fastened with self-tapping screws. The blades are mounted on the axis. The upper part of the foundation is also sheathed with timber. The interior can be used for storage, for example, garden equipment. Thus, a windmill is also a necessary outbuilding.