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Building a Timbered Windmill:
Dispatches from the Frontier

Photos and text by Joel McCarty

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May 31 Report
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June 1 Report
June 2 Report
Final Report

Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Kendallville, Indiana

Indiana

Windmills
Land of windmills.

Jim, Nancy

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Kricker
Jim Kricker.

Nancy
Nancy Bernstein.

Crocco

Crocco


David Crocco (Ridgewood, NJ) in solitary splendor fitting the gudgeon for the tail bearing on the wind shaft, the principal rotating timber. Dreaming Creek had roughed out this piece, but apparently stopped at a hint of metal deep inside. David discovered some barbed wire way down deep with his edge tools.

Al A.
Al Anderson.

Leon
Leon Buckwalter.

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