Landscape with windmills is more familiar to us in the paintings of European masters of the art of the eighteenth-nineteenth century.
now working a lot of windmills can be seen only in the Netherlands.However, they're not grind the flour, though there are some.They pumping water from one channel to another.How it was arranged windmill?You can see it except in the Baltic States and the Netherlands itself.The first thing to do to make it works well - to catch the wind.To this end, its roof unfolds in the right direction with a special wheel and lever.The wheel was precisely due to the roof.When the roof reaches the desired position, the wheel stopper special chain.Then, a special brake released and the sails began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster.The shaft, which is attached to the wings, through the wooden gears transmit the rotation of the main vertical axis.
Application.
Next windmill device might be different.With the help of pumped water, squeezed oil from the seeds, even produced with the help of paper and sawn wood, and, of course, milled flour.Flour mill doing its work with the help of the same millstones.With the advent of steam and other engines, it can be said, has lost its significance for the industry.But nowadays, when people learn how to conserve energy and nature, windmill revived in a different capacity, as a cheap and environmentally friendly source of electricity.Hundreds of wind turbines, her great-grandchildren work in the Netherlands, the Netherlands and Germany.In the United States, Canada and Australia distant farms successfully use wind generators to produce electricity for the needs of home and farm.
decorative element.Its construction.
Today, the windmill has gained popularity as a decorative element of subsistence farming.Make it easy.This mill, with his hands gathered at the cottage or villa, will decorate any corner of the garden.Work begins with the manufacture of the foundation.Digs a hole to a depth of 70 cm and laid brick foundation.From 50x50 metal parts welded frame size 80h120h270.The frame is sheathed 40x40 timbers.You can sheathe clapboard structure on top.The frame is mounted on the foundation.The timber top cover protecting impregnation in several layers.Inside the housing is insulated with foam and plywood.Then the roof is done.On the roof rafters spreads continuous crate, which then takes cover with roofing material in two layers.On the roofing material is laid roofing material.Then he is going to the mechanism.Select and set shaft and two bearings.Gather blades of wooden planks with a cross section 20h40mm which are fastened by means of screws.The blades are mounted on the axle.The upper part of the foundation is also sheathed beam.The interior can be used for storage, such as garden tools.Thus, the windmill - and even necessary outbuildings.
