Building a Windmill Tower and Digging a Water Well

[BHD]

MORAWA DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM - NEW ZEALAND WINDMILL MANUFACTURERS

BOOTH - MACDONALD & Co Ltd.
Formerly George Booth & Sons. Operated the Carlyle Implement & Iron Works, also known as the Carlyle Implement Works. Operational from 1882 - c1955. The address in 1885 is shown as 218 Tuam Street, Christchurch. In 1900 this company were supplying the American made FLINT & WALLING STEEL STAR windmills. - See - FLINT & WALLING in the Australian Section (F-I) for Model details.
匹ARLYLE IRON WINDMILL Circa 1883 - 1893. Bears a strong resemblence to the American made MAST FOOS IRON TURBINE windmill of the same period and uses advertising illustrations used by MAST FOOS. It won the first prize at the Sydney Centennial Show. Exported to Australia [1888]. This was a direct action available in wind wheel sizes from 6 to 14 ft.
百ELF OILER WINDMILL One of the earliest oil bath windmills anywhere. The design was patented in 1911 by Charles WHITAKER, an engineer employed by BOOTH - McDONALD. It was single geared and operated the pump rod by linkages.
百TEEL STAR WINDMILL See - (F-I) FLINT AND WALLING.
謬E ANGI WINDMILL On display at the 1891 & 1894 Otago A & P Society Annual Show. The Te Angi windmill and pump was especially designed for light winds and was described as being of light and graceful appearance. Back geared. A second hand example of this mill in good working order was offered by S. L. Humphries & Co. in 1905.
謬ITAN WINDMILL A small open type direct acting windmill. Some of the fans were as small as 4 foot. It employed a counterweight.
必IWI WINDMILL Invented and patented by Mr H. Grieg, a travelling representative for Booth & McDonald & Co. The Kiwi windmill and pump was displayed at both the Egmont and Wellington A & P Association Shows in November 1895, and the Invercargill, Wanganui and Wellington A & P Association Shows in November 1896. It was a light running, self regulating and inexpensive windmill.

a Little on the history of the booth company, looks like they imported flint and walling mills for a time, I have a old Flit and Walling Farbury 33 it was made during the depression and only had one gear in it( I suppose to cut costs), any way I would like to restore it for display, I tried to up load a flint and walling catalog with some pictures of there steel towers, but it was to large for the settings,

I really could find very little on the booth windmills, (about what year is your manufacture date, are parts available for it).

 

[AxelGrease]

I am familiar with the information that you have posted. But thankyou.
You are quite correct - there doesn't seem to be a lot of information to be had regarding Booth-MacDonald windmills.
Having said that, however, there are still quite a number of them in existence (in NZ) - for those who know what they look like.
Prior to 1900, almost all mills were imported from the US. And although the great majority of these have long since disappeared, there are still quite a few vintage models available.
Here is one (a Stover) currently up for sale here. This particular one has been relisted and could've been bought a couple of weeks ago for US$300.
How does this compare to what they'd fetch in the States?
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I really cannot accurately date the Booth mill I have in my possession, other than to assume that it was manufactured some time between 1911 - when they secured the patent (and that might not have been worldwide) and the 1950's, when they ceased manufacturing them.
I realise that it's only of academic interest, but I would think that the market would be too small for any likelihood of spare parts being readily available.
Ed

 

[BHD]

the prices for used mills range from scrap iron price to thousands,

I bought the 12 foot in 2000 for $500, with tower, I bought a good Aermotor ,8 foot in good condition no tower, (tower was tore up) some bent sales, for scrap iron price, the other day, The Farbury my son found in a scrap iron pile, and gave it to me.

I keep my eye open and look for them some,

a lot of the value of them is what either some one wants to part with it or what some one is willing to pay to get it.

even many ranchers are going to solar panels and small pumps, powered by the panels, so windmills are far and few even in the west but still used some if power is not available, (I have power but still use the mills),