Posted by nebraska cowman on November 15, 2014 at 14:16:18 from (66.252.116.102):
In Reply to: Re: What the heck is a posted by 2underage on November 15, 2014 at 13:49:29:
You should know better than that. Especially in deep wells. The weight of the rods in the pipe are plenty heavy all by themselves. In fact at one time it was common to find wooden rods in wells as they tended to float in the water and hence not be so heavy to lift. And you are wrong on the gearing. A windmill is direct geared to the wheel and yes it does force pressure down. If something happens like the rods freezing in the pipe so they can not go down and the windmill tries to run then something either has to bend or break. At one time all windmill lift rods were wood as a safety but late years we tend to use a piece of log chain as a safety.
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