In this article it is a question of construction in one of villages of the Kursk region of Russia of a windmill. The founder her handyman machine operator with an inventive vein. Collected a mill from old details of cars, combines and tractors.
Six blades catch a wind of any direction – the mill goes around. On a mill grain turns into a flour – a rough or fine crushing.
What for a fantastic image?! In a clean floor, on gold zhnive there was goodness knows where from a brand new windmill with six motionless blades.
Water, windmills – flour-grinding, krupomolny from time immemorial fed Russia. While little by little didn’t die under the pressure of mills electric – powerful, high-production.
But here in Big Annenkovo’s village of the Fetyazhsky region of Kursk area again there was a new wind wonderful mill. The author, the founder and her owner – Sergey Aleksandrovich Konev. The head of administration – the former chief engineer of the died collective farm with pleasure extols the machine operator, her founder: Great worker. As well as all in its sort. Master! He also "composed" this here a mill. Purely for economic needs built an izba on kury legs. That millstones on free worked twist – a wind – gratuitous, free, instead of on electricity promptly growing in the price.
The handyman machine operator with an inventive vein didn’t need to calculate special work wind-driven generator parameters, having drawn its "portrait" on a Whatman paper (both in a profile, and in a fullface). Also started to collect on the former mekhanizatorsky camps, on own farmstead of a detail of old cars, combines and tractors. And to put, equip the winged brothers, sons helped.
Five years by fits between stradny affairs he made a mill. The top stone – factory manufacturing, and bottom – cut out from strong rocky breed.
Six blades when will dress them in canvas, form a sail in 18 meters. They catch a wind of any direction – the mill goes around. For one turn of wings the top stone does six turns, turning grain into a flour – a rough or soft grinding. It as it to adjust.
In a mill there is a rotary steering wheel – adapted for this purpose a wheel from written-off collective-farm "ZIL". At rotation of its blade catch a wind and recover millstones, from a ladle on a trench wheat flour flows in a wooden chest.
Grain falls upward the conveyor. The crane is above fixed. It lifts stones when will come to forge time them.
Here such handymen as Sergey Konev, always please people with the inventions and innovations, they for many years remain in kind memory of fellows villager, and memory of them passes from father to son.
(On newspaper materials Rural life).