Ongoing Projects at 2Step2

 

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This is the gazebo!
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Check out the flagstone sidewalk.
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Sidewalk to picnic area
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Picnic area
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The water pumping windmill in back!
Gazebo 4.JPG (13704 bytes)The stained glass butterflies had to be removed due to wood damage!
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Beautiful Stained glass butterflies hanging in dinning room now!
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One on the right is also in my house now!
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Nice, weather-proof wood had to be added to top of Gebo!
Project 1.JPG (62521 bytes)  This is the top half of the first tower.  (on Christmas Day 2007- check out the snow.)  This tower proved to be too flimsy, and we had to build a new, heavier tower and discard this one. Windmill.JPG (95706 bytes) New tower almost complete.  Tower when complete, by itself and without the mill, weighs in at over 2300 lbs. Windmill 1.JPG (92975 bytes)Tower, deck, and concrete counterweight complete.  Working on mill.
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Part of the blade pullout system that causes the windmill blades to go into a tunnel shape.
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Jig to allow cutting the very complex cuts on the wood braces for each blade.
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Blade panels finished
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Proud Louis!
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Look at that big baby!
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Hurray its finished!
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Moving the Tower to its new location
Windmill June 02.JPG (28637 bytes)Really heavy Joe? Windmill July 01.JPG (28222 bytes)
Digging the Foundation
 

Video Clip of raising the windmill

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Raising the windmill
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Our windmill is UP!
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Windmill in the fog
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Windmill with Christmas lights