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Windmill Rebuilding Turns Into Career
Harry Rose Jr. is one of the few full-time windmill repairmen in North America. He buys, sells and repairs old windmills, giving a new lease on life to old relics.
He was working in a steel fabrication shop when his boss told him he was trying to buy a windmill. Rose figured there must be a market for them so he
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Windmill Rebuilding Turns Into Career ENERGY Wind Power 27-2-6 Harry Rose Jr. is one of the few full-time windmill repairmen in North America. He buys, sells and repairs old windmills, giving a new lease on life to old relics.
He was working in a steel fabrication shop when his boss told him he was trying to buy a windmill. Rose figured there must be a market for them so he went looking. He bought his first broken-down windmill for $15 after finding it half buried behind a hedgerow.
He began acquiring more broken-down windmills, teaching himself how to operate and repair them. In 1982, Rose was able to quit his day job and work full time, adding made-to-order windmill towers to his business. When repairing an old mill, if he can't find a replacement part, he simply makes whatever he needs.
The 65-year-old Rose rebuilds 20 or more old mills a year.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Rose Windmill Service, Box 284, Girard, Kansas 66743 (ph 800 339-4802 or 620 724-0083).
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