Windmills pump water up from underground streams or aquifers throughout the high plains region. In this case, the water was at 220ft but can be anywhere between 80ft and 2000ft.The average cow will consume at least 15 gallons of water per day - hence the need for windmills on ranches which otherwise receive very little rain.
So, if a windmill breaks for any reason its a pretty big deal. This one had stopped pumping so between the 3 of us, a pick-up truck, a pulley and cable, a few wrenches and clamps and a tub of waggonwheel grease we managed to drag 220ft of pipe out of the ground...
....and we were relieved to find that there was actually still water down there -plenty of it!...
...the problem was a small bearing the size of a gobstopper which had jammed, so we replaced it and sunk the 220ft of pipe again...
...and hey presto! Water in the tank -Phew!!
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