Andy rigged up a platform for us to assemble the Aermoter head and get it ready for the next step of placing it on the tower. It is actually kind of a neat display so it is too bad that we have to put it up on the tower. To stand next to the blades you kind of feel pretty small. The other thing that we have been marveling at is the amount of engineering that went into the design of the windmill head. This thing was made long before there were tools like CAD (computer aided drawing) to see it before building it. There isn't a wasted movement in the design. When you furl the tail it also activates the braking mechanism.
We hope to complete the windmill project in the next couple of weeks. The hurdle right now is a union strike that is going on in Chicago. To raise the head we need a crane and in this town that is run by a heavy equipment operator and that is union.
