How to Build Homesteading Functional Windmill for Pumping Water do it yourself project was designed to introduce homesteading readers to a way to build a fully working windmill that bring water up from a well within reach to be used.
This Do It Yourself project was shared in hopes to help other get an understanding of how beneficial windmills can be when there is little to no electricity available. The author begins with a brief history of how windmills were first discovered back in the Middle Ages and how they are actually still in use in many different parts of the world.
Ever since the Middle Ages windmills have been used for pumping water from a number of different sources to ensure that there was enough water for drinking, washing and growing food. Even today, there are remote parts of the world that still do rely on the use of giant windmills to move large quantities of fresh groundwater.
