I’ve been helping friends clean up an off-grid hoarder property after beloved uncle Dave passed. This behemoth was headed for scrap but I couldn’t let it die! So I hauled it home, where it has been sitting for six months now… too cool to get rid of, but so far, I haven’t been able to dream up a way to use it. It wasn’t connected to anything at uncle Dave’s, but I figured he was intending to harness up some wind power.
I live very rural and have acreage, so I can do pretty much anything without having to worry about neighbors or code. We have a good well and pump, power supply to every building, etc. so no real “need” for it to provide any sort of functional service for us. But, it’s such an unusual piece of very ordinary machinery, that I’d like to have it do something – even if only inspires conversation. Lol
Any ideas? Creative or wildly unconventional is a plus!
by Rock-n-Horse
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Convert to a windmill
Regulate a green house
Cool your PC with it.
Make a turbo for a 4 cyl honda
Keep it, because no matter who else likes you, that is your biggest fan.
Would make a cool piece to add to the ambiance of a nightclub.
A ceiling fan to make anyone under it nervous…
Turn it on and make noises into it obviously
Film a sequel to “Flashdance”??
Start an OF account
Exhaust fan for chicken coop
Okay, here’s what you’re gonna wanna do:
You’re gonna start by building a new barn. Doesn’t matter if you have 1 (or more) already, safe to assume that they’re all being used in some sort of capacity.
This new barn is going to be decked out as a Man Cave. Electrical, some plumbing, the works. And this behemoth of a fan is gonna be placed dead centre against the back wall as a centrepiece. All other decorations must revolve around this fan
[Get a very large pug and fumigate your enemies? ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvhqvDo5qs)
Keep😔
Attach it to your mad max thunderdome defense mobile, duh.
Play it Motley Crue or Black Sabbath. It’s obviously a huge fan of heavy metal.
You could make a badass herb/grain drying station – mount it horizontally with some mesh racks and it’ll dry your harvest in no tme.
Oh man! I’m a fan collector, like old fans but mostly small, desk sized. I’ll also buy (at reasonable price) fan blades or propellers, or anything of that shape. I love this a lot!
I’m building Mr. Discopants. It will be a poorly constructed, as I learn to weld and metalwork, a big statue thing, probably about 12 to 15 feet tall. The shinyest legs you can imagine, almost mirrors. This fan would make such a beautiful head, especially if it still spins. I can’t imagine. I’m still figuring out what the torso and arms will be but this is a multi-year project. All I know so far is that I think I want his fingers to be wind chimes. Fudge, as I look at it, it’d be even better as a torso!
Boy, so good! Now I’ll have to keep an eye out for big industrial fan like this.
Do you grow food and does it ever frost/freeze? That could help the air move on frost nights and save the crops.
Well. get a big automotive alternator and swap it for the motor, generate electricity on those cloudy but windy days
Yard art.
Blow yourself? I just couldn’t help it.
Just wanted to say, huge fan.
Final Destination Halloween scene..
Wind mill
Maybe ask r/watercooling
You could push the resistance leader into it.
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God I hope someone gets this reference, I would be so happy.
Build a windmill, connect a pump rod. Pump water or turn a generator.
Throw the resistance leader into it. He is a traitor and a scoundrel.
Something a bond villain would do.
Off grid hoarding is passed on this way. When one hoarder dies, another takes his place. Uncle Dave chose you. Embrace your new destiny.
Windmill?
Connect a small block V8 to it and put it in your back yard.
It looks hot there.