Sprouting Windmills

I mentioned a couple of posts ago that there was a new wind farm going in close to us. Boy, is there ever! We'd noticed a few sites where the windmills are going to be when we went out before, but we've been past there a couple times since and the dirt piles, access roads, and construction activity seems to be multiplying by the week. There are going to be dozens of the things in about a three by four mile swath of farmland and they're bringing in tons of material, and equipment to get it done. The boys and I went out again the other day to take a look.

This seems to be the steel support cage that is cast into a large concrete block which, I assume, forms the base for the tower.

The finished base. I don't know how deep the base block is sunk into the ground, but haven't seen anything yet that suggests it's much deeper than what is visible here. That doesn't seem quite right, knowing how tall the tower is going to be.

Just for a rough perspective, we met a couple of semis last weekend that were carrying the generator houses that sit on top of the windmills. We had to get off the road. The wide angle here doesn't quite convey the size of the generators, but they were big! I can't wait to see one of these hoisted a couple hundred feet off the ground.