One Saturday, the 23rd of April, 2005, a crew gathered at the McFarland Ranch to raise the restored windmill. This windmill is special and is called a Warrior Bonnet windmill. It was donated by the Kiwanis Club of Galt, CA.
The structure being assembled. The red thing is the very heavy cement counterweight.
The women do the heavy lifting
Moving it to the other side of the house for the lift.
Half way up
At the top and ready for mounting
It is in place
View from the top of the water tower of the windmill
This job was easy due to all of the volunteers, including 6 year old Chance, our supervisor