Anybody know what this is?
 

https://i.imgur.com/WjwjMj1.jpg Seen in a cow pasture up on the Lincolnshire Wolds yesterday


https://i.imgur.com/FUNbTME.jpg

(Above) This poorer photo shows, from a different angle, two 'prongs' which extend from the machinery on top. Do they rotate this pivoted top in the wind? There's a rod extends down to the ground inside... almost like a drilling rig

https://i.imgur.com/RybDkVT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Rn5O3q3.jpg

And these close-up views.... is that maybe an air-raid siren up there? I've no idea what this rusty tower is or was, but it looks like some kind of wartime artefact to me... is it an early wind power generator?

It looks like an old windmill for pumping water. Likely for cows. The blades were probably wood and have fallen off.

Or.....it could be an alien homing device. Don't touch it. :D

The Trump tower? :hmmm:

Does not look like it's one of the Chain home radar masts, or of the Stenigot early warning system. I guess it is civilian, maybe as ucrank said, a water pumping tower?

Well it's chalk upland here... so there would very likely be underground springs and streams just below the surface. Thanks, Marcel... I guessed it would turn out to be something mundane... unless... :haha:

Something used to confound squirrels?...














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The two horizontal prongs were likely mounts for a rudder of sorts, for holding the upper pivoting assembly into wind. So if one was able to look into that box of tricks, it'd house a crude right-angle drive.

Seems to be this one(?)

Windpump:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1951168

And apparently it's not that hard. :O:

(Ha ha, Marcel :))

@ Catfish. Yes that's where we were... Thoresby wood... and that is of course the very same structure as in my photographs. They were shooting ducks when we got there, so I didn't fancy getting any closer in case they decided to have a pop at me instead. I wonder whether there are many more of these things around? Well done, mate :yep::salute:

As u-crank said, an old windmill for pumping water up from the bore, the top part is the gearbox that pulls the center shaft up and down. These are widely used in Australia though getting replaced slowly by solar panels driving electric pumps.:yep:

They must be very unusual in the UK... I've lived all my life in the countryside on clay and silt and never seen one except in movies. Neither has Moira, and she grew up on the North Downs chalkland. Thanks, guys

What - they shoot ducks and even squirrels?!? :o
I call my old gang and then we make these long pigs totally ready... :03:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_BGKyAKigs


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Yeah, and I don't think they should have been shooting so near a public footpath either. I hope those ducks got their revenge too, just like these