It looks like some sort of catapult. It is very large. I wonder about it every time I see it, and would love to know what it is and what it is used for.
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EJ, I have been wondering the same thing for several years!! Thanks for posting.
I believe that this is the remnants of a one time Windmill. It has been there for about 30 years that I remember.
Is it a trebuchet? they are quite popular, especially for tossing pumpkins.
Gourmet Gloucester is right it’s an old windmill that never worked properly.
It is a big arrow pointing to where the UPS man should drop off packages! The rectangle on the left end is a package and the right end is pointing towards the back door of the house…
I love it!
It was constructed by the Pigeons and was their attempt to put the first Pigeon on the Moon… The Pigeons Space Program has been quietly moving forward and they will be attempting a December Launch if the weather cooperates…
Only you ,Charlie would come up with that. I hope you’ll have a ringside seat to catch the launch.
what’da ya mean a ringside seat… I’m goin with em !
It’s pretty clear they’re planning on launching cows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8jGqdE2iw
What a riot. I’d forgotten that Monty Pithon skit.
It’s the base of an old wind power tower. See the rotor blades at the other end?
It’s over by Lighthouse beach in ‘Squam.
You were the only one who knew where it was located. So if the rotor blades are at the bottom nearest the house, what is the platform looking thing sticking up in the air. I still don’t get it or how it could work. Was it a failed experiment?
The square thing is a counterweight. See how it pivots on a fulcrum?
Some flagpoles are designed like that to make it easier to paint or fix the halyard.
Very interesting, EJ, I will tell Rob about the windmill. I took closeups and still couldn’t figure it out.
it’s a trebuchet. a french catapult. an offensive weapon used in the middle ages. Maybe these people wanted a gigantic slingshot, cuz that’s what it is really
It is indeed an old windmill, the arrow is point towards the counter weight to assist in making it reasonably easy to swing the windmill into the upright position
Looks like some sort of counter weight where you have the arrow for a wind propeller that is lying down towards the house. Looks like if it is rotated counter clockwise from this direction the blades would become vertical. Think of the set ups they use for pumps for farms in the midwest.
I go with the trebuchet theory.
I know the woman who lives next door. Broken windmill is correct.
During the summer months you can barely see this contraption with all the trees. Then falls come, the leaves drop and there it is again. Maybe they built it thinking Lighthouse Cove might get attacked one day. Anyone know WHEN it was constructed?
Yes, most definitely a windmill… Here’s the “other end” of the counterbalance weight to which you pointed… each blade is 12′ long, quite a structure.