2013 - Volume #37, Issue #5, Page #31
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Dying Coalfield Equipment Coming To A Farm Near You
Windcreek Services is turning coalfield equipment that would otherwise be scrapped out or go into a landfill, into useful material for farmers and ranchers.
  “We are recycling electrical equipment like breakers, transformers, panels, pumps and motors, as well as pipe of all size. We also have cattle and hog panels, fence posts, fiberglass and steel sheds, and large insulated boxes,” says Tiffany Massie, Windcreek Services, Inc. “We have become innovative at ‘uninstalling’ pipe and wire. Recycling saves money for our customers and keeps our business profitable.”
  The list of items is long and extensive. Windcreek’s Asset Recovery System is removing the materials from a dying coal bed-methane gas field near Gillette, Wyo. The company is reselling everything possible, even limestone rock.
  “Customers are using the insulated boxes and sheds for calf warmers, mailboxes, hunting blinds, garden sheds and more,” says Massie. “One of our crews even built a car out of recovered parts and products.”
  Other reuses cited by Massie include steel and fiberglass tubing for fences, pens and building materials. Guards used around surface valves make tree guards, and the backs of steel electrical panels have been stripped and used for trailer sides, wind breaks, floors, shelves and dividers.
  She adds that people with water well maintenance needs will find lots of 3-phase motors, submersible pumps and down-hole tubing and cables.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Windcreek Services, Inc., P.O. Box 2410,
310 Limestone Ave., Gillette, Wyo. 82717 (ph 307 687-2056; www.windcreekinc.com).


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