Tilting at…
![Old traditional windmills on the banks of a bay](https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fmicroblog.pratikmhatre.com%2Fuploads%2F2023%2Fe9a4cace9d.jpg)
@pratik ok, dumb question: do windmills rotate on their base? (I guess they'd need to)
@rickcogley Ah! No. These are the old kinds. They were built to face the usual direction of the wind.
@pratik First off all, lovely picture. And also great discovery in the comments. I wouldn’t have noticed it, but as soon as you zoom in, you can see the rotating platform. Which I still wouldn’t have noticed except that it looks so similar to another design I know. I grew up in and around forestry, and one of the machines (Valmet 911C and 911.3) has a cab that sits on a large tilting, hydraulically controlled slew ring, so that it can rotate with the boom and remain level on any terrain.