One Of The Last Australian Windmill Mechanic Repairs Traditional Rural Farming Machines

GUNNEDAH, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 2: Windmill repairman Owen Tydd inspects the blades of a windmill after climbing it in a drought-affected paddock on a property located on the Liverpool Plains in the North West Slopes region of New South Wales October 2, 2019 near Gunnedah, Australia. Seventy-one-year-old Owen Tydd is one of the last windmill repairmen in Australia. He has been called upon by thousands of farmers across New South Wales and beyond to repair and install windmills for the last 30 years. He calls himself a Windmill Mechanic and estimates he has climbed over 10,000 windmills during his career. An iconic part of the Australian rural landscape, windmills were originally used to mill grain or pump groundwater, but with the use of new technologies are fast becoming obsolete. (Footage by David Gray/Getty Images)