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an accent to your home or garden now! Whitehall Products 24 and 30 inch Weathervanes With Arrow Ornaments Accent Directions. This size is for various applications. Crafted of rust-free aluminum they sell at value prices. Each weathervane includes an adjustable aluminum roof mount base. You may have a choice of decorations including clipper, horse, rooster, eagle, pheasant, retriever, sailboat, duck, hog, country doctor or cow. Whitehall Products is the world's largest manufacturer of weathervanes. We offer over 50 different styles. Many styles include a variety of color choices including traditional black, aged verdigris or rust, polished copper ornaments, gold-bronze ornaments, and even hand painted ornaments. Over 60 years of weathervane making experience assures you will receive a carefully crafted and meticulously detailed weather instrument that will provide a lifetime of enjoyment. ABOUT WEATHERVANES: Weathervanes (or weather vanes) are also known as windvanes, whirligigs or weathercocks. Traditionally they often had a cockerel on top of the compass, but nowadays almost any shape can be used. Their function is to show the direction in which the wind is blowing, helping to forecast weather conditions. Weather vanes can be fixed to a roof, chimney, cupola, tower, post, wall, shed or gazebo. |
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are the enduring symbol of our dependence upon the weather. Humankind has
been testing the wind changes in weather for centuries.From raising a moistened
finger to tossing blades of grass into the air, we have employed various
methods for checking wind direction before embarking upon work or play.
By definition the weather vane, or weathercock as it is also called, is
a figure that turns freely on a vertical rod and by design, always points
into the wind. Stated another way, the wind always comes from the direction
in which the weather vane points. Wherever people have settled, their reliance
upon the weather vane has been as basic to them as grinding wheat for bread.
The weather vane has always represented a simpler way of life, a life that
is tied closely to nature.At the end of each day and with the dawning of
the next, people have looked to the sky and studied the direction of their
weather; vane. They have plowed and sewn, reaped and stored, worked and
played trusting the good directions of the wind that drove their fate. Derived
from the Old English word fane, meaning flag or banner, the weather vane
was part of ancient cultures as early as 48 B.C. when a life-sized replica
of the Greek god Triton was hoisted atop the Towers of Winds in Athens.
Even then mankind realized that wind direction was the near certain indicator
of weather patterns. |
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