page_title: Windshaft
hierarchical_section_title: Windshaft
caption_attribution_description: Molen het Hert, bonkelaar, Putten, Gelderland, the Netherlands
context_page_description: The windshaft is a part in a windmill that carries the sails and also the brake wheel or the head wheel and tail wheel in a Post Mill. Windshafts can be wholly made of wood, or wood with a cast iron poll end or entirely of cast iron.
context_section_description: The windshaft is a part in a windmill that carries the sails and also the brake wheel (Smock and Tower mills, and in some Post mills) or the head wheel and tail wheel in a Post Mill. Windshafts can be wholly made of wood, or wood with a cast iron poll end (upon where the sails are mounted) or entirely of cast iron.
caption: crown wheel with cogs
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