{{more citations needed|date=July 2022}} 200px|thumb|A windshaft lying near a mill thumb|left|Hook Windmill, North Main Street at Pantigo Road, East Hampton, Suffolk County, NY HAER NY,52-HAMTE,2- (sheet 6 of 6) thumb|right|200px|Windshaft connected to other parts. 1=sails; 2=windshaft; 3=brake wheel, 4=crown wheel with cogs; 5=vertical or main shaft. 270px|thumb|left|brake wheel
270px|thumb|left|crown wheel with cogs and windshaft
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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=CLARK |first=H. O |last2=WAILES |first2=REX |date=1949-01-01 |title=Notes on the Berton Sail and the Caviers or Hollow Post Mills of Anjou |url=https://doi.org/10.1179/tns.1949.020 |journal=Transactions of the Newcomen Society |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=211–216 |doi=10.1179/tns.1949.020 |issn=0372-0187|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== References ==
*{{HAER |survey=NY-105 |id=ny1247 |title=Hook Windmill, North Main Street at Pantigo Road, East Hampton, Suffolk County, NY |photos=35 |color=1 |dwgs=6 |data=14 |cap=4}} {{Reflist}}
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