Wooden post-mill
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:18 pm
http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php ... t_Mill.jpg
I think your model of the post mill is incorrect. Yours has an angled leg at each corner making it fixed. The four legs should meet together beneath the floor of the building at the main "post" (which carries the principal weight of the structure) to allow the whole building to be rotated around this post so the sails can face into the wind.
http://previews.123rf.com/images/alk/al ... -Photo.jpg
http://previews.123rf.com/images/imfoto ... -Photo.jpg
http://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/wp-co ... ndmill.jpg
http://gerald-massey.org.uk/windmills/i ... 0c1934.jpg
http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/im ... tley02.jpg
Later the post and legs were protected from the weather by a wooden, stone or brick base:
http://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_ ... 026645.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9HIl7OyJpH0/V ... aremaa.gif
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/B2TNHT/young-c ... B2TNHT.jpg
However inside this structure the post arrangement was unchanged:
http://www.unionmill.org.uk/Images/Glossary/Post.jpg
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/44/61/ ... 449d4e.jpg
I think your model of the post mill is incorrect. Yours has an angled leg at each corner making it fixed. The four legs should meet together beneath the floor of the building at the main "post" (which carries the principal weight of the structure) to allow the whole building to be rotated around this post so the sails can face into the wind.
http://previews.123rf.com/images/alk/al ... -Photo.jpg
http://previews.123rf.com/images/imfoto ... -Photo.jpg
http://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/wp-co ... ndmill.jpg
http://gerald-massey.org.uk/windmills/i ... 0c1934.jpg
http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/im ... tley02.jpg
Later the post and legs were protected from the weather by a wooden, stone or brick base:
http://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_ ... 026645.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9HIl7OyJpH0/V ... aremaa.gif
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/B2TNHT/young-c ... B2TNHT.jpg
However inside this structure the post arrangement was unchanged:
http://www.unionmill.org.uk/Images/Glossary/Post.jpg
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/44/61/ ... 449d4e.jpg