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The earliest windlasses were believed to have been used in one of the first penal collieries (coal-mining) in Tasmania. This colliery, which was run by convict labour, operated from 1843-1844, long before the goldrushes when windlasses were more common. the windlass was used to draw water up out of the mines.

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