Dutch windmill powering at full speed - right up close to the sails

Kinderdijk.
The old fashioned windmills, or "molen" as they are called in clog-land, were built 250 years ago to pump water out of the lowlands (polders) of Holland to keep them dry.

This windmill was open to the public so I had a look round it. I couldn't find any mice there, and they certainly weren't going clip clippity clop on the stair. (well the only person doing that was me - I fell down one)

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[zonkozonko]

Surprised how near the ground the sails come do you have to climb the sail to set the cloth? On the British windmills I know of the sails are wooden shutters which open and close but they are always high up from the ground?