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The head of a pike pole with various implements for pulling items The head of a short firefighter's pike pole. A pike pole is a long metal-topped wooden, aluminium or fiberglass pole used for reaching, hooking and/or pulling on another object. They are variously used in boating, construction, logging, rescue and recovery, power line maintenance ...
A modern cant hook. A log driver using a peavey. A cant hook or pike or a hooked pike is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook called a dog at one end, used for handling and turning logs and cants, especially in sawmills.
Although the traditional boat hook is still available, various different materials, such as aluminium and even a rolled up polymer are now available. [3] Although the boat hook is a general purpose reaching and holding-off tool on boats, there are more specialised forms, such as the Recovery Pole [4] designed for length rather than the rigid strength of a boat hook.
Nope: the Russian sources all used the term bagor багор ("pike pole" - a tool, as the one used by the firefighters, or, for example people who float timber in rafts) rather than pika пике ("pike" - a common Cossack weapon). Apparently a tool with a hook is a lot more convenient for getting the fish from the river bottom than a pike ...
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[1] [2] It is distinguished from a pike pole by having a shorter handle, no metal point, and an opposite curve to its hook (toward the handle rather than away); and from both a cant hook and peavey by having a fixed hook facing its handle rather than a pivoting one facing away.
A 6 to 10 man truck capable of carrying generators, air tanks, lighting, ladders, pike poles, crowbars, dive equipment, and other specialized firefighting tools for use as heavy rescue apparatus, a HazMat vehicle, an Urban Search and Rescue, or Mobile Command Center.
In Europe, barber poles are just red and white—reminiscent of the poles from the Middle Ages. There are a couple theories about why the United States added blue to its design.