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A gin pole in use loading logs A gin pole used to install a weather vane atop the 200-foot steeple of a church Roof trusses being assembled with gin poles. A gin pole is a mast supported by one or more guy-wires that uses a pulley or block and tackle mounted on its upper end to lift loads. The lower end is braced or set in a shallow hole and ...
A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and a boom hinged at its base to provide articulation, as in a stiffleg derrick. The most basic type of ...
Shear legs are a lifting device related to the gin pole, derrick and tripod (lifting device). Shears are an A-frame of any kind of material such as timbers or metal, the feet resting on or in the ground or on a solid surface which will not let them move and the top held in place with guy-wires or guy ropes simply called "guys".
TM 11-364 K-44-B Truck and earth borer equipment HD TM 11-487 Electrical Communication systems Equipment. dated 2 October 1944 TM 11-487-C1 military standardization handbook dated 1965
front cover G1 1930. This is the Group G series List of the United States military vehicles by (Ordnance) supply catalog designation, – one of the alpha-numeric "standard nomenclature lists" (SNL) that were part of the overall list of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog designation, a supply catalog that was used by the United States Army Ordnance Department / Ordnance Corps as ...
A logging truck or timber lorry is a large truck used to carry logs. [1] Some have integrated flatbeds, some are discrete tractor units, and some are configured to spread a load between the tractor unit and a dollied trailer pulled behind it. Often more than one trailer is attached.
The International Paystar (also known as 5000e and PayStar) is a series of trucks that was manufactured by International Harvester and its successor, Navistar International. Produced from 1973 to 2017 across three generations, the Paystar replaced the long-running 210/230 and M-series.
A General Post Office (later British Telecom) version used for installing telegraph poles was known as the Pole King. [ 3 ] Available with inline four or inline six cylinder petrol and diesel engines from Bedford, Leyland and Perkins , the TK was the quintessential light truck in the United Kingdom through most of the 1960s and 1970s, competing ...