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Sheerlegs mounted on an M32 tank recovery vehicle. Shear legs, also known as sheers, shears, or sheer legs, are a form of two-legged lifting device.Shear legs may be permanent, formed of a solid A-frame and supports, as commonly seen on land and the floating sheerleg, or temporary, as aboard a vessel lacking a fixed crane or derrick.
On the top side, the two legs are connected together by a lashing but with a small spacer block placed between the legs. A sling, which may be made from ropes, is placed around the area that two legs meet to be used to put a tackle pulley system for lifting the load. There are two guy wires, front and rear, to support the shear legs.
1600 ton maximum lift capacity sheerleg Taklift 7 of Smit International. A floating sheerleg (also: shearleg) is a floating water vessel with a crane built on shear legs. Unlike other types of crane vessel, it is not capable of rotating its crane independently of its hull. There is a huge variety in sheerleg capacity.
The barge carries a shear legs crane which is the largest barge crane ever used on the U.S. West Coast. The barge's name is taken from " Left Coast ", a slang phrase that plays on the fact that the U.S. West Coast is on the left of the United States when viewing a map with north oriented at the top.
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A gin pole used to install a weather vane atop the 200-foot steeple of a church Roof trusses being assembled with gin poles. The gin pole is derived from a gyn, and considered a form of derrick, called a standing derrick or pole derrick, [2] distinguished from sheers (or shear legs) by having a single boom rather than a two-legged one.
Two horses stuck deep in mud for hours in Connecticut were pulled out by more than a dozen rescuers Saturday, emerging messy and tired, but safe. A trio of horses were walking from a pasture to a ...
Young powered the Hawks to a wild 124-121 win over the Utah Jazz on Tuesday night with one of the most ridiculous shots of his career. Young's shot was only half of the finish at the Delta Center.