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A sling is an item of climbing equipment consisting of a tied or sewn loop of webbing. These can be wrapped around sections of rock, hitched to other pieces of equipment, or tied directly to a tensioned line using a Prusik style knot.
A reverse bungee launch with the passenger car nearing the top of the launch. Passenger car immediately after launch. The reverse bungee (also known as catapult bungee, slingshot, or ejection seat) is a modern type of fairground ride.
The creek has one named tributary, which is known as Little Butler Creek, and is not designated as an impaired waterbody. The creek's valley is a "beaded valley", at least in its upper reaches, and has thick deposits of till in its valley. The headwaters of Butler Creek are in a lake known as Butler Lake. A number of bridges have also been ...
Deer Creek is a stream in northwestern Benton County, Arkansas and southwestern McDonald County, Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of Butler Creek . The stream headwaters are in Arkansas east-northeast of Sulphur Springs at an elevation of about 1,200 feet (370 m) ( 36°29′24″N 94°24′07″W / 36.49000°N 94.40194°W / 36.49000 ...
Rigging is both a noun, the equipment, and verb, the action of designing and installing the equipment, in the preparation to move objects. A team of riggers design and install the lifting or rolling equipment needed to raise, roll, slide or lift objects such as heavy machinery, structural components, building materials, or large-scale fixtures ...
A sling or Prusik-dedicated sewn loop can also be used. A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle is called a becket. [5] Note that Dyneema/Spectra has a very low melting point and should not be used in Prusik hitches unless the cord or sling is specifically engineered for it (as seen in some sheathed constructions). The length of this ...
Butler Creek may refer to the following streams: Butler Creek (Elk River tributary), Arkansas and Missouri; Butler Creek (White River tributary), Arkansas and Missouri;
A whoopie sling for hammock camping. A whoopie sling is an easily adjustable rope sling designed for tree pruning or tree removal. [1] [2] The whoopie sling works by wrapping the sling around the trunk of a tree or a heavy load bearing limb and pulling the end of the rope within the sling through a spliced choker. By adjusting the size of the ...