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2. Billhook - Wikipedia

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   Block hooks: With a straight or slightly convex cutting edge, they were often used in urban environments for cutting against a wooden block, similar to the back edge of a broom hook, used for trimming the head of a birch besom to length. Often found with a small hook at the back of the blade – useful for pulling the wood towards the user.

3. Wooden halibut hook - Wikipedia

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   Traditional working wooden halibut hooks usually have a stone sinker attached, to keep the hook at the optimum level above the bottom, in order to catch halibut of moderate weight. Octopus is a common bait. [2] A carved wooden fishing float is used to signal the fisherman that a halibut has been hooked. Halibut tend to gulp in rather than ...

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5. Block (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   Several different types of block connections as used on sailing ships, including the regular shackle, upset shackle, reverse shackle, reverse upset shackle, swivel jaw, swivel eye made round or oval, loose front hook, loose swivel hook,stiff swivel hook, loose side hook, stiff front hook, and side sister hook. In sailing, a block is a single or ...

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7. Lewis (lifting appliance) - Wikipedia

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   It is made from three pieces of rectangular-section 13 mm (0.51 in)-thick steel legs held together with a shackle, allowing connection to a lifting hook. The middle leg is square throughout its length, while the outer legs are thinner at the top, flaring towards the bottom. Held together, the three legs thus form a dovetail shape.

8. Puretic power block - Wikipedia

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   The Puretic power block is a special kind of mechanised winch used to haul nets on fishing vessels. The power block is a large pulley of aluminium with a hard rubber-coated sheave . While many men were needed for the back-breaking work of hauling a purse seine manually, the same work could be done by fewer men with a power block.

9. Derrick - Wikipedia

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   The union table is fixed again and the derrick can start work on the other side. There are also Stülcken with single-pendulum blocks. In this type the cargo hook is detached and the lower and upper cargo block are hauled into the center of the Stülcken. To tip the derrick over, gravity is used again.