enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Gin pole - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_pole

   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 ...

3. Crane (machine) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_(machine)

   The long horizontal jib is the part of the crane that carries the load. The counter-jib carries a counterweight, usually of concrete blocks, while the jib suspends the load to and from the center of the crane. The crane operator either sits in a cab at the top of the tower or controls the crane by radio remote control from the ground.

4. Jib (crane) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jib_(crane)

   A jib or jib arm is the horizontal or near-horizontal beam used in many types of crane to support the load clear of the main support. [1] [2] An archaic spelling is gib. [3] Usually jib arms are attached to a vertical mast or tower or sometimes to an inclined boom.

5. Bulk-handling crane - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk-handling_crane

   Working the grab requires extra cables from the crane jib, so requires a specialised design of crane throughout, not merely an attachment. Some grabs use 2 cables for lift and control, others use 4. In 1927, Stothert & Pitt of Bath, Somerset produced the first specialised bulk-handling crane. [1] This was to unload coal at Barking power station ...

6. Jib - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jib

   A jib is a triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel. Its forward corner ( tack ) is fixed to the bowsprit , to the bows , or to the deck between the bowsprit and the foremost mast.

7. Oliver Farm Equipment Company - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Farm_Equipment_Company

   1937-1948 era Oliver Model 80 agricultural tractor. The Oliver Farm Equipment Company was an American farm equipment manufacturer from the 20th century. It was formed as a result of a 1929 merger of four companies: [1]: 5 the American Seeding Machine Company of Richmond, Indiana; Oliver Chilled Plow Works of South Bend, Indiana; Hart-Parr Tractor Company of Charles City, Iowa; and Nichols and ...

8. Teacher killed by falling pole after tractor trailer hit ...

   www.aol.com/teacher-killed-falling-pole-tractor...

   A 2014 Peterbilt tractor trailer was driving north on S.C. 113/Main Street when it hit low-hanging power lines, according to Lance Cpl. Brittany Glover of the South Carolina Highway Patrol. That ...

9. Guy-wire - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-wire

   A sailboat's mast is supported by shrouds (side-to-side) and stays (fore-and-aft) – nautical equivalents of guy wires.. A guy-wire, guy-line, guy-rope, down guy, or stay, also called simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a freestanding structure.