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Classic ice rods – still widely used – are simply stiff rod-like pieces of wood, usually with a carved wooden handle, a couple of line guides, and two opposing hooks mounted ahead of the handle to hand-wind the line around. Ice rods are used to fish through holes in the cover ice of frozen lakes and ponds.
The head of a pike pole with various implements for pulling items The head of a short firefighter's pike pole. A pike pole is a long metal-topped wooden, aluminium or fiberglass pole used for reaching, hooking and/or pulling on another object. They are variously used in boating, construction, logging, rescue and recovery, power line maintenance ...
A Stobie pole is a power line pole made of two steel I-beams, joined by tie-bolts, and held apart by a slab of concrete. It was invented by Adelaide Electric Supply Company engineer James Cyril Stobie, who suggested the use of readily available materials due to the shortage of suitably long, strong, straight and termite -resistant timber in ...
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Using digging bars to move rocks A girl and a man dig a hole with a heavy digging bar to plant a tree. Common uses of digging bars include breaking up clay, concrete, frozen ground, and other hard materials, moving or breaking up tree roots and obstacles, and making holes in the ground for fence posts.
The situation escalated when the trio struck the man with tent poles and a tripod. They also threw other objects at him, according to police. Read more: Meet the homeless L.A. immigrants who built ...
This self-proclaimed hole-in-the-wall burger joint closes daily at 2:30 p.m. so workers can "go home to play with their kids," but the grass-fed beef and sweet potato fries keep fans coming back ...
Lightweight poles such as: tripod legs, tent poles, fishing rods, billiards cues, walking sticks, and high-reach poles such as for window cleaning. Dentistry, carbon fiber posts are used in restoring root canal treated teeth. Railed train bogies for passenger service. This reduces the weight by up to 50% compared to metal bogies, which ...