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2. Drawbar (haulage) - Wikipedia

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   A large ballast tractor pulling a load using a drawbar General duty tow hitch from VBG on a truck and a drawbar on a trailer, showing a connected drawbar eye Rockinger drawbar coupling, in which the drawbar eye gets locked. A drawbar is a solid coupling between a hauling vehicle and its hauled load. Drawbars are in common use with rail ...

3. Fifth-wheel coupling - Wikipedia

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   A wheel would be placed on the rear frame section of the truck, which at the time had only four wheels, making the additional wheel the "fifth wheel". The trailer needed to be raised so that the trailer's pin would be able to drop into the central hole of the fifth wheel.

4. Trucker's hitch - Wikipedia

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   The trucker's hitch is a compound knot commonly used for securing loads on trucks [7] or trailers.The general arrangement, using loops and turns in the rope itself to form a crude block and tackle, has long been used to tension lines and is known by multiple names.

5. Semi-trailer truck - Wikipedia

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   Conventional style cab tractor A cab-over semi-tractor Tractor with an end-dump trailer A FAW semi-trailer truck in China A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms – see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth wheel. Other terms There are a ...

6. Three-point hitch - Wikipedia

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   The grey bars are a separate implement (a towing ball hitch) attached to the linkage. The three-point hitch is made up of several components working together. These include the tractor's hydraulic system, attaching points, the lifting arms, and stabilizers. Three-point hitches are composed of three movable arms.

7. Cheater bar - Wikipedia

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   The cheater bar itself can become part of a de facto catapult with the worker in the line-of-fire. [1] If the over-torqueing results in the failure of any of the items in the jury rig, the fragments can injure workers in the line-of-fire. [2] The use of the cheater bar can result in component damage that can, in turn, harm workers. [3]

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9. Railway coupling - Wikipedia

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   To release the coupling, it was sufficient to release the locking bar by pulling on a chain or a handle, which released the rotation of the disk hook. The coupler was mainly used on narrow gauge railways of the British colonies, like e.g. the Bauchi Light Railway in Nigeria , Ceylon , Honduras or the Kalka-Shimla Railway in India .