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2. Whippletree (mechanism) - Wikipedia

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   It is also referred to as an equalizer, leader bar, or double tree. It consists of a bar pivoted at or near the centre, with force applied from one direction to the pivot and from the other direction to the tips. Several whippletrees may be used in series to distribute the force further, such as to simulate pressure over an area as when ...

3. Two half-hitches - Wikipedia

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   Two half hitches is the commonest of all hitches for mooring in particular and also for general utility. Steel gives the name in 1794. The difference between two half hitches and the clove hitch is that the former, after a single turn around a spar, is made fast around its own standing part, while the latter is tied directly around the spar.

4. Taut-line hitch - Wikipedia

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   One taut-line hitch is tied 15–30 cm from the aircraft and adjusted for tension, then a second taut-line hitch is tied 5–20 cm further from the aircraft and finished with a half-hitch. Wind-induced lift tends to pull the knot tighter, gust-induced oscillations tend to damp-out, and once the half hitch is undone, pushing the lower working ...

5. Hitch (knot) - Wikipedia

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   A kind of hitch, which is a knot used for attaching rope to a pole or other structure. Pipe hitch: A hitch-type knot used to secure smooth cylindrical objects. Prusik knot: A friction hitch or knot used to put a loop of cord around a rope, applied in climbing, canyoneering, mountaineering, caving, rope rescue, and by arborists. Reverse half hitches

6. Clove hitch - Wikipedia

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   The clove hitch is an ancient type of knot, made of two successive single hitches [1]: 283 tied around an object. It is most effectively used to secure a middle section of rope to an object it crosses over, [ 1 ] : 213 such as a line on a fencepost.

7. Equalizer - Wikipedia

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   The Equalizer (2021 TV series), reboot of the 1985 TV series; The Equalizer, a 2014 film loosely based on the 1985 TV series; The Equalizer 2, a 2018 film and the sequel to the 2014 film; The Equalizer 3, a 2023 film and the sequel to the 2018 film; Dave Sullivan (wrestler) (born 1960), American retired wrestler, stagename "The Equalizer"

8. Tow hitch - Wikipedia

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   A tow hitch (or tow bar or trailer hitch in North America [1]) is a device attached to the chassis of a vehicle for towing, or a towbar to an aircraft nose gear. It can take the form of a tow ball to allow swiveling and articulation of a trailer , or a tow pin, or a tow hook with a trailer loop, often used for large or agricultural vehicles ...

9. ISO standards for trailer connectors - Wikipedia

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   13-pin trailer connector of Jaeger type. (screw terminals - trailer PLUG). see photograph typical rear of 13 pin trailer Plug showing terminals with pin numbers. Physical design of the standard ISO 11446 [2] [3] but also called Jaeger-connector from the company that developed it.