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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 ...
A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and a boom hinged at its base to provide articulation, as in a stiffleg derrick. The most basic type of ...
Shear legs are a lifting device related to the gin pole, derrick and tripod (lifting device). Shears are an A-frame of any kind of material such as timbers or metal, the feet resting on or in the ground or on a solid surface which will not let them move and the top held in place with guy-wires or guy ropes simply called "guys".
Mather was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Trinity College for his undergraduate and MA degrees. Mather headed the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company for 50 years from 1890 through 1940. During his tenure he consolidated several mining operations and diversified into iron-ore industries and steel operations.
Companies based in Cleveland, Ohio. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. B. Banks based in Cleveland (4 P) D. Defunct ...
In 1964, it became the very first American vessel to have an automated boiler system, manufactured by Bailey Controls of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985, Cleveland-Cliffs sold its two remaining operating steamers to Rouge Steel Company, and gradually sold off its idle vessels until only SS William G. Mather remained, laid up in Toledo, Ohio where she ...
Guyed steel lattice mast 100 Aircraft collision Hit by a B-29. [4] Ochsenkopf, West Germany January 1958: Guyed steel tube mast 50 Ice Replaced by concrete tower KAYS-TV Tower, Hays, Kansas: May 29, 1959: Guyed steel tube mast 224 Storm with 105 kt winds [5] Top 150 m of the tower toppled. Replaced within three months by a mast 251 m tall.
The Bingham Company Warehouse is a historic warehouse located in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. It was designed by the noted local firm of Walker and Weeks for the W. Bingham Company , and is one of the architectural firm's few utilitarian commercial buildings.