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  2. Gin pole - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Derrick - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Shear legs - Wikipedia

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    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".

  5. Gyn - Wikipedia

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    A gyn is an improvised three-legged lifting device used on sailing ships.It provides more stability than a derrick or sheers, and requires no rigging for support. Without additional support, however, it can only be used for lifting things directly up and down.

  6. Guy-wire - Wikipedia

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    Guy (red arrow), controlling the spinnaker pole. The guys supporting a sailboat mast are called "standing rigging" and in modern boats are stainless steel wire rope. Guys are rigged to the bow and stern, usually as a single guy. Lateral guys attach to "chain plates" port and starboard attached to the hull.

  7. Guyed mast - Wikipedia

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    A guyed radio mast. A guyed mast is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground or a base) for stability. The mast itself has the compressive strength to support its own weight, but does not have the shear strength to stand unsupported or bear loads.

  8. Rigging - Wikipedia

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    Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support and control a sailing ship or sail boat's masts and sails. Standing rigging is the fixed rigging that supports masts including shrouds and stays. Running rigging is rigging which adjusts the position of the vessel's sails and spars including halyards, braces, sheets and ...

  9. List of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and towers

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    Three died when tower collapsed after a gin pole ran off its track and snapped a guy wire Grigoriopol transmitter, Moldova 1997: Guyed steel lattice mast 350 Ice Two masts collapsed 250 KXJB-TV mast, North Dakota, US April 6, 1997: Guyed steel lattice mast 628 Ice KNOE-TV Tower, Columbia, Louisiana: March 20, 1997: Guyed steel lattice mast 606 ...