E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . FIG. 2. DETAILS OF ROPE FASTENING ON GIN AND SHEARS and three poles, to make a very stiff, serviceable devicewhich will lift SU tons. This amount of rude equip-ment is more often at hand than any regular liftilvice of the capacity given. The Useof Shears fob Lifting Weights \ r w Angle Shears, Fig. 1. consists of two -par- of a suitabLfor the weight to be raised, lashed together at the iwith the feet spread apart. The) are supported in aninclined position by means of guys. The) are used forlifting heavy weij : angle; thai is. not vertical. They are rigge


E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . FIG. 2. DETAILS OF ROPE FASTENING ON GIN AND SHEARS and three poles, to make a very stiff, serviceable devicewhich will lift SU tons. This amount of rude equip-ment is more often at hand than any regular liftilvice of the capacity given. The Useof Shears fob Lifting Weights \ r w Angle Shears, Fig. 1. consists of two -par- of a suitabLfor the weight to be raised, lashed together at the iwith the feet spread apart. The) are supported in aninclined position by means of guys. The) are used forlifting heavy weij : angle; thai is. not vertical. They are rigged as follows: The two spars for the shear- are laid alongside ofeach other with their butts on the -round, withbelow where the lashing is to be resting on a skid. _ Aclove hitch is made around one -par. and the lashing(see Fig. 2) taken loosely eighl or nine times aboul thetwo spars above the hitch without riding. A aof trapping turns are then taken between the spars]; pig 2), and the lashing is finished off with a hitch above the turn


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