An old engraving of two men using a parbuckle to raise up a barrel on a ramp. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. A parbuckle is a technique using a double-sling length of rope for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical, heavy object, such as this cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened to a post, and both parts are looped around the object. By hauling on the ropes, the heavy object is raised up a slope or ramp – or lowered down when the rope is paid out. This method was very useful in delivering barrels of beer that needed to be lowered down into pub cellars.
An old engraving of two men using a parbuckle to raise up a barrel on a ramp. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. A parbuckle is a technique using a double-sling length of rope for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical, heavy object, such as this cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened to a post, and both parts are looped around the object. By hauling on the ropes, the heavy object is raised up a slope or ramp – or lowered down when the rope is paid out. This method was very useful in delivering barrels of beer that needed to be lowered down into pub cellars.
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