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    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...
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    Derrick (section Gin pole)
    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...
    16 KB (2,363 words) - 04:40, 15 February 2025
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    cranes, power shovels, draglines, and derricks, starting with the simple gin pole. The principal applications of guyed masts are the masts of sailing vessels...
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    sailboats for similar tasks. Shear legs are a lifting device related to the gin pole, derrick and tripod (lifting device). Shears are an A-frame of any kind...
    4 KB (533 words) - 06:17, 15 February 2025
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    tall. In November 2023, the tower began being dismantled by the use of a gin pole since the property was sold to a land developer. CHCH erected a new tower...
    4 KB (410 words) - 13:55, 25 June 2024
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    A gin and tonic is a highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water poured over a large amount of ice. The ratio of gin to tonic varies according to taste...
    16 KB (1,724 words) - 05:50, 7 March 2025
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    8174274; -81.3966678 (Goal post pylons) Broadcast Tower Technologies. "Gin Pole Services". Retrieved 2009-10-24. "Powering Up – Vertical Magazine". verticalmag...
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    Guy (sailing) Radio masts and towers Tie rod Turnbuckle Shackle Ferrule Gin pole Bracing (aeronautics)#Bracing_wires BULLETIN 1724E-153 RD-GD-2001-39 Electric...
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    that scaffolding was not used in the bridge's construction; instead a gin pole was used to build the first tower, then a traveling crane was built atop...
    38 KB (3,878 words) - 23:37, 20 March 2025
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    strictly be called a 'crane'. Types of crane-like lifting machine include: gin pole Block and tackle Capstan (nautical) Hoist (device) Winch Windlass Cherry...
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    mounted small wind turbines are typically supported by four guy-wire, and a gin pole used to raise and lower the tower. Full mounting sets called "tower kits"...
    27 KB (2,910 words) - 10:35, 26 February 2025
  • timber frame home in the form of a hammerbeam truss. Barn raising Pike pole Gin pole Timber roof truss Tau Beta Pi — engineering society whose seal incorporates...
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  • help assist water being pumped out of water wells in the Sinai Peninsula. Gin pole Illustrations of a gyn and a gyn ropeway are on page 5-24 of the Sea Cadet...
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    short sawhorses are called ponies. Gin pole or shear legs may be used in lifting wall sections or timbers. Pike pole used to push wall sections up during...
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  • 468 Maintenance for DTV install Three died when tower collapsed after a gin pole ran off its track and snapped a guy wire Grigoriopol transmitter, Moldova...
    53 KB (1,203 words) - 01:04, 16 December 2024
  • were killed, and one worker was injured when a gust of wind caught the gin pole being used for construction of a new antenna for KXTX. After the collapse...
    17 KB (1,867 words) - 04:56, 10 March 2025
  • lifting points were not designed for the final lift. The cable from the gin pole would intersect the dish of the antenna and damage it. The design analysis...
    13 KB (1,697 words) - 18:36, 17 February 2025
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    The blocks were hoisted into place by six men with a mule team and a gin pole. The building has been in continuous operation as a general store and post...
    3 KB (251 words) - 22:25, 6 August 2023
  • Three workers were killed and one injured when a gust of wind caught the gin pole being used for construction of a new antenna for KXTX-TV. With their tower...
    14 KB (1,692 words) - 04:30, 19 February 2025
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    but can be classed into three groups. One method is to use the boom as a gin pole, laying the mast on deck, with the boom at right angles. Hauling on the...
    18 KB (2,428 words) - 17:42, 3 January 2023
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