Wendy put a name to it, but Gloria was first with a "I know" and China with a "me too". On the scant detail given well done everybody. A Yale Pul-Lift.
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.Quite a heavy lump over 30 lbs you need a hoist to use it as a hoist. I use mine for pulling tree stumps out.
I should have known! A favourite tool of mine when I was handling big lumps on the Whitelees engine. They saved the day when I ran out of headroom once while lifting the Whitelees beam. One of their great advantages is that they require so little headroom. Nice one!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Once upon a time there was this wisdom tooth who's owner decided it was wasting its time where it was so out it went. Then as a reminder of all the pain and suffering it had caused the top was silver plated and stuck on a ring. A bit reminiscent of the days when traitors heads where stuck on a spike and displayed on London Bridge.
Good memory there! You three have it between you. Timer for an old gas lamp in the street. 8 day clockwork movement, solid brass and still runs perfectly despite its age. There must have been tens of thousands of these at one time.....
Next one?
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
If I remember correctly these things were for holding together thin sheets of material accurately in the likes of aircraft assembly. Clamps for drilling sheet metal or something similar.
Thinking or rivets, aluminium and aircraft - we are watching those Jon Snow TV programmes on plane spotting and they showed a section of the fuselage from a 1950s Comet airliner with the crack all the way along under the square windows. A zany programme but some interesting facts and brilliant photos. At least plane spotting, like many hobbies, keeps people from mischief and gets them out of doors!
Nullius in verba: On the word of no one (Motto of the Royal Society)