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LASHINGS AND SLINGS

ing two bights and tWisting the sling three or four turns away from

you, The bights are then clapped together and put over the hook.

A stone is slung as the foregoing except that a chain is used and

the loop of the chain is hooked directly without having any hitch

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2165. The illustration shows the common way of turning over a

stone while pulling it out of a hole; this doubles the power of the

pull.

2166. The chain strap may be secured with a BLACKWALL HITCH -

to the tackle hook. It is one of the few knots that can be tied in chain -

without fear of jamming.

2167. A CASK SUNG for use when the slings are short. The ends of

slings, unless they are made selvagee fashion, are short spliced to-

gether and the strand ends are "cross seized." (See SPLICE ~ 2639.)

2168. If a cask is to be hoisted with the end of a line, a Cow HITCH

is tied around it and a BOWLINE KNOT tied with the end to the stand-

ing part. This is the same knot formation as the BALE SLING HITCH 2.,66
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but it is tied in the end instead of the bight.

2169. A BUTT or HOGSHEAD SLING is made of heavy hawser-laid

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rope with a thimble eye cast in one end. The end is rove through the

thimble and the NOOSE that is formed is put around one end of the

hogshead and the other end hitches around the other end of the

hogshead and is made fast to the standing part with Two HALF

HITCHES. In such. heavy rope the cargo block is hooked directly to

the bight or'Span of the slings.

2170. The cargo block pictured here is from Diderot's Encyclo-

pedia of 1762. No knotting is required and the cask or pipe has little

tendency to twist or turn in mid-air.

2171. Can hooks are used to lift a barrel by the chines.

2172. A four-strand rope has a ROUND EYE formed in the center

by reeving one end through the strands of the other. A round

thimble is seized in and chine hooks are spliced in at either end of

the span. Nowadays this is usually made of chain.

2173. An older way of rigging can hooks or chine hooks that 2.16 2.1"10

serves the same purpose. A grommet is made through the chine hooks

and the eye is seized in with a round seizing.

2174. A crate sling. The slings are passed lengthwise and crossed

in the mouth of the hook. The two parts are strapped across the ends

to prevent their closing together and spilling the load. 2·12.

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2175. If a single sling is too short, two slings may be bent together

with a STRAP BEND (~1493)' 2. 11 I

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