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Shear legs, also known as sheers, shears, or sheer legs, are a form of two-legged lifting device. Shear legs may be permanent, formed of a solid A-frame and supports, as commonly seen on land and the floating sheerleg, or temporary, as aboard a vessel lacking a fixed crane or derrick.
When fixed, they are often used for very heavy lifting, as in tank recovery, shipbuilding, and offshore salvage operations. At dockyards they hoist masts and other substantial rigging parts on board.[1] They are sometimes temporarily rigged on sailboats for similar tasks.
^Robert Kipping (1854). Rudimentary Treatise on Masting, Mast-making, and Rigging of Ships. London: John Weale. pp. 97.
Shearlegs, also known as sheers, shears, or sheer legs, are a form of two-legged lifting device. Shearlegs may be permanent, formed of a solid A-frame...
sheerleg (also: shearleg) is a floating water vessel with a crane built on shearlegs. Unlike other types of crane vessel, it is not capable of rotating its...
shearlegs without any crossbar. The bottom of the legs are set in two holes on the ground, spreading them apart. There is a rope to tie the two legs...
replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The barge carries a shearlegs crane which is the largest barge crane ever used on the U.S. West Coast...
of powered cranes; the raising of the columns was done manually using shearlegs (or shears), a simple crane mechanism. These consisted of two strong poles...
tackle, a deadman with a cleat, an endless whip with a block, a chair, and shearlegs. Once the equipment is prepared, two scouts go up to the tower (these...
its legs and other vital delicate areas on the body behind a hard exoskeleton. Reproduction in most species is carried out by modified male legs called...
However, conventional techniques, using Neolithic technology as basic as shearlegs, have been demonstrably effective at moving and placing stones of a similar...
called a standing derrick or pole derrick, distinguished from sheers (or shearlegs) by having a single boom rather than a two-legged one. In addition to...
reinforce a joint Sawhorses, short sawhorses are called ponies. Gin pole or shearlegs may be used in lifting wall sections or timbers. Pike pole used to push...
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actually modified legs instead of fangs. Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; the number of pairs of legs is an odd number that...
to lift 3-long-ton (3.0 t) loads on a jib or 10 long tons (10 t) using shearlegs. The box had a cab in front, behind which was a winding drum connected...
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was built, and the housing for the forced laborers was improved. A new shearlegs was made, the optical telegraph was repaired and the barracks for sailors...
the boulders, as well as "40 manhours for cutting timber and making the shear-legs and sledges", and "another 40 for fetching and trimming the timbers",...
fourth pair of legs and the abdomen, with one opening on each side. In more active species, spiracles are also found upon the tibia of the legs. They have...
as horizontal shear forces, and better leverage for resisting tipping over due to lateral forces can be achieved by spreading the legs away from the vertical...
vinegaroons. Adult arachnids have eight legs attached to the cephalothorax, although the frontmost pair of legs in some species has converted to a sensory...
a dressing table, or even a chair seat. Gloag points out that Thomas Shearer's designs for two "commode dressing chests" illustrated in The Cabinet-Makers'...
A sheep shearer is a worker who uses (hand-powered)-blade or machine shears to remove wool from domestic sheep during crutching or shearing. During the...
crane equipment. A Sheer-legs barge is a barge with sheer-legs mounted at one end, which can lift loads and luff the sheer-legs to adjust the reach, but...
Blade shearing or hand shearing is the style of shearing sheep and other animals with fibrous coats (alpaca, llama, goats etc.) with a set of specialized...
appearance that each segment bears two pairs of legs, while the other three groups have a single pair of legs on each body segment. Although not generally...
plenipes have over 600 legs, twice the average for millipede species, with one recorded specimen having 750 legs. It had the most legs of any species known...
reaching 12–15 cm (5–6 in) in length, including legs. In practice, the respective lengths of the legs of various species differ greatly, so the resulting...