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Furthermore, an additional bending moment in the derrick is prevented by the topping lift tackle acting on the crab.
The derrick cranes being used for erection were then moved forward to the next segment and the cycle was repeated.
Today, two derrick cranes will move the heavy reactor and its related equipment to a trailer with 360 wheels on the pier.
A 350 ft derrick will support the six-mile drill pipe, which could take more than a year to drive through the crust.
Hoisted on a makeshift derrick, the cob was taller than the angler who had taken it.
Each dredge would then be tipped inboard and the scallops emptied by pulling a line over the emptying derrick from the base of the dredge.
Tuff cared for derrick and his older sister, LaVita, while working two or three jobs at a time.
This compound derrick, powered by horses or steam, served as a prototype for the steel derricks used in high-rise construction today.
The centrepiece of the vessel is the derrick, which is over 60 metres high.
In the late 1970s his long-time mistress, Cecilia Matos, would appear in a necklace from which hung a small, gold, oil derrick.
As Maersk points out the derrick alone is bigger than a Boeing 747-400 jet, which is a mere 56 metres in length with a wingspan of 60 metres.
One of my jobs with two or three of my shipmates was to rig the derrick to bring on supplies.
The journey then continues down a bumpy dirt track for almost 400 metres, past the trucks at the gravel pit, and finally the white top of the drilling derrick becomes visible over the tops of the trees.
In little over a decade, the microchip has replaced the oil derrick as the driving force behind the state's economy, making Texas far less dependent on stable commodity prices.
Gazing up at the Korean sky searching for the top of the Viking's derrick, it is not clear whether one is looking at a modern wonder or a dinosaur.
As the weight came on the derrick head block the fish in the net unexpectedly slid to port, pinning one of the crew members on to the port bulwark.
Based on the law of stability and physics, the weight of the catch would have effectively transferred to the derrick head when the winch operator took the strain on the winch.
The Chaffey derrick was a Canadian invention devised by Benjamin Chaffey, who had contracted in canal construction for years in Canada and was responsible for all masonry on the southern half of the bridge.
One of the cranes collapsed, followed by the drilling derrick.
Three days a month became a nonstop fuckathon. He'd had these visions of himself as an oil derrick made of flesh, pumping endlessly and joylessly away.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A wooden derrick, provided with topping lift and guys, was mounted on the foremast by means of a band and goose-neck.
In capacity to handle material, one telpher was about equal to one derrick.
A derrick capable of moving heavy boulders, and driven by water power, is a necessity in all hydraulic mining.
The derrick was used to handle material excavated from the pier foundations and also to tear down the centers and spandrel forms.
The buckets were filled and emptied alternately by shuttling the truck and attaching first one and then the other to the derrick.
It had a friction crab hoist driven by an electric motor, both of which were fastened to the derrick frame between the shear legs.
The man on the edge of the pit who was holding the guide rope attached to the swinging derrick was caught in the rush of workmen.
The cable that ran from it was entangled with the wreckage of the derrick, but it had not been cut.
I had to be pulled out of the peppermint mine with a derrick.
Captain aspinwall examined the supports of the derrick on deck.
The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there.
A derrick was being spun along the cableway, just above the excavation.
Most of the barges had derrick masts, and all these masts were moving.
Where the derrick had stood was the mouth of the twenty-inch casing.
And there, where the derrick had stood, was a tall plume of white.
Wisbech said he wished to see derrick Nasmyth, and the man nodded.
A Tatar had gone to the derrick with a lantern to fetch a tool.
The forty-foot tower is built much like an oil well derrick.
A lumbering old lighter with a yawing derrick passed close aboard.
The artist erected a man in the front yard, that resembled a derrick.
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