...The crane, or "heavy lift derrick," has a main boom that juts 560 feet into the air and is rigged with 12 miles of steel cable. Operating the machine requires a five-person crew, and the machine was tested by lifting loads of 1,500 tons...
...volunteer ? Steve Smith, of Wisconsin ? the men drilled holes in the trunk of each tree and fastened them with steel cables to the 30-pound concrete weights."This is something we try to do in areas that are used by bank fishermen...
When people look up at one of the many cellphone towers around Augusta, they might see only a tall structure of steel, cables and wires.Alveno Ross sees a puzzle he intends to solve.Ross, the chief appraiser for Augusta-Richmond County...
...The crane, or "heavy lift derrick," has a main boom that juts 560 feet into the air and is rigged with 12 miles of steel cable. Operating the machine requires a five-person crew.Tests involve lifting loads totaling 1,500 tons at 300 feet...
...introduced the "Minnow Chaser." It shows one open-mouthed lure "chasing" a silver, minnow-like object affixed to a steel cable in front. Thoren's idea was to make other fish think it was time to eat when they saw the lure tandem darting through...
...S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologist Tripp Boltin. "We want to give them a chance to spawn." Boats rigged with steel cables attached to generators moved in slow circles, allowing electric current to briefly stun the fish. The twitching shad...
...from his car Wednesday night as it dangled seven floors above the ground in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood. Only steel cables on the side of the parking deck kept the Ford Taurus from falling. In a dramatic rescue, a firefighter rappelled down...
...was trapped in his car after it went over the railing in a parking deck and dangled seven floors above the ground. Steel cables on the side of the deck caught the car late Wednesday. But all four wheels appeared free of the parking deck in Buckhead...
...six months," Mr. Booth said. Median cable barriers helping to save lives COLUMBIA - Median barriers - those thin steel cables stretching across the center of many of South Carolina's interstates - have been hit more than 10,000 times since...
...and a lamp for viewing the depths; and a telephone for communicating with the surface. The sphere would hang from a steel cable and be raised and lowered by a winch from the deck of a barge. In "Descent," Matsen tells how Barton and Beebe met...
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