You're right, a whole 'nother language. In trying to reeve my way through this luff of instruction I find my brain has become a standing block, simply tied to a becket and unable to move.
When I was a kid we called it a block & tackle, or is it had a chain instead of a rope, a chain fall. We had a pair of chain falls in the boathouse at our cottage on the St Lawrence River.
You're right, a whole 'nother language. In trying to reeve my way through this luff of instruction I find my brain has become a standing block, simply tied to a becket and unable to move.
ReplyDeleteI felt sorry for you, up until the becket part.
DeleteWait till we introduce a Three Fold Purchase, whew!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid we called it a block & tackle, or is it had a chain instead of a rope, a chain fall. We had a pair of chain falls in the boathouse at our cottage on the St Lawrence River.
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