[TheForge] Re: Tackle terminology?

[Woolley]

Greetings,

A good 15- 20 years ago we used a "niggerhead" on  a job I worked with 
the boilermakers.  Mainly a rigging job, we were replacing small tanks 
in a food processing plant.  I had never heard the term before but I can 
tell you the guys on the job weren't afraid to use it.  We had few if 
any black tradesmen in the field back then, usually just laborers, some 
Teamsters.

Regards,
Bill Woolley


Mike wrote:

>>>I was a little surprised to see this.  Has anyone ever heard
>>>the term "nigger head" applied to a portion of a guy derrick?
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>>Also known as a "Gypsy". It's a small auxiliary drum usually fitted on
>>one or both ends of a winch or windlass. To use one, take one or more
>>turns with the bight of the rope around the drum and take in or pay
>>out the slack of the free end.
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