[TheForge] Tackle terminology?

[Jerry Frost]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Brown" <quahog@tds.net>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Tackle terminology?


> At 12:04 02/22/04, you 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?
>
> 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.  In the picture in the link you sent it's part of the
> donkey engine and windlass set up shown at the bottom left.
>
> Dave Brown
> Schooner Star II (former owner)
>


We called them "catheads".

19 years a driller and I can still hear an anvil fall over.

<grin>

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