Dear All
This term is still in use in craneage.
If a crane boom has multiple hooks, the smallest one, normally a simple hook
attached to a single line running over a pulley at the end of the boom, is
known as the "whip hook" or simply the whip. For example - "That load is
light enough to handle with the whip"
Gavin
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From: "NEWMAN, Phil" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Mining term 'whip'
Robert,
D Bradford Barton refers to a device called a 'whip' or 'whipsidery'
which was a hoisting device whereby the horse at surface walked
backwards and forwards in a straight line with the rope running directly
over the pulleys above the shaft, thus cutting out the need for a whim
cage. It would only be of use at limited depth though. Don't have the
book with me but I think it was Cornish Essay VOl 1, 1968.
Phil
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Robert Waterhouse
Sent: 03 May 2008 20:02
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Subject: Re: Mining term 'whip'
Dear List,
What does the term 'whip' mean in an underground context? The C19 Wheal
Friendship section drawing shows two shafts called East & West Whip
Shafts, both of which are named as 'chain roads' higher up in the mine;
they both converge on the foot of Courtice's Shaft. I suspect the chain
roads carried chains on pulleys which transferred back-and-forth motion
to deep pumping machinery - do whips have something to do with this?
Robert Waterhouse
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