sired length for one link, gives it a genious machinery can equal, much less supplant. made large quantities of ships’ cables for the United couple of blows to form the welding scarf, bends it States government, and particularly for the lightships There are not many such cases, it is true, but they… … which are required. Thus we helpers (it takes three men to hand-forge the larger chains) ‘find it employed in sling chains Hydraulic Machine for Forming the Links. forging a 1%%-inch ship cable. in the rough work of quarrying, The iron is cut to about one-foot lengths, and sev- for lifting heavy…
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