Field operations and elementary motor vehicle engineering lectures (1919)
United States. Motor transport corps. [from old catalog] · Washington, D.C. [Govt. print. off.] · leaf 93
itlav up a--i, the adjoininj-- .strand of A, a-3 and b-o aie left lyinu;beside each other without beino- unlaid. We now lia\c three pairs ofstiands at ditierent points of the rope, lie^innino- with a-2 and h-l(for exani[)le) separate each strand, overhand knot these to<rether andtuck them as in… … I.—Loiip splii half of each strand is trimmed ot! smooth as.are the end- of the otherhalves after they have been tucked. Rope is measured by its circumference. A four-strand rope is aboutone-fifth weaker than a three-.strand one. Blocks should be at leastthree times the size of the rope which it is…
United States. Army · Automobiles, Military
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