Combined Ladder and Derrick.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 181, 4 December 1886, Page 2

Combined Ladder and Derrick.

Tins contrivance, of which we give an illustrative cut, is one that fanners w ould often find most useful. It is often necessary to raise heavy weights off the ground in tho work of a farm, and with this simple apparatus a slaughtered pig 01 bullock can be hung; up by one man with ease and despatch. Very often, too, it is necessary to put some heavy article upon a cart or waggon, such as a plough or other implement ; with the help of this derrick it can be done single handed far quicker than two men could do it without jthia mechanical aid.

Any good, strong ladder Mill answer the purpose. A sloping notch is out into the uppar end of each rail for the pulley axle to slip into. (See above cuts ) A one-inch hole i«: bored through each rail, near the lower end, for a round bar of iron to pa«..-> throusrh. One end of this bar is squaied for a handle. Fasten one end of a tope to the bn'-, pa=s the other over the pulley, and ■with the top of the ladder re&Unir -i^ain-t a beam, crowbar, or -ide of a bi'ildin^, one man can rai»e an enormous ueiiilu. The arrangement for the deril'k dnt-s not In the least impair but rim ply im lea.-^ec- the usefulness ot the ladder If even faim w eic provided with thi- apparatus theic would be much time and laboiu