A bosun's chair (or boatswain's chair) is a device used to suspend a person from a rope to perform work aloft. Originally just a short plank or swath...

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furniture design history Bosun's chair, a device used to suspend a person from a rope to perform work aloft Brewster Chair, a style of upright, turned...

Once ladders have been erected, the next stage is usually to suspend a bosun's chair (a strong wooden plank on which the steeplejack can sit, pull themselves...

to tie her to a small wooden chair before drawing the noose around her neck", and that "she was hanged in a bosun's chair". Ellis resigned from his post...

the other, even after tightening. The knot can be used as a makeshift Bosun's chair. It is tied in a way that is similar to regular bowlines. Click on a...

to provide a toe hold in the middle of a rope; to make an emergency bosun's chair; and to create an upper rope "block" to make a crude purchase by threading...

window-cleaning cradles (UK) or gondolas (elsewhere in Europe). Bosun’s chair/boatswain’s chair — A single-person seat designed for controlled descent of rope...

sphere at the top of the building. While Dibnah was working from his bosun's chair, a public relations officer at the Town Hall informed Dibnah that BBC...

Portuguese bowline, i.e. a bowline with two loops that can be used as a bosun's chair. A different knot is however also known as a French bowline. This form...

penalties for violations such as talking and crossing the water line. Bosun's chair – Seat used to suspend a person working at height Henry Trengrouse –...

Sierra Nevada. Chow-Ping saves Abe's life when he almost falls from a bosun's chair while setting dynamite to construct a shelf along a cliff face. In March...

the swim, getting his passport stamped. He entered the water from the bosun's chair, signaling the start of the swim, and finished on Felixstowe beach,...

View from a bosun's chair towards the ship decks of two slightly different Oceanis Clipper 411, from a height of around 15 m, the full mast height of...

highly secure anchor, or a particularly solid handhold or foothold. bosun's chair A type of larger harness to give a climber relief from bearing a constant...

onto the standing part of the rope. This knot can serve as a makeshift Bosun's chair. For an unconscious person one loop is placed around the arm pits and...

Maintaining the outside of the mast is typically performed using a bosun's chair. The mast has always had a series of red aircraft warning lights but...

Wilson and Miss Perkins, the four of them cross the forty-foot gap by bosun's chair. Guest starring Paul Russell (Derek). 9 9 "The Fancy Dress Night" 5...

the portledge), belaying over long pitch lengths (often meriting a bosun's chair and grigris), and setting up long and complex abseils (e.g. for any...

Devils Well was explored by the brothers Bill and Bob Wallace, using a bosun's chair attached by a steel cable to a hand winch. The distance from the entrance...

at this stage that Newby almost kills himself by not attaching his bosun's chair correctly. He also has to undertake horrific jobs like cleaning the...

Ascension Island Bosun, the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Tupolev Tu-14 bomber Bosun (dinghy), a type of sailing dinghy Bosun's chair, a type of harness...

sails, sail repair, line and cable splicing repair equipment, fenders, bosun chair, spare blocks, tools, and other equipment. The name derives from the...

and constructed a makeshift backyard antenna tower that included a bosun's chair for hoisting himself up and down its length, to the concern of neighbors...

position to engage, or disengage, the enemy ships. bosun bosun's call bosun's chair bosun's pipe bosun's whistle bottlescrew A device for adjusting tension...

lifeboat founders, but some men in life jackets are rescued. Meanwhile, a bosun's chair goes back and forth between the sinking vessel and the rescue ship....

dream". NBC News. Retrieved 15 June 2022. "Chinese laborers did not use bosun's chairs and hanging wicker baskets in the railroad construction at Cape Horn"...

when she was 13. Another girl was raised 7.7 metres in the air in a bosun's chair on a sailing boat and left there for 2.5 hours. A male former pupil...

Either way, a line was secured between ship and shore, and either a bosun's chair or a breeches buoy was attached to the line (again, accounts differ)...