by Rachel Novak | Feb 9, 2015 | PULLEYS
Pulleys are essential when it comes to using a boat. Whether the vessel is a sailboat or a motor boat, pulleys help sailors sail and owners of motor boats…motor their boats. All clever phrasing aside, boat pulleys: • Help a sailor adjust his sails for maximum lift...
by Rachel Novak | Jan 27, 2015 | PULLEYS
Pulleys are true engineering marvels, even in their simplest form – a single rope running through a wheel – as they allow a human to lift or more a heavy object easily. The simplest of pulleys are known as fixed pulleys. These systems are such that the pulley’s wheel...
by Rachel Novak | Dec 1, 2014 | PRODUCTS, PULLEYS
We use pulleys so that we may lift an object that’s far heavier than we could lift on our own. Sometimes we use a pulley to lift an object that’s so heavy, it takes a mighty large, and multiple-wheeled pulley to lift it. But how does a pulley lift? Why does this...