Tag: pulleys

Don’t Wait for Spring Thaw to Plan Your Outdoor Awning Installation

Even though it’s too soon to call winter officially over, it’s not too soon to start thinking about awning installation season. Once the snow starts to melt off the roof and the deck flooring begins to emerge from beneath the frost, our thoughts turn to long summer...

Storing Your Holiday Decorations When Space is Tight

Remember how much fun it was pulling out all those holiday decorations? Stringing up all those lights? Hanging the huge wreath on the front door? What about that life-sized sleigh and reindeer that you just had to put on the front lawn? It doesn’t seem possible, but...

Got Milk? Then You Also Need Stainless!

The rapidly growing popularity of small, local makers of food and dairy products means that there are a growing number of customers who need to upgrade their farm equipment to meet strict codes enforced by the dairy industry. Also, more and more people want to know...

The Role of Hardware in Keeping Us Healthy

Hardware can keep you healthy. How? Do you work out at a gym? Do you use the weight room area, using the gym’s lat pulldown machine, or similar weight training equipment? Or do you take a Pilates class and use the Pilates reformer? Both of these types of physical...

How a Pulley Works

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...