An old engraving of two men using a parbuckle to raise up a barrel on a ramp. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. A parbuckle is a technique using a double-sling length of rope for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical, heavy object, such as this cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened to a post, and both parts are looped around the object. By hauling on the ropes, the heavy object is raised up a slope or ramp – or lowered down when the rope is paid out. This method was very useful in delivering barrels of beer that needed to be lowered down into pub cellars.
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An old engraving of two men using a parbuckle to raise up a barrel on a ramp. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. A parbuckle is a technique using a double-sling length of rope for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical, heavy object, such as this cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened to a post, and both parts are looped around the object. By hauling on the ropes, the heavy object is raised up a slope or ramp – or lowered down when the rope is paid out. This method was very useful in delivering barrels of beer that needed to be lowered down into pub cellars.