Is there another "REAL" name for a come-along? I called a hardware store and they did not know what that was? Either the guy is real dumb, or else there is a more "technical" name for them. That's what I have always called them.
Try "hoist" the only name I've ever used is Come along....chain block to me means slightly different device....I have a wire-rope come along that I used for pulling engines thing is so old...still works
Thanks for the reply. It is 13 years since the original post and we are having a memorial service for the OP. Since he did not know the name of the equipment, he just bought a pulley and clothes line to use to lift his mother's Grand piano up to the 14th floor of her apartment building.
He got the piano almost to the top when he wrapped the clothesline around his arm for security but the heavy piano came down and lifted the OP up and flung him to the street when he hit the 14th floor and the rope broke. The piano does not sound as good now either.
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