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anchorage ballast bank barrel beams beaver mats bight Blackwall Hitch block boats bolts bottom Bowline building built butts cables camp Carrick Bend clove hitch construction cotter pins Court of Honor crib diagonal braces diameter double Double Sheet Bend double-lock bridge erected fastening feet long Fisherman's Bend floor fore guys frame frapping turns goose-necks gudgeon pin half hitch hauling hitch fig horizontal inches inclined member knot fig laid lashing ledger poles legs lengths of slings load lock logs loop loose lower material Merit Badge method needle-beam Overhand knot pamphlet passed pieces pier piles Pioneering placed planks platforms pole scaffolds position reef knot rest roadway Rolling Hitch Running Bowline secured Shack sheaves Sheet Bend Short Splice shown in figure side sill span Spar Bridges standards sticks stream supporting power tackle Timber hitch towers trek cart trestle U. S. Engineer Field Unlay upper upright usually weight