I am a sailor and we call them shackles. Here in the WV hills they call them a clevis. Sailors call the pin that goes thru the holes a clevis pin. someone has to be wrong! Not much to do on a cold night in the hills!!
Shackles is something we put on our cars back in the 60's
on the leaf springs to raise the rear of our cars....
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GOOGLE said this
The clevis is a U-shaped piece that has holes at the end of the prongs to accept the clevis pin. ... The combination of a simple clevis fitted with a pin is commonly called a shackle, although a clevis and pin is only one of the many forms a shackle may take.
I was a sailor as in Navy but not sailboats. I call them a clevis. After you figure why it's different to a sailor then figure why is it that a rope is a rope until it's used on a boat and then it's a line. Print out your findings and post them on your bulkhead, or is it a wall.
When I was working construction, if it had a pin that slipped in and was held by another pin then it was a Clevis. If the pin had screw threads then it was a Shackle.
AKA. A thing a ming jing. :D
I don't know what the skimmers called them,I was a Uboat sailor .In the construction biz we called them a shackle ,usually made by Crosby .
I've heard them called clevis more commonly, or rarely, screw pin shackles.
clevis here and a bulk head is the front half of a snowmobile and the tunnel is the back half :)
Are local hardware calls them shackle's. A older guy working there said,farmers call them clevis's & construction guys call them shackle's. This Logger call's them clevis's ;D
Quote from: WH_Conley on February 03, 2017, 09:51:56 PM
When I was working construction, if it had a pin that slipped in and was held by another pin then it was a Clevis. If the pin had screw threads then it was a Shackle.
Yup
A clevis would have a half twist with a pin that pushed through. A shackle would be a straight U shape with threaded pin. At least here anyway.
Better be careful with those Navy terms. i worked with a guy one summer who had just gotten out of the USN and he was about ready to fight when I told him to use the come along to close a rail car door. He swore it was a "Clocking hoist" and was sure we were making fun of him. Actually I think the Navy was probably very happy to see his stern leaving.
Quote from: Al_Smith on February 04, 2017, 12:30:53 AM
I don't know what the skimmers called them,I was a Uboat sailor .In the construction biz we called them a shackle ,usually made by Crosby .
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