Block and Tackle
Tackle, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY
Description
A single sheave tackle (moving pulley portion of block and tackle) with ash [?] housing faces and spacers, a turned pulley wheel with rope groove in edge (unable to identify wood as pulley is suspended and lighting is inadequate). Some sort of iron (probably) shaft through the center of the housing serves as an axle for the pulley and as with the block, a whipped length of rope spliced to form a loop hangs from an eye splice in the rope that moves the tackle up and down at the top. At the bottom, the whipped rope surrounds another iron thimble from which a forged hook is suspended by means of a hammer welded eye at the top of the hook.
Notes
The block and tackle is held together as a working unit by a length of approximately 13/16" diameter rope.