Hoist (device)

A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium. The load is attached to the hoist by means of a lifting hook.

Types of hoist

The basic hoist has two important characteristics to define it: Lifting medium and power type. The lifting medium is either wire rope, wrapped around a drum, or load-chain, raised by a pulley with a special profile to engage the chain. The power can be provided by different means. Common means are hydraulics, electrical and air driven motors. Both the wire rope hoist and chain hoist have been in common use since the 1800s, however mass production of an electric hoist did not start until the early 1900s and was first adapted by Germany. A hoist can be built as one integral-package unit, designed for cost-effective purchasing and moderate use, or it can be built as a built-up custom unit, designed for durability and performance. The built-up hoist will be much more expensive, but will also be easier to repair and more durable. Package units were once regarded as being designed for light to moderate usage, but since the 60s this has changed. Built-up units are designed for heavy to severe service, but over the years that market has decreased in size since the advent of the more durable packaged hoist. A machine shop or fabricating shop will use an integral-package hoist, while a Steel Mill or NASA would use a built-up unit to meet durability, performance, and repairability requirements. NASA has also seen a change in the use of package hoists. The NASA Astronaut training pool, for example, utilizes cranes with packaged hoists.

Come Along

Come Along may refer to:

  • "Come Along", song by Elvis Presley from the album Frankie and Johnny
  • Come Along, 2001 album by Swedish singer Titiyo
  • "Come Along" (Titiyo song), title track from above album by Titiyo
  • Come-A-Long is a mechanical, pulling device.
  • See also

  • "Come Along, John, an alternative title for the American song "Walk Along John", written for the blackface minstrel show stage in 1843
  • Come Along, 1990 song by "Salty Dog"
  • Come Along Now (album), album by Greek singer Despina Vandi
  • "Come Along Now", 2004 title song by Phoebus featuring Despina Vandi
  • Come Along (Titiyo song)

    "Come Along" is a single and title track from Titiyo's album of the same name. In 2001 the song reached the first place in GLF and, according to Billboard, became the most played song on Sveriges Radio. The song received a Grammis award for "Song of the year 2001" and a Rockbjörnen award for "Swedish song of the year 2001".

    The song was included in the soundtrack for the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels and was covered by Vicci Martinez. The official music video was released on YouTube by Diesel Music AB on December 8, 2011.

    Reception

    Dave Thompson from AllMusic wrote, that the song "sets the scene, a sultry post-blues number infused with just enough of Titiyo's trademark dance sensibility to mask (but never bury) the distinctly PJ Harvey-esque feel of the song itself". Mila Kravchuk from Ukrainian music website @music noted: "We fell in love with this sluggish blues melody, stretching like a molasses, with equal, rhythmic stresses. [...] It's as if this tune was brought from the old gramophone record by Robert Johnson".

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    Come Again

    by: Ntm

    REFRAIN
    Pour que ça sonne funk
    Laisse-moi sampler du funk
    Tout d'abord, une première mise au point
    Un simple rappel
    Je ne suis en aucun cas politicien
    Tout au plus chroniqueur, simple reporter
    Tuant dans l'?uf le virus de la rumeur
    Ceci étant dit, là n'est pas mon seul hobby
    Je suis aussi fier de faire partie de la clique
    Des MC's au style atypique, qui choque
    Vivant au rythme de la musique de notre époque
    Le rythme est soûl, jazz ou funkadéklic
    Je glisse mes rimes dessus de façon magnifique
    C'est clair, Je dirais même c'est limpide
    Comme une coupure Kool Shen, come again come
    REFRAIN
    Systématiquement pris par l'envie
    D'un instant funky
    Non pas de facétie
    Mais plutôt de la basse
    Un riddim qui tabasse
    Manettes à fond, ça décrasse
    Et crée de l'espace
    C'est la thérapie que je suis de puis tout petit
    Sans comprendre, j'en étais déjà épris
    J'en avait déjà l'envie
    Ne me doutant pas que ceci tracerait ma vie
    Me permettant d'échapper à l'ennui
    J'en ai pour toute une vie, so funky
    Qui, qui je suis ?
    Quoi ! Vous ne m'avez toujours pas remis ?
    Moi, gardien de sa survie pour toute la décennie
    Moi, contre la perfidie qui jette le discrédit
    L'infra-soul, l'infra-jazz, l'infra-funk
    Vous avez dit funk ?
    Et là je reviens comme un tank
    Sur ce groove qui tonne
    Voici le new gorgon
    Quoiqu'il advienne
    Il come and again come
    REFRAIN
    Mais quoi ? Quoi, qu'entends-je ?
    D'où veinent ces critiques comme quoi le sample serait le sida de la musique
    Diagnostic morbide anachronique et stupide
    Emanant sûrement d'un looser marqué par les rides
    Bon, trêve de plaisanterie, je veux du funk
    Je veux que ça swingue hardcore, si possible
    Donc mettez de côté le côté borné qui vous caractérise
    Le rap est un bol d'air pur, un coup de brise phénoménal
    Un coup de fouet monumental
    Deux cas de figure, bien sûr, le bien le mal
    Certains critiquent, d'autres plus malins prennent nos techniques
    Même Mick Jagger a fait un hit avec un funky beat
    Alors qui conteste et qui change de bord ?
    A l'heure où des rock-stars évitent la mise à mort
    Grâce notamment à l'apport du sampler dès lors
    Le Hip Hop prend sa place et se révèle encore
    Beaucoup plus créatif dans tous les domaines
    Que ce soit des textes free ou des textes à thème
    J'aime quand la mélodie m'amène sur des rythmes funky comme




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