A spike puller is a railroad maintenance of way machine designed to remove rail spikes from ties. The spike puller automates the task of spike removal...
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Rail fastening system (redirect from Rail spike)
commonly called "spikers" (a machine that removes spikes is called a "spike puller"). Splitting of the wood can be limited by pre-boring spike holes or adding...
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loader) Railgrinder Rail heater Rotary snowplow Speedswing Speeder Spike puller Spiker Spiker gauger Tie crane Tie extractor/inserter Tie Spacer Track geometry...
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Paramount Network (redirect from Spike tv)
with the network premiere of WWF Raw. In August 2003, TNN relaunched as Spike TV, which targeted a young adult male audience. From June 2006, the network's...
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replacement became an increasingly mechanical task. The Spike puller replaced men manually prying spikes out of ties. A team of men with tie tongs manually...
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William "Spike" Pratt, played by James Marsters, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt for the television series Buffy the...
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comprised a portable frame (sometimes just a simple log) with many projecting spikes. Wire obstacles ultimately made this type of device obsolete. The invention...
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Harrow (tool) (redirect from Spike harrow)
harrows, tine harrows (including spring-tooth harrows, drag harrows, and spike harrows), chain harrows, and chain-disk harrows. Harrows were originally...
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In stagecraft, a spike is a marking, usually made with a piece of tape (although some theatres use paint pens), put on or around the stage. This marking...
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the knees Pull the tama up with the entire body Catch the ball in the spike by directing the spike underneath the hole in the tama Swing Spike: a variation...
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