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Example sentences for "clevis"

Lexicographically close words:
cleverer; cleverest; cleverish; cleverly; cleverness; clew; clewed; clewing; clewline; clewlines
  1. When correct brake adjustment is attained, install clevis pin in clevis and brake operating lever with plain washer, and retain with cotter pin.

  2. Saddle and saddle bar can be lifted upward and forward after releasing spring latch (on left side) from groove in clevis pin end and removing clevis pin from saddle bar.

  3. Insert clevis pin from right side and secure with spring latch, making sure that spring is in pin groove.

  4. To remove rear brake rod, disconnect clevis from brake lever, and free front end of rod at brake shaft bell crank.

  5. Turn clevis onto (clockwise) brake rod to shorten rod and take up foot pedal free play.

  6. The bell crank is connected to rear brake operating lever by means of the rear brake rod with adjustable clevis end.

  7. Insert lower end of control wire through clamp nut, then through clevis and back through clamp nut again.

  8. It may be done with one team, by simply changing the gauge of the clevis every time round, gauging it light for the first furrow, and deep for the second.

  9. Reconnect the brake cables at the cross shaft, adjusting the position of the cable yoke so that the clevis pin can just be inserted in the yoke and cross shaft lever hole when the cable is held just taut enough to remove slack.

  10. This cut illustrates Bear Trap Chain Clevis and Bolt, intended as a substitute for the ring on the end of the trap chain, when desired.

  11. This chain is five feet long and with clevis can be fastened around any log which the trapper will want to use.

  12. The Newhouse bear traps are furnished with bear chain, clevis and bolt, illustrated and described under Newhouse Traps, but briefly described here.

  13. With this clevis a loop can be made around any small log or tree without the trouble of cutting to fit the ring.

  14. The clevis in the two-horse doubletree, or the three-horse evener and the adjusting clevis in the end of the plow-beam with the connecting link will permit a limited adjustment.

  15. The old-fashioned reach with a staple in the rear bench of the first sled and a clevis in the end of the reach is the old-fashioned rig for rough roads in the woods.

  16. Cast-iron fronts usually have a projection in the center for the clevis hitch.

  17. The clevis is rather small, but it's the strongest I could find," Kenwyne said.

  18. Harness rattled, chain and clevis rang, the steam from the toiling animals rose in a thin cloud, and white smears streaked their coats as they strained at the collar.

  19. The independent attachment of the draught clevis to the whiffletree bolt to permit the independent oscillation of the whiffletree without affecting the clevis.

  20. The clevis pin or whiffletree bolt, B, attached to the center of the carriage, C.

  21. To the clevis is attached a draft ring or shackle, to which the horse or team is fastened.

  22. An iron beam-plow with rolling coulter and double clevis 96 54.

  23. On some plows there are only notches in the clevis for holding the ring, they answer the same purpose as holes.

  24. The clevis is also used on some plows to regulate the width of the furrow.

  25. Some plows have a double clevis so that the draft ring may be raised or lowered, or moved to right or left.

  26. So I told him to make a clevis out of it.

  27. Illustration: Bear Chain Clevis and Bolt] This cut illustrates Bear Chain Clevis and Bolt, intended as a substitute for the ring on the end of the trap chain, when desired.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clevis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.