This was a poser, for with the fall of the foremast the derricks for working the fore-hold had also been carried away.
For a moment Peter was under the impression that one of the foremostderricks had carried away and crashed athwart the roof of the cabin.
The ship was of about 7000 tons, single funnelled, and with two stumpy masts with telescopic topmasts and a sheaf of derricks to each.
A small engine and more derricks were now landed, and with them came three masons, who in June laid the corner-stone of the lighthouse.
Engines are puffing, ropes are tugging and derricks lifting heavy freight of every kind to the ship's deck, the orders of the stevedore and the answers of his men mingling with the general din.
Huge hulks they clutched from this underworld, heaved up with enormous derricks and crashed out on the upper land.
Again the derricks ground, as slowly, steadily, accurately, they swung each beam to its place.
Then I started for home on the run, to get me derricks and stuff.
The trees had long since fallen before the fiery blast; the derricks and buildings of the adjacent wells were consumed, while inch by inch the oil-fed fire crept nearer the town.
By this time the conversation ceased, owing to Ralph's interest in the scenery around him, and the curious combination of oil-tanks and derricks with which the landscape was profusely dotted.
At Summerland there is a veritable forest of oil derricks stretching along the beach, many of them in the surf and even at sea far beyond the low tide mark.
They were in the oil field now and gaunt derricks tapered to the sky to right and left of them.
What else can be said of a town with derricks built through its front porches and even the graveyard leased to a drilling company?
The process of crushing was as follows: The stone from the pile was loaded by hand into scale-boxes which were lifted by two derricks into the chute above the No.
These derricks were set on elevated trestles near the Erie Railroad sidings.
B] Assuming that the scrap value of derricks and engines is one-half the cost, crushers one-third the cost, and other items nothing.
At Manhattan, these materials were unloaded on trucks by an overhead traveler, and teamed to the shaft, where they were unloaded by derricks into the bins.
At Weehawken Shaft, on 10-hour shifts: 3 Engineers on derricks and locomotives.
The Manhattan derricks were a pair of steel ones with 39-ft.
When the scale-boxes arrived at the shaft they were lifted from the trucks by derricks and dumped into the bins.
He told us that we had taken the wrong turn and directed us on our way, past the tall derricks and northeast to Tulare.
When we left Bakersfield we saw just outside the town a perfect forest of oil derricks towering into the air, some of the wells being new ones, others having been abandoned.
It stands there now, more lonely than Empire City--its derricks and machinery rusting and dropping to pieces, the houses empty and neglected, the land relapsing into its old condition of bog and marsh.
The smoke of the light-cruiser and dozen destroyers which had met the Renown at sea and escorted her to anchorage, drifted in the heavy air, blurring the cranes and derricks of the inner harbour.
Oil underlies the pitch in the vicinity and a forest of derricksrises a quarter of a mile away.
The jack staff had long ago been carried away; the spars and derricks were housed below, and a large portion of the forward roof was already missing.
Then one of the steamer's derricks was slung outboard with a rope sling suspended and half a dozen men laid on to the line attached to the boat.
Already the awnings had been taken in, spars and loose gear made fast, derricks secured, and ports screwed down.
Down in the cuttings I could see my mates toiling amidst the broken earth, the sharp ledges of hewn rock, and the network of gang-planks and straining derricks that rose all around them.
Remember how Mr. Gordon used to rave over so many derricks on an acre?
Bob agreed that the groceryman was a living example of the Golden Rule, and then the sight of oil derricks in the distance changed the trend of their thoughts.
The north section is shut off from the others, and it's backed up against the furthest end of that perfect forest of derricks we saw the first time we went to Uncle Dick's wells--remember?
The Rio Negro was old and ugly, with short iron masts from which clumsy derricks hung, tall, upright funnel, and blistered, gray paint.
One who ventured a protest, however, stopped in awkward embarrassment when Adam gave him a look, and the others soon admitted that few captains knew more about derricks and slings.
Then you can tell Mayne to rig his derricks and take the hatches off.
The heat got suffocating and the slant of masts and deck made matters worse, because the men must hold the derricks back with guys while the heavy goods cleared the coamings of the hatch.
Arriving at the dock, the buckets were lifted by electrically-operated stiff-leg derricks and their contents deposited on scows for final disposal.
The work was attacked at several places simultaneously, and the spoil was hoisted by derricks located at convenient points along the side of the cut.
Two styles of hay derricks are used to stack alfalfa hay in Idaho.
Soon the Ledge loomed up in all its proportions, with its huge rim of circular masonry lying on the water line like a low monitor rigged with derricks for masts.
Half an hour more, and the four great derricks would be anchored safe against any contingency.
And are those the big derricks you had so much trouble over?
On account of its position, which necessitated the bearing of its own strain and that of the other three derricks as well, its outboard seaward guy was as heavy as that of a ship's anchor-chain.
Captain Joe watched the changing sky where hour by hour were placarded the bulletins of the impending outbreak, and redoubled his efforts on the lines of the watch-tackles at which the men were tugging, pulling the derricks to their places.
It was six o'clock when the four derrickswere again fairly erect.
Loud creaks could be heard as the links of the chain untwisted and the derricks turned on their rusty pintles.
Sanford was across the disk, some fifty feet from Captain Joe, studying the effect of the increased strain on the outboard guys of the three derricks already placed.
Two boat derricksfrom the cruiser served as gate posts at the entrance of the school playground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derricks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
