These are easier to work on, requiring less specialised lifting gear.

'There's a vehicle with lifting gear on its way for the lorry.

Steve started lifting gear out of the big sphere.

Shackles would have been mounted on the truck to fit the lifting gear.

Thomas used heavy lifting gear to free his son from the rubble, and was one of five people treated to hospital following the blast.

It was a task that would have tested three men, and the lifting gear was in use elsewhere.

By the early 1960s there was a proliferation of incompatible designs for containers and lifting gear.

Disadvantages include the requirement for divers to work on or near the lifting gear when under load.

Vessels using these would usually have their own lifting gear, but some ports will provide mobile cranes to do this.

This lot's their heavy mob, complete with diving bell and lifting gear.'

He also coordinates the rigging and lifting gear zeevasten.

The detail in the ropes used to lift the roadway show that they are attached to the wooden lifting gear.

It is mechanically more complex, however, requiring the use of a gantry and overhead lifting gear.

The recovery operation was slowed by problems in getting heavy lifting gear to the site which required temporary roads to be constructed.

The long arm carries the lifting gear.

These stations are equipped with lifting gear in order to be able to jack vehicles up and separate the wagon bodies from their undercarriages.

Access equipment can range from a simple stool or step-ladder to complicated mobile hydraulic lifting gear.

Molly is trapped under a beam and has to be released by heavy lifting gear and cutting equipment.

The car was lifted using beams and lifting gear attached to a small hand operated crane located on the footbridge.

Unbalanced attachment of lifting gear may cause the load to be unstable once lifted free of the bottom.

It was possible, of course, that she was referring, for purely symbolic reasons, to a specialized form of lifting gear.

At the height of the rescue operation up to forty five firemen equipped with heavy lifting gear battled to free the injured.

It carries specialised cutting and spreading equipment, lifting gear, supporting tools, and lighting units.

Police frogmen were working hard to get the hooks of the lifting gear dangling from the crane onto secure fixings on the Toyota.

Several fireman, police officers and workmen who had come with the crane, unhooked the lifting gear then slowly righted the car.