Posted by arthur p. bloom on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 at 2:47PM :
In Reply to: So... posted by Dana on Monday, May 24, 2004 at 11:30PM :
Funny you say that! Just today, I went over to the next town with my neighbor, to help him bring his 26 foot live-aboard tugboat around to his dock. While I was waiting around for the marina to drop it in the water, I asked one of the old guys working there about the stiff-leg crane. I said "Is that a gin-pole, or an A-frame?" He said "That's a gin pole. An A-frame is the kind of thing that you used to see on the front of those old trucks called Power Wagons."
So naturally the next thing out of my mouth was "Do you have a Power Wagon?" He said "Nah, I had a couple but I sold them a while back." Ya never know.
apb