Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. [holding and gripping tools]
8. pincers
9. grapples

Anotations

Scope note:

Devices for carrying lightweight tree trunks, telephone poles and similar. The version designed for two persons consists of a pair of hinged chisel-bill hooks used as pincers mounted on pivots at the middle of a wooden pole, which is grasped at either side of the object being carried. The weight of the log forces the hooks to sink into the wood. There are verions for single-person operation with a number of interconnected levers between handle and hooks and is used for carrying relatively short pieces.