A practical field book of ingenuity and advantage that borrows techniques from riggers, sailors, movers, canoeists, porters, truckers, monument builders, masons, Boy Scouts, boat builders, house movers, lumberjacks, farmers, sheet metal workers, stagehands, roustabouts, stevedores, packers, mechanics, and pyramid architects, all of whom knew a thing or two about getting unwieldy loads from the wrong place to the right place. This book presents the tools and the basic procedures to multiply strength and ease burdens, but it also opens a door into the curious workings of the mover's mind, a creatively lazy hotbed of simple dodges that produces something just this side of wizardry.

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