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A pike pole is a long metal-topped wooden, aluminium or fiberglass pole used for reaching, hooking and/or pulling on another object. They are variously used in boating, construction, logging, rescue and recovery, power line maintenance, and firefighting."Tools of the Trade: Firefighting Hand Tools and Their Use", PennWell Books, 1997,
Chapter 5, "Poles"
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The pole's original use in the fire service was to pull down walls and neighboring buildings to stop a fire's spread. Modern firefighting pike poles are usually of fiberglass, between 4 feet to 12 feet long, and used to search for fires hidden behind walls and ceilings, to pull items from intense heat and flames, and to ventilate structures by breaking windows. Pike poles are routinely used by firefighters as part of fire operations known as "overhaul". The design of a Pike Pole allows for the pole to be inserted with force into a wall or ceiling and the pole rotated, allowing the hook to grab and pull down large piece of drywall or lath and plaster and exposing wall cavities that may contain fire or hot spots following initial suppression activities. Also known as a ''ceiling hook'', the pike pole is the 'hook' referred to in ' hook and ladder' truck. Although modernized to be made of more durable materials such as fiberglass, the overall design and functionality of a pike pole has remained relatively unchanged despite many other advancements in overhaul operations including positive pressure ventilation and the use of thermal imaging cameras.
In construction pike poles (pick pole, spike pole) are used to lift the sides of timber framed structures, as in
In the past, pike poles were used for ice fishing, known as ''bagrenye ryby'' ( "fish pike-poling"; '' bagor'' means "pike pole" in Russian). A number of ethnographers note that this way was specific to the Ural River. When fish starts to hybernate, fisherman ''
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Chapter 5, "Poles"
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Uses
The pole's original use in the fire service was to pull down walls and neighboring buildings to stop a fire's spread. Modern firefighting pike poles are usually of fiberglass, between 4 feet to 12 feet long, and used to search for fires hidden behind walls and ceilings, to pull items from intense heat and flames, and to ventilate structures by breaking windows. Pike poles are routinely used by firefighters as part of fire operations known as "overhaul". The design of a Pike Pole allows for the pole to be inserted with force into a wall or ceiling and the pole rotated, allowing the hook to grab and pull down large piece of drywall or lath and plaster and exposing wall cavities that may contain fire or hot spots following initial suppression activities. Also known as a ''ceiling hook'', the pike pole is the 'hook' referred to in ' hook and ladder' truck. Although modernized to be made of more durable materials such as fiberglass, the overall design and functionality of a pike pole has remained relatively unchanged despite many other advancements in overhaul operations including positive pressure ventilation and the use of thermal imaging cameras.
In construction pike poles (pick pole, spike pole) are used to lift the sides of timber framed structures, as in barn raising
A barn raising, also historically called a raising bee or rearing in the U.K., is a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community. Barn raising was particular ...
and utility poles. In log driving they are called rafters' hooks and are used to maneuver floating logs.
In lumbering they are used to control logs floating on a river in a log drive and constructing log rafts. Pike poles used in log rafting were originally made of wood, typically spruce or fir. In the mid-1960s they began to be made of aluminum tubing plugged with a wooden knob to maintain buoyancy. Specialized logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.
Logging is the beginning of a supply chain ...
tools of similar appearance are peavey and cant hook.
Pike poles are also used for rescue work to grab people or objects floating in high and rough waters.
Linemen use pike poles to maintain power lines. In the early days of line construction pike poles were used to stand up the utility poles.
The tool can also be used in salvage events in such things as constructing water chutes to displace water.
Pike pole fishing
In the past, pike poles were used for ice fishing, known as ''bagrenye ryby'' ( "fish pike-poling"; '' bagor'' means "pike pole" in Russian). A number of ethnographers note that this way was specific to the Ural River. When fish starts to hybernate, fisherman ''artel
An artel (russian: арте́ль) was any of several types of cooperative associations and (later) corporate enterprises in the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union. They began centuries ago but were especially prevalent ...
s'' in large numbers put pike poles into ice holes in places known for big fish to crowd, so that a dense forest is made of pike poles. When drifting fish hits a pole, a fisherman feels this and pulls the catch out.
The 1835 Russian ''Encyclopedic Lexicon'' describes a tradition of Ural Cossacks
The Ural Cossack Host was a cossack host formed from the Ural Cossacks – those Eurasian cossacks settled by the Ural River. Their alternative name, Yaik Cossacks, comes from the old name of the river.
They were also known by the names:
*Rus ...
ice fishing for sturgeon
Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretace ...
. The pike-pole ice fishing of sturgeon was traditionally allowed some time after the Orthodox
Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to:
Religion
* Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...
Christmas. On the day of ''bagrenye'', the Cossacks would break the river ice at the known sturgeon hibernating
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species. Hibernation is a seasonal heterothermy characterized by low body-temperature, slow breathing and heart-rate, and low metabolic rate. It most ...
locations, and pull out the disturbed fish with the pike poles. A successful Cossack would sometimes catch as many as 50 sturgeon. Occasionally a beluga was caught, and pulled out by a crowd. Only active-duty Cossacks were allowed to take part in this enterprise.
Compare this with gaff fishing.
Pike poles in heraldry
InHeraldry
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branch ...
pike poles are seen with all heraldry possible colors.
Fet
The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of current in a semiconductor. FETs (JFETs or MOSFETs) are devices with three terminals: ''source'', ''gate'', and ''drain''. FETs contr ...
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File:Kontiolahti.vaakuna.svg, Kontiolahti FI
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File:DEU Marktrodach COA.svg, Marktrodach
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File:Orpund-coat of arms.svg, Orpund CH (mit Flößerpaddel)
File:AUT Palfau COA.jpg, Palfau
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File:Wappen Landkreis Schwaebisch Hall.svg, Schwäbisch Hall, LKr. DE (mit Kesselhaken der Saline)
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File:Suodenniemi.vaakuna.svg, Suodenniemi
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File:Wappen Villingendorf.svg, Villingendorf DE
Flößermuseum Unterrodach
See also
* Cant hook * Pike (weapon), specificallyGoedendag
A goedendag (Dutch for "good day"; also rendered godendac, godendard, godendart, and sometimes conflated with the related plançon) was a weapon originally used by the militias of Medieval Flanders in the 14th century, notably during the Franc ...
* Guisarme
* Boat hook
Notes
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