An oval shaped, hinged wooden block constructed to encircle and slide along a hawser (fiber rope) through a hole running through the block from end to end. It has two lever type cutting blades operated by force exerted in a bridle line attached to the eyes of each lever. Also equipped with becket spliced to holes in the block and attached to whipline for hauling along hawser and recovery of cutter.
Classification: Handtools (including glass cutters) and parts thereof, nesoi, of basemetal
NSN 6105-00-144-1754
NSN 5925-00-500-9664
NSN 5996-01-530-0722
NSN 6620-00-083-6456
NSN 6220-00-016-2381
NSN 5895-01-398-1057
NSN 5950-01-594-1374
NSN 6240-01-537-1176
NSN 5990-00-991-8723
NSN 5935-00-959-3343
NSN 5998-00-191-1241
NSN 6220-01-642-7798