skyhook

Those who yearn for skyhooks call those who eagerly settle for cranes "reductionists", and they can often make reductionism seem philistine and heartless.

To each bolt attach a short length of chain and then run the individual chains to another large one that is run up to the skyhook, which is nothing more than a ratchet cable winch held by an overhead rafter.

[…] despite the absence of the proverbial home-grown 75-foot high steel "sky hook."

Tom bought the rights to a plastic board that had a skateboard deck and skyhooks.