The anchored end of the drilling line that comes down from the crown block through a fixed sheave at ground level, called a dead-!line anchor, and onto a storage drum. When stringing up the drilling line, the big traveling block is set on the rig floor and the free end of the line is threaded over the crown block and through the traveling block a sufficient number of times to lift the anticipated load with a good margin of safety. The free end is then attached to the draw works drum which is rotated until one layer of the line is spooled on. The traveling block is then hoisted into the derrick. The other end of the threaded or reeved line is the dead line or, one might say, the anchored fine. See Fast Line.
