on lower slips 36 this is to be contrasted with the upper slips 26 which have the wickers 28 perpendicular to the centerline 14 as shown in fig7 while a design showing upper slips 26 with transverse wickers 28 and lower slips 36 with substantially parallel wickers 50 have been shown in fig5 and 7 it is within the spirit of the invention to provide numerous alternative arrangements of wickers on the slips for example the reverse can be applied with the lower slips 36 having transverse wickers and the upper slips 26 having substantially parallel wickers with respect to the centerline 14 alternatively in a given row of upper slips 26 there can be an alternation of wickers on adjacent slips with one slip 26 having substantially parallel wickers while the next adjacent slip has perpendicular wickers depending on the specific need other sequences can be used such as every other slip on the upper or lower set can be with substantially parallel wickers such as 50 or any other alternating combination as between the upper row such as 26 or the lower row such as 36 by combining in a single tool slips having orientation substantially parallel to the centerline such as 14 as well as slips having wickers perpendicular to the centerline 14 the tool resists uphole or downhole forces from pressures applied below or above as well as torque applied from a mill trying to mill a window in a casing using a whipstock the grip of the slips having wickers that are substantially parallel to the centerline 14 is magnified by the camming action illustrated in fig6 the slip 36 has a base flange 52 which loosely fits.