When it comes to slings, there are two notable types: round slings and webbing slings. For a beginner, these may seem interchangeable. However, there are significant differences between the two. The most common ones are in terms of weight capacity and flexibility...
Spreader bars and lifting beams are both classified as industrial lifting devices under ASME B30.20, but they work in fundamentally different ways.
Whether you are building a bridge or extracting crude oil, cranes and other rigging hardware is indispensable. This equipment plays a crucial role in many industries, where lifting and moving heavy objects is a common task. Cranes are perhaps the most essential lifting equipment you need, especially when lifting and moving heavy loads.
From construction and shipping to mining and manufacturing, you need rigging equipment everywhere. Without it, you cannot build airplanes or move large shipments from one place to another. Rigging equipment comprises of simple objects like spreader bars and shackles to complex ones like cranes and robotic arms.
Bad rigging does not announce itself. A wire rope sling with a few broken wires, a shackle with a slightly opened body, or a synthetic sling with a faint chemical stain, these rigging problems sit in plain sight on job sites every day.
Rigging is one of the most demanding industrial processes. If often involves lifting and moving (sometimes dismantling) remarkably large objects such as concrete or steel pipes, structural steel elements, building materials, equipment, and even vehicles. As it requires you to use one or more cranes and several ropes, clamps or straps, pulleys, winches, cables, and chain hoists, it requires skill and planning.