Wire rope slings are an important piece of rigging hardware used in lifting and hoisting operations and are the most frequently used type of slings in the industry today. Wire rope slings are widely ...

Terry Young, president of Construction Safety Experts, in the US, discusses identification, inspection and removal criteria for wire rope slings. The ASMEB30.9-2006 ...

Sorry. I just had to laugh at the word "easily" there. It is easy if you're Superman ... or Jimmy the Jet. Not if you're Chuck the Reporter, able to crush aluminum beer cans (with a lot of effort) and ...

The use of synthetic rope as an alternative to wire rope for crane and rigging operations gathers greater pace as Austrian rope manufacturer Teufelberger and Swiss-headquartered equipment manufacturer ...

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