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These 30ft 9-part slings are made with 2-1/2" wire rope that has been braided for optimal performance and flexibility. They're perfect for critical lifts in demanding work environments. 9 parts of 2-1/2” has a finished body diameter of 10 inches! This size braided sling has a vertical hitch capacity rating of 434.8 tons (869,600 lbs.) and a basket hitch capacity of 869.6 tons (1,739,200 lbs.) When working with slings of this size, the wire rope is too stiff for one person to splice the sling alone, and the weight of the sling itself requires lifting equipment just to move them around the shop. Luckily, we know some people who are well-equipped to help with lifting needs and know-how ?? When you need to Trust the Lift, trust Bishop Lifting! #LiftingSolutions #RiggingEquipment #TrusttheLift
Wear pads are important for protecting slings against abrasion and sharp corners. Here's a demo of one of our most popular options: nylon sleeves with Velcro! Remember when selecting your wear pad that you need to upsize. For example, on this 2" sling we used a 4" wear pad. With stitching and Velcro, part of the wear pad is unusable, thus the need to upsize. Customers love these Velcro pads because they're easy to put on and remove after you've started rigging, and it's easy to slide along the sling for additional positioning precision. Then it stays in place once you get going, which is great for keeping your team's hands out of the danger zone during lift. #Slings #LiftingSolutions #TrusttheLift
Flemished eyes are preferred in professional rigging shops because they have inherent reserve capacity, even if there's an issue with the swage fitting. The same cannot be said for turnback/duplex sleeves. Not sure what we're talking about? Watch this video where we test a Flemished sling with unpressed eyes, and you'll understand. PLEASE NOTE: We would never provide our customers with unpressed slings, and you should NEVER rig with them. This test is for demonstration purposes only. Even unpressed, with no swage sleeve, the eye will withstand a surprisingly high load. Let's find out what happens... As we applied tension, the strands started to choke on themselves and bound tighter and tighter until they reached a point of failure and pulled out of the splice. This is as expected. (Also, the large D/d ratio in this test yielded a good result — we wrapped the eyes directly around the main test bed pins, which are appx. 4" in diameter). With a 5:1 safety factor, properly swaged, this sling "should" fail at 25,000 lbs. So, when we achieved 85% of the expected breaking strength in this test (21,300 lbs.), we demonstrated that the Flemished eye has its own reserve capacity apart from the swage sleeve. (To reiterate: this is only a test, NEVER rig with a sling that is unpressed.) This demonstrates why you should always use Flemished sleeves if possible. Rigging with turnback sleeves can be done safely, but again, with no actual splice taking place, they are not as safe as Flemished sleeves. Please always inspect your slings before use and adhere to industry standards and best practices. Thanks for staying safe out there! #BreakTest #WireRope #TrusttheLift
If you've ever spliced a Flemished eye (also known as a Molly Hogan splice, and it's our standard mechanical splice), you know that success is in the details. Once the Flemished eye is fully braided into place, the final step is to swage the sleeve. A Flemished eye relies on a swage sleeve to hold the tails in place, so positioning the tails fully inside the sleeve (up to the taper) is critical. When working with compacted or even large diameter wire rope, technique matters, because the wire rope doesn’t always play nice. When finishing the splice, you must be mindful that the ends of the splice: - terminate at the right spot for your desired eye size; - lie flat against the body (live line) of the wire rope; - are evenly distributed; - are equal in length. Then when you knock the swage sleeve into place — such that the ends go all the way to where the taper starts — the sleeve will compress well against the internal wires only if everything is even. When you get it right, no wires appear crushed or pushed out of place. The tails should lay evenly, which results in a strong, secure eye splice. Swage and tag it, then put it to work. Trust the Lift ?? #WireRope #LiftingSolutions #TrusttheLift
This is a Sliding Choker Sling for lifting — don't confuse it with a Logging Choker! A logging choker is not appropriate for lifting. A sliding choker like this one is built to industry standards to be safe for overhead lifting. We just put this one together for the demo, but when we do one for an order, it's affixed with the proper tag just like any other lifting sling. If there's no tag, don't lift with it! Sliding choker slings usually are used to lift pipes, beams, or other items without easy pick points. They are made with a large eye on one end (which connects to the hoisting hook), and a smaller eye on the other end (which connects to the sliding choker hook on the body of the sling). For this demo, we lifted a wire rope master spool, even though we usually move these around the shop with our forklift and there are specialty spool lifting devices available, too. We had to pick something heavy enough to properly cinch up because the sling is rather stiff, being 3/4" wire rope. #LiftingEquipment #Crane #TrusttheLift
These 1-1/8” x 95’ BLP-500 model Swage Socket lines coiled up and ready to ship. Each socketed line was made with Wireco domestic wire rope (double yellow strands) and Crosby S-502 Closed Swage sockets. Each Proof tested to 26 tons with test certs uploaded to our TessaLink system. How do you store and retrieve your test certs? #LiftingSolutions #SwageSockets #TrusttheLift
We run into a lot of riggers who don't know this: Although machinery eye bolts are rated for angular lifts, they suffer from significant capacity reduction quickly as the angle increases. Once you hit 90 degrees, you're down to a 75% Working Load Limit (WL) reduction. This means you only get 25% of your original capacity. For example, if you start with a machinery (shouldered) eye bolt with a stated Working Load Limit of 8,000 pounds in a straight/vertical pull, when you load that same eye bolt at 90 degrees, your WLL drops to a whopping 2,000 pounds. Side note: Non-shouldered eye bolts are not rated for angular loading at all, and never should be used for angular lifts. Before Crosby and a few other manufacturers came up with some clever new engineering, the swivel hoist ring was your best option for 100% WLL in angular lifts. But these days, we have another option that provides your full WLL at 90 degrees — the Slide-Loc. It's what we call a "hybrid" lifting product. On the Slide-Loc, you retain the full WLL, even at that 90-degree loading. These are super easy to install, a very safe product, and they're very affordable — sitting in between the cost of a regular eye bolt and something more expensive like a swivel hoist ring. #EyeBolts #LiftingSolutions #TrusttheLift
Orange polyester tubing was added to the body of these 2-ply polyester web slings to bring an extra layer of abrasion resistance to protect the yellow polyester webbing during lifts. The slings are likely being used to lift pipe in a repetitive lifting application, so the orange tubing will extend the life of these slings. #RiggingSupplies #LiftingSolutions #TrusttheLift