Water Weights?: The Versatile Solution for Load Testing Challenges

Unique Group’s Water Weights? has emerged as the preferred choice in industries such as construction, offshore, and marine applications due to their versatility and convenience in load testing. They offer a safer alternative to traditional solid weights and are widely used to test cranes, lifting equipment, davits, lifeboats, and various other structures.

Transportability is a significant benefit offered by the bags. When empty, they are lightweight and portable, making them highly convenient for transporting to work sites and reducing logistical costs compared to traditional weights.

Water Weights? also boasts a reduced environmental impact without the use of multiple truck and trailer loads on our highways when mobilizing, and ancillary lifting equipment during staging. Its simple setup and staging process saves downtime for equipment under test.?Not to mention you won’t have all the traffic on your busy worksite loading and unloading during staging. The bags also increase overall efficiency, allowing for multiple test loads by simply filling or dumping the water and rigging only once.

Introduced in 1979 for load testing lifting equipment in the offshore oil platforms of the North Sea, Water Weights? quickly gained widespread acceptance. Their adoption in the offshore industry was driven by the need for a reliable, transportable, and cost-effective load-testing solution. As a result, their use expanded beyond offshore platforms, finding applications in industries such as construction, marine, and others requiring load testing of lifting equipment and structures.

Unique Group provides rental, sales, and complete turnkey options for Water Weights?, ensuring flexibility for users. Availability in multiple sizes ensures suitability for different applications and precise load testing requirements.

Maintaining safety and reliability is a top priority for Unique Group. Thorough inspection and testing of the Water Weights? are conducted before each use, ensuring adherence to the highest standards.

The bags find extensive application in the marine industry, where they are used to load test cranes, A-frames, lifeboats, davits, winches, bollards, ramps, elevators, ladders, and gangways. In the industrial sector, they play a crucial role in load testing overhead bridge and gantry cranes, mobile lattice and hydraulic cranes, load beams, spreader bars, elevators, catwalks, jibs, monorails, and loose lifting equipment. Water Weights? also finds valuable applications in engineering for floor and bridge testing, ballast and counterweight systems, water and liquid storage, and berms. These applications ensure structural integrity, functionality, and safety in buildings, bridges, and infrastructure projects.

Safety is paramount in load testing, and Unique Group ensures a physically proven factor of safety exceeding 6:1 with its bags. By gradually applying the load during testing, any issues are identified before reaching the proof load condition, thereby minimizing the risk of equipment damage, and ensuring personnel safety. The bags can be hung individually or in combination to achieve a wide range of capacities on a single rig. Moreover, specialized "low headroom" bags are available to facilitate testing in restricted spaces. Filling the bags while suspended from the crane hook effectively avoids floor-loading issues.

Unique Group's Water Weights? prioritizes simplicity in their design. They incorporate manifold and valve systems for controlled filling and emptying, allowing for precise load adjustments and modifications during the load testing process.

To ensure accuracy and compliance, Unique Group's Water Weights? employs certified load cells or flowmeters to verify the proof load. Additionally, the water-filled proof load bags are accompanied by inspection certificates, providing comprehensive certification and documentation for compliance purposes.

The company’s safety culture was borne of constant risk identification and a long-standing commitment to collaboration with customers. Their Integrated Management Systems are certified to ISO 9001, 45001, and 14001 Standards. Highly important when talking about safety, environment, and efficiency in the industry.

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