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A six tonne bundle of hot rolled bar leaves the furnace at around 480 C. The two leg sling on the hook has to hold its rated capacity while the bar ends grind against the links, and it has to show a measurable stretch long before anything breaks. Chain is usually the only sling family that manages ...
Two flatbed drivers called the yard the same morning with the same complaint: the ratchet handle on their new binders bottomed out before the chain came tight, and the load still shifted on the first turn. The binders were not weak. They were the wrong shape for the job. A chain ratchet binder is a...
A 480 kg pump housing has to come off a machining centre, be turned for deburring, and go back onto the fixture. The nearest overhead crane is 7 m away, and the operator has 40 seconds before the next cycle. That is the job a cantilever crane is built for. A cantilever crane carries its load on a b...