I ve recently up my crane career started with a new company doing rentals. I've gone from a 30 ton boom truck to a linkbelt HTC 8690. I am looking to learn and found you as great awareness information. Thanks for the good work on the videos. Well kept Cranes, love it .
When I started at Dresser mouse traps were unknown. Then OSHA laid down the law. The big hooks were finger breakers for sure. Our biggest shackles were 4". Needed 2 guys per corner. I do miss some of those lifts, but my bones are crumbling. Thanks for the rigging review. Fond memories. Stay safe!
Awesome videos. Thanks for taking the time to make them and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm in excavation so a little different field, but it is the experienced guys like you that are willing to share your knowledge that have helped me so much. Appreciate the time and effort you put into these. Take care
PushinDirt, thank you for the kind words. I will share as much of my limited knowledge that I can. Please don't hesitate to ask questions if you have any. I'll always do my best to answer them. Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
👍 good video! Ironworker here, i work with cranes everyday, and still learned a couple things from your video. We use crosby shackles but i Never knew those lines served a purpose
Great explanation of everything. I'm sure you could give a test in a day or two and most wouldn't pass, but as someone who's been there it was awesome‼️ I'm sure you have some farm boys watching who say that's not a clevis but hey every body's different🤪🤪❗️ As always it was a great video.
Mark Mortensen, I hadn't planned on an educational channel. But, it seems to have turned that way on occasion. So, I'll just roll with it. Lol. Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
That is some heavy duty equipment. Wow. My Dad used to have a big shackle. I wish I would have measured that one. I was similar in size to the bigger ones you showed us. THANKS.
good to show guys safety equipment videos and rigging. I see you have a nice pre engineered shop building. MBCI has liner panels for shop walls. We are a Butler dealer and put up hundreds of metal buildings since 1987. Also Inland coatings has the best liquid rubber roof sealant if any of your buildings have issues. I have and extra Liebherr 85ton block if you need.
That building is just for our two big cranes and their support trucks. Our other building is about a city block long. I'll throw it in a video sometime.
Awesome video! You can really tell how big that stuff is, the pill is huge! 3’ tall lol. And those shackles also I didn’t know the difference between a shackle and clevis thought it was the same thing so thanks for teaching me that! Thanks for sharing
Elite Earthworks LLC, it may actually be taller than 3 feet. I haven't measured it. I know it's big enough that it wouldn't tickle if you walked into it. Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
Great video. You showed a sister hook i was always told you can only attach 2 wire rope or synthetic slings to a regular hook and if you needed more slings you needed to connect to a master link or shackle. How many slings does OSHA or ANSI allow you to attach to a sister hook?
My instructor used to be a crane operator on a heavy lift crew and he got a green rigger that didnt quite get how heavy and stiff thick steel wire rope can be. he tried picking it up to put on the bull horn and giving him credit nearly got it on before it sprang back toppling him over. he soon got demoted to just a workshop on a gantry crane
When rigging those multi-sheave blocks, I'm guessing there's a specific pattern for threading the cable. I would be interested in a discussion of that, if an opportunity arises.
To The Top Crane Well heck, that's cheap at double the price ! Here is my first ten ks for a deposit ! KKKKKKKKKK Will have the other ks when I get there. 😊.
Hey brother .. thanks for sharing all the knowledge and information. You are way appreciated To take the time out of your day to put these videos together for greenhorns like myself just want to say thank you who cares about your artistic ability the knowledge is everything and thanks for passing it on
Fun thing to think of, if there are any newbies in the comment section. All rigging equipment has safety rating, that's means if a shackle, strap, chain or even the crane itself is given a capacity rating. It can have safety rating 1.3 and up to 1:7, than if it has 1 ton rating and SWL rating 1:6 then it will not break until 6 ton even if it is only allowed to lift 1 ton...
Wayne Tharp, choking a piece is used to help keep the piece or rigging from sliding. It can be harder on the rigging if the piece is sharp, or if the rigging is allowed to tighten too fast on itself. Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
Wayne Tharp is correct and if we ever had sharp corners on a load we would soften up the sharp edge with wood or pieces of rubber from old conveyer belt
Josh Welner, that's not stupid. I actually have one that was destroyed on a job. I can make a quick video of it. If I get the chance, I'll try to record something tomorrow. Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
To The Top Crane I think it be good vid as commercial fisherman I like seeing the rigging stuff and how you do things never know when I could use that info
Sandy, the rigging gets replaced if it is damaged, or subjected to abuse. For example, the job with the 126k lb propane tank, the truck hauling the tank got stuck. We sacrificed one of our 20 foot blue straps to pull the truck out. Although the rigging didn't appear to be damaged, we tagged it and removed it from service. Sacrificing a strap is cheaper than a tow and the crane/crew waiting around for a tow truck. Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
That makes sens, thanks for the info Jimmy, always enjoy learning new stuff. Even though as a practical matter it's probably never going to do me much good. But you never know, do you.
Sandy, I think part of the successes of my channel is based on curiosity. People know things are built or lifted, but oftentimes don't know how. So, hopefully I'm shedding some light on the subject. 🙂
Rigging question for you: When rigging with a screw shackle, would you disagree with the practice of tightening the bolt of the shackle all the way, then backing off a quarter turn to prevent over-tightening the bolt when the load is put on it? I’m sure you’ve seen this practice before.
That's a great question and a great debate. I don't agree or disagree with either really. I don't always have a tool at my disposal to break it lose if it does over tighten. I know Crosby recommends tightening all the way and not backing it off. I also know that I was taught to tighten it, then back it off a little. I do both, depending on the situation. I have never seen a shackle pin in a situation that it could unscrew itself the 10 or so turns that it requires to remove the pin. Thanks for watching, and great question! 🙂👍
Agreed. I also have never seen a situation where the pin managed to unscrew itself a full 10 or so turns and come undone. I have on the other hand seen the pin get over tightened enough to where a tool was required to undo it many times. It’s totally understandable that Crosby wouldn’t recommend the practice of backing it off a bit, just for liability sake. If you’re doing the rigging, it’s always good practice to just keep an eye on the rigging every few picks anyway.
J. Chris Beck, those house shackles, are indeed a clevis. When I was editing, I was curious if anyone was going to catch it. Lol. Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
matt Harper, that's true! The reason being is the block is slow when reeved with multiple parts of line. Whereas the auxiliary or "whip" is fast with only a single part of line. Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
Huh, I’ve heard that term my whole life, “two block”. Funny I always thought it was “tube lock”. I guess until you see it written down you don’t really know which it is bcz they both sound exactly the same.
I’m a retired structural super so, yes I was always around cranes and operators. I came across your channel today when I saw you in the comments section of one of Andrew Camaratas videos, correcting someone on what the ‘pointy’ end of a spud wrench is for (NOT for a cheater bar). I like your channel and will definitely be checking back.
@@psidvicious, thank you for checking my channel out, and for contributing with great comments. Congratulations on your retirement. I still have a few (20 or so) years to go. 🙂
Your explanation of the difference between shackles and clevises is incorrect. The shackles you show are correctly named screw pin shackles, as you said. However, a shackle with a pin retained by a nut is a bolt shackle. A clevis shackle also uses bolt and nut as attachment, however the opposite end has another pin, usually attached with roll pins or cotter pins, designed to be attached to a chain or wire rope eye. Look up clevis shackle, and you'll see the difference.
Fake Crosby? Now I have heard of everything. I guess we all know what country they come from. Great that you can park inside. For years we never had a building everything was outside.
