rope slings

[reppy007]

Does the place you work at allow you to use rope slings,the reason Im asking is because I came across a situation were the other crew we were teamed up with to change out a pot wasnt allowed to use them. We worked for the same company but at different locations.I threw a guy a rope sling and he gave it back,first I thought he was kidding me.And he thought that I was kidding him,but he informed me that his center was not allowed to use them.I respected his wishes,but that is how I was brought up,some linetrucks had more than a dozen hanging around.

[birdog37]

No safety violation here.Rope slings are great in tight spots,especially changing out a tub say in a backyard and the rope sling can be cinched down enough to give you the extra inch to get it off that bolt.Carry at least 6 on the truck along with some in the bucket.Don't leave home without em.A.......

[Pootnaigle]

Ummmmmmmmmm I came up usin em but nowadays ya hafta use a Transformer sling which is made outta braided rope with a becket or sumpin to lift a transformer. I dunno why other than some safety guru says so. Never ever had a rope sling fail that I know of.We used lottsa nylon endless slings too and they have gone south also.I remember years ago a chain sling wasnt even legal unless it had some kinda tag onnit. Just how dumb was that? we wernt lifting station transformers with em. I bleve there is an effort underway to make a linemans job near impossible. Remember the old winch line hooks that hooked in the eye of the winch line without any shackles? those too are a thing of the past...

[reppy007]

Ummmmmmmmmm I came up usin em but nowadays ya hafta use a Transformer sling which is made outta braided rope with a becket or sumpin to lift a transformer. I dunno why other than some safety guru says so. Never ever had a rope sling fail that I know of.We used lottsa nylon endless slings too and they have gone south also.I remember years ago a chain sling wasnt even legal unless it had some kinda tag onnit. Just how dumb was that? we wernt lifting station transformers with em. I bleve there is an effort underway to make a linemans job near impossible. Remember the old winch line hooks that hooked in the eye of the winch line without any shackles? those too are a thing of the past...

Yea I remember those hooks,and when I went to Fla.to work and mentioned that we still had some steel winches in use they thought that I was crazy,it was as if they never heard of it being done.......years ago,sure there was a couple of steel winch accidents,but not many.Today there are alot more and these are without steel winchlines.......setting poles in 12 or 34.5 kv was simple,when you spread right and cover right,lineguards ,poleguards,ect...even with steel winchlines.

[bluestreak]

It's all got to do with lawyers and management that doesn't know what we do for a living. When something happens it's all about pointing the finger and not about common sense which isn't to common any more. Just before I retired the stock room wouldn't load transformers with the fork lift because somebody read that you couldn't use a sling hanging over the forks because the angle on the forks was too sharp and would compromise the sling, it took three months to get a rig to {safely} load trans. on the back of the truck, but it was perfectly ok to manually drag them from the dock onto the back of the truck!

[reppy007]

But........sometimes guys dont seem to know when its time to throw a rope sling away,even if its near being dry-rotted.

[scott6824]

I think according to our safety rules.. the rope or sling has to have a load limit clearly marked on the liftiing device. rope slings don't typically have a load limit so slings with proper labels are only used..

[UGL]

I think according to our safety rules.. the rope or sling has to have a load limit clearly marked on the liftiing device. rope slings don't typically have a load limit so slings with proper labels are only used..

I don't think that's just your safety rule. I believe thats an OSHA regulation for rigging.