I’ve got a rigging question that I can’t get a definitive answer on.
I’ve got a unique situation to where I need to take a chain and make it into a continuous loop, with one end looped around the machine and the other end looped around a shackle that is attached to our lifting equipment.
The problem arises in what capacity we are talking about. I always assumed that putting a chain in a continuous loop doubled the capacity over the single leg WLL. My rigging supplier says it will be 1.4 times the single WLL. Another engineer says that it will not increase capacity at all because both ends aren’t terminated on a hook (as in a true basket hitch)
I’ve looked through all my reference material and searched the web but I can’t seem to find any definitive info on this type of hitch. I’m just throwing it out here to see if anybody could provide some helpful info.
I’ve got a unique situation to where I need to take a chain and make it into a continuous loop, with one end looped around the machine and the other end looped around a shackle that is attached to our lifting equipment.
The problem arises in what capacity we are talking about. I always assumed that putting a chain in a continuous loop doubled the capacity over the single leg WLL. My rigging supplier says it will be 1.4 times the single WLL. Another engineer says that it will not increase capacity at all because both ends aren’t terminated on a hook (as in a true basket hitch)
I’ve looked through all my reference material and searched the web but I can’t seem to find any definitive info on this type of hitch. I’m just throwing it out here to see if anybody could provide some helpful info.