Terms Flashcards
A rigging tool used to gain leverage, in moving a load up and down.
Pry bar
Two cheeks, a pulley and a yoke make up this piece of hardware.
Rigging block
A flexible device used to connect the lead to the crane hook.
Sling
A piece of hardware which can be found in the round, oblong or pair shapes.
Master link
A tangle of slings or multiple cross-overs of wire rope on a winch drum.
Rats nest
The immediate arrest of a free falling object.
Shock load
A piece of rigging hardware which has two ends, such as a jaw or eye, That can freely rotate independently of each other.
Swivel
A piece of hardware are used to dead end a wire rope, often called a becket.
Wedge socket
A U-shaped piece of rigging hardware, often referred to as a clevis.
Shackle
A piece of synthetic rope used to inhibit a suspended load from rotating are swinging.
Tag line
A piece of rigging equipment which has a handle two hooks in the load chain.
Come-a-long
A piece of rigging that can that can swivel and hinge.
Swivel hoist ring
A sling hitch created by passing one eye thru the other eye.
Choker
The last thing you want to hear when you’re operator gets into the crane cab, first thing in the morning
Yee Hawl
How often should rigging be inspected?
Before use, daily at the beginning of your shift
Blocks and pulleys are rated with?
MBS, WLL
Never stand in the —– of the line?
Bight
When placing multiple slings in a rigging shackle, the shackle should be placed on the crane hook with the — up.
Pin
Never —- —- A choker hitch.
Beat down
Always pull ———- on an eye bolt.
Vertically
Personnel should stand —– – The suspended load.
Clear of
—– loading should be avoided.
Shock
Rigging block sheaves that —— shall be removed from service.
Wobble
The most important element to reading it properly lifted load is —–?
Total weight, Center of gravity, load share, sling length, sling tension, connection devices, load control
A piece of rigging hardware which has a body and two threaded end fittings.
Turnbuckle
