Terms

Question 1

A rigging tool used to gain leverage, in moving a load up and down.

Answer 1

Pry bar

Question 2

Two cheeks, a pulley and a yoke make up this piece of hardware.

Answer 2

Rigging block

Question 3

A flexible device used to connect the lead to the crane hook.

Answer 3

Sling

Question 4

A piece of hardware which can be found in the round, oblong or pair shapes.

Answer 4

Master link

Question 5

A tangle of slings or multiple cross-overs of wire rope on a winch drum.

Answer 5

Rats nest

Question 6

The immediate arrest of a free falling object.

Answer 6

Shock load

Question 7

A piece of rigging hardware which has two ends, such as a jaw or eye, That can freely rotate independently of each other.

Answer 7

Swivel

Question 8

A piece of hardware are used to dead end a wire rope, often called a becket.

Answer 8

Wedge socket

Question 9

A U-shaped piece of rigging hardware, often referred to as a clevis.

Answer 9

Shackle

Question 10

A piece of synthetic rope used to inhibit a suspended load from rotating are swinging.

Answer 10

Tag line

Question 11

A piece of rigging equipment which has a handle two hooks in the load chain.

Answer 11

Come-a-long

Question 12

A piece of rigging that can that can swivel and hinge.

Answer 12

Swivel hoist ring

Question 13

A sling hitch created by passing one eye thru the other eye.

Answer 13

Choker

Question 14

The last thing you want to hear when you’re operator gets into the crane cab, first thing in the morning

Answer 14

Yee Hawl

Question 15

How often should rigging be inspected?

Answer 15

Before use, daily at the beginning of your shift

Question 16

Blocks and pulleys are rated with?

Answer 16

MBS, WLL

Question 17

Never stand in the —– of the line?

Answer 17

Bight

Question 18

When placing multiple slings in a rigging shackle, the shackle should be placed on the crane hook with the — up.

Answer 18

Pin

Question 19

Never —- —- A choker hitch.

Answer 19

Beat down

Question 20

Always pull ———- on an eye bolt.

Answer 20

Vertically

Question 21

Personnel should stand —– – The suspended load.

Answer 21

Clear of

Question 22

—– loading should be avoided.

Answer 22

Shock

Question 23

Rigging block sheaves that —— shall be removed from service.

Answer 23

Wobble

Question 24

The most important element to reading it properly lifted load is —–?

Answer 24

Total weight, Center of gravity, load share, sling length, sling tension, connection devices, load control

Question 25

A piece of rigging hardware which has a body and two threaded end fittings.

Answer 25

Turnbuckle