On 12/29/2008 jimlux wrote:
...snip....
> That works well. I used to tie the clove hitch first, then lead the
> line along the pipe towards the high end, then twist and stick it over
> the end to make the half hitch, take out the foot or so of slack and it
> snugs right up.
Yes, that's the normal way - heck, the clove hitch was usually done as two
loops passed over - one way to tie them
>> My rigging was not at the heights that big towers were, but I've
>> lifted lots of BIG pieces of steel between 10 and 100 ft (heaviest
>> lift just over 10 tons - to 35 ft)
> Whether it falls 2 feet or 100, it's still a disaster..
Yep - never dropped a load. Stop, think, and if you don't KNOW what your
doing, stop and ask, which was a good thing the original poster did. Also,
plan is things DO go wrong, they go wrong in a way that no one gets hurt. Most
of my rigging was in putting bridge cranes into place, which I always thought
was funny, as boy could we have used our end product, to get our end product
into place
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For the Children - RKBA!
Be wary of strong drink.
It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss.
--R.A.H.
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