Rigger's Handbook
The Rigger's Handbook is a valuable "must have" for mobile crane and/or boom truck operators and riggers. As anyone that works with or around hoisting equipment will tell you, rigging is an entire world unto itself. Often times the difference between a safe, routine lift and a catastrophe is the rigging. The Rigger's Handbook is a quick reference guide that will familiarize you with critical information on:
General Wire Rope Information
- Seizing wire rope
- Safe working loads (SWL)
- Breaking strength rule of thumb
- How to measure wire rope
- Wire rope trouble
- Uncoiling and spooling wire rope
- Drum and reel information
- Wire rope slings and chokers
- Lifting and turning loads
- Sling angles
- Sling inspection guidelines
- Reeving with wire rope
- Material handling gear (hooks, rings, shackles, etc.)
- Wire rope clips and connections
- Property comparison and specifications
- SWL rules off thumb
- SWL rules for slings
- Splicing
- Knots and hitches
- Whipping rope
- Timber and plank strengths
- Safe crane operation and procedures
- Signals
- Alloy steel chain information
- Good and bad rigging practices
- Weights of materials
- English and metric systems of measures with conversions
- Terminology