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One of the major important parts of lifting equipment  are wire rope slings.  Whether it is being used out in the oil fields, the construction site, aerospace industry, or any other profession that requires heavy lifting, there is always a way we can maximize the use of the slings. The rope is the item that actually works in pulling the item to wherever it needs to go. What’s more important is the fact that the write rope pulleys are just important. 

With every job the rope slings take a lot of abuse and tension. As such there are ways to maintain it for many uses to come.  A sling isn’t effective if it’s defective. 

Prolonging the Sling

For starters, the rope slings should not be exposed to drastic amounts of heat or cold.  For that matter, it shouldn’t come into contact with acids or acidic-based elements. The items listed wear down the rope slings – and worst of all you may not even know it until you start on a job.  Many times the visual evidence doesn’t exist. There is no telling how much weight and stress one of them takes each time it goes out on a job, but it’s important to have as much of an unexposed sling as possible. 

Another way to prolong its use is to use the sling for what it was intended to be used – nothing more! Far too often, we find ways to find shortcut, but those shortcuts always find a way to bite us back.  Before the lift is even begun, you have to make sure that the sling is the sling you need.  When you fail to do things the right way, composing the equipment as it’s supposed to be, then disaster is sure to hit.

Make sure the wire string pulley is the right size and shape, too.  You can’t have an effective sling if you don’t have an effective pulley. A general rule of thumb is to do a stress test before the actual lift. This will tell a lot about your sling and pulley.