90mm swager

[gafftapegreenia]

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[kicknargel]

We're gonna need a bigger turnbuckle.

 

[derekleffew]

One might note that they left a length of the dead end, equal to the cable's diameter, protruding past the swage sleeve.

No thimble, though?

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[Chris15]

If what one is attaching to is big enough and round enough, surely a thimble is not required?

Something that is heavy enough to need a 90mm wire rope (which a quick search shows is going to be good for 6 or 700 hundred tonnes) is probably going to be designed with specialised lifting points...

 

[What Rigger?]

One might note that they left a length of the dead end, equal to the cable's diameter, protruding past the swage sleeve.

No thimble, though?

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Yeah, no thimble. Whatever that's gonna be lifting (M1 Abrams, perhaps???), it's gonna be more of a crane pick. I used to have a real good explanation why no thimble, but I can't articulate it right now. Where's my coffee? I would hope it'll be a short (time wise) pick anyway. Things that big don't need to be up in the air permanently in my eyes. Oh, and hey, don't stand under that.

But with that sort of wire rope diameter, I think the tail is a bit more than a "finger biter". Ow!













What I really wanna see is the "no go" gauge for this.

 

[gafftapegreenia]

And now, the shackle.

 

[jonliles]

Yeah, no thimble. Whatever that's gonna be lifting (M1 Abrams, perhaps???), it's gonna be more of a crane pick.

Heck, M1's don't weigh that much. My gas turbine rotors only weigh 100 tons or 87 tonnes (eh, close enough). That appears to be off of some sort of gantry crane - really dang big one at that. I bet it's sued at a sea port someplace.