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Jul 12, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 22 Replies
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All good advise, Thanks again👍️ Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI

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That's my experience plus the Army field rigging manual and boy scout training. I didn't mention the preceding failures. Tripods appear to be the standard minimalist answer if you don't have a forklift or bucket loader. A neighbor does have a bucket loader, limited to 900# which isn't a big log. My other lifting devices on what little fairly level ground I own are a 1 ton shop crane fitted with outdoor wheels and a hitch coupler for my garden tractor, and a bed crane for the truck. A lever hoist is the most versatile, for instance to level and support a 6x6 landscaping timber on my horizontal bandsaw so I can trim the end with one cut.

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I've seen that as well, but for hoisting equipment there are very specific legally enforceable requirements on safety margins. But good luck enforcing that against a Chinese manufacturer.

This is for chain.

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I'm sure that there are rules for manual hoists, but have not the energy to find them.

Joe

------------------------------- That matches what I've read and been told by the logging chain dealer.

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Apparently overhead rated chain differs in being an alloy that's more able to deform before snapping than carbon steel Grade 70 and below which can be (and I've seen it) brittle past its yield point. That makes it better for jolts like an electric hoist startup. He said Grade 80 is almost as expensive as 100 so that's all he stocks. The links on 80 and 100 are shorter and won't accept the pin of a similarly rated shackle except at the end.

The useful fittings he had that I didn't know about are grab hooks with a Cradle that spreads the load along the side of the grabbed link and Hammerlocks meant to make multichain slings as when disassembled their smaller end fits into suitably rated chain links. They can be punched apart again but not easily while hanging.

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I've seen that as well, but for hoisting equipment there are very specific legally enforceable requirements on safety margins. But good luck enforcing that against a Chinese manufacturer.

Joe

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I bought a lever hoist from a discount store that barely met the requirements for truth in advertising that it was a hoist. It lifted all right but jammed too easily on lowering, and internally looked like it had been hammered out by an apprentice in the 1700's. If the chain freewheel is disengaged only luck and bad words will reengage it again. He had bought only that one sample and I was the guinea pig tester. I kept it to lie in the dirt and hold the feet of my shear legs from spreading, which avoids trying to lower a load.

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