Understanding the meaning of big

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1. Fascinating stuff.. I work for a company that engineers a lot of the blocks for lifts like that

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2. Crosby.... or do they stick with the under 10,000 pound hook blocks? n/t

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3. Yep.. Crosby =)

We don't handle anything much bigger than 55 ton in my warehouse, but I know the special engineering guys make some monstrous stuff lol

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4. You handle hookblocks that weigh 110 thousand pounds. They aren't suitable for

paperweights then... "Attack of the Killer Hook blocks" ref to monstrous stuff.

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5. well no.. their rated lifting capacity is 55 tons...

The 55 ton shackles weight in at about 80 pounds, but yeah big nonetheless lol

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6. Oh.... better then, I couldn't see you carting around such items, just wouldn't be right. n/t

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7. lol yeah.. our forklift is only capable of about 3000 pounds..

so I think we'd be up the creek big time if we had one of those derrick blocks to deal with

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8. I have heard from a friend that on these huge cranes, the main cable or perhaps the

cable that reeves on the back part.... is so long, that no one makes one long enough. Therefore they have to "splice" them. I have been told that Lloyds of London (insurer) has to have a man present to witness the splicing operation. I have also been told that it takes up to 8 hours to raise the boom.

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9. I hadn't heard that,being just a warehouse rat, but it would not surprise me lol