WIRE ROPE SLINGS

These cost-effective slings provide the most efficient use of wire rope capacity. The eyes are formed using the flemish eye splice and the ends are secured by pressing a metal sleeve over the ends of the strands of the splice. Pull is directly along the centerline of rope and eye.

The standard flemish eye mechanical splice, rope is separated into two parts – 3 adjacent strands, and 3 adjacent strands and core. These two parts are then re-laid back in opposite directions to form an eye, and ends are secured with a pressed metal sleeve.

This cutaway of a metal sleeve swaged onto a splice shows how metal “flows” into valleys between strands to positively prevent ends from unlaying when sling is used within its rated capacity.

The standard flemish eye mechanical splice, rope is separated into two parts – 3 adjacent strands, and 3 adjacent strands and core. These two parts are then re-laid back in opposite directions to form an eye, and ends are secured with a pressed metal sleeve.

All-purpose bridles are recommended for handling unbalanced loads.

All-purpose bridles are used for both balanced and unbalanced loads and heavier loads where design calls for more distribution of weight by the use of attachment at four points.

The end of a single wire rope is turned back along the rope to form the eye, and strands are hand-tucked into the body of the rope. There are two styles available:

1. Standard Four Tuck Burnt-End Splice
   The strands are left exposed, cut off and fused with a torch.
2. Tapered and Concealed Splice
   Utilizes tension in the rope body to secure strands where they are tucked back into the rope. The center core of either fiber or wire is removed along the length of the splice. When “tapered and concealed”, ends of strands are tucked inward and concealed inside the rope.

Standard Four tuck and tapered and concealed slings have the same rated capacity for each available diameter of wire rope.

Wayne Printup was a loyal HSI customer and iron worker who first suggested to us a sling with a hand tucked splice at one end and a Flemish eye mechanical splice at the other end. Hanes Supply offers these hybrid slings, built to the same rated capacities as standard hand-spliced slings.

These smooth and very flexible slings are made from cut lengths of cable-laid fabric that is machine formed by laying six wire ropes in a helical pattern around a core rope. Flemish eye mechanical splices, secured by pressed metal sleeves, provide centerline pull at the eyes. More flexible than same capacity single-part slings.

Sling bodies are made from seven individual wire ropes.

This is a three part wire rope sling developed to give the rigger the advantages of strength combined with greater flexibility. It was created to replace large diameter single part wire rope slings which proved awkward and stiff. Steel erectors, millwrights and riggers use Tri-Flex Slings for everything from steel erection or machinery moving to any type of heavy lift. These slings are made in matching lengths.

For heavy lifting, Gator-Laid® Wire Rope Slings are the most efficient and flexible multipart wire rope slings that meet all industrial and regulatory standards. This sling has metal sleeves for the splice connection and parallel-laid wire in the eyes. It is a heavy-lift sling that can be made in short working lengths. Gator-Laid® products were developed in conjunction with the offshore oil industry to provide the world’s best heavy-lift wire rope slings.

This sling has a nine-part body style with wires in the eyes that are crossed or interwoven so no wrapping is necessary. This sling was developed in conjunction with riggers who preferred a sling for heavy lifts that could be visually inspected and have the highest flexibility possible in a multi-part wire rope sling.