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Agreed. But for a rigging device at the base of a tree weight isn't an issue, in fact the only reason it would be aluminum would be for heat dissipation. You could incorporate cooling into a steel design, and that would eliminate glazing (cooling fins made from al on the inside of the pipe...

Thanks. When al is heated, it gets softer, no matter the cooling rate. They heat it up after forming processes, which anneals it, allowing more forming (think a beer can for example). The plate that you can buy where the aluminum is very hard has been cold rolled, which are rollers that...

From a manufacturing standpoint, welds in al are weaker than the surrounding metal (opposite of steel), so al parts are usually machined from billet. This is dramatically more expensive than welding and forming from standard steel shapes. In the industrial world, you will never see any aluminum...