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Lost a sling today -- or rather, decided on early retirement. It had a nick in it and a few pulled fibers. Time for another one or two new ones to ring in the new year. Besides, we need a choker with more length to go around the circumference of some of these trees we've been facing lately...

Is that 5x figure well documented? I would have assumed 1.5 to 2x the labeled rating, but that's a bit much more than I would have expected. For sure you can't afford a failure when craning over property -- buildings, cars, etc. Last week we craned a walnut log over a garage end of a house. Our...

Well, yesterday we picked up a massive root ball from an oak stump with our grapple truck. We used 2 slings to basket it and just barely were able to pick it up and crane it onto the truck. So in a low risk situation we proved to ourselves that the weight rating on the American Riggers slings is...

We had to pull the log truck (60,000 GVW) back onto the road with the chip truck (30,000 GVW) this past week due to the snowmelt making things mucky on a slight incline -- barely able to call it a "hill." We used chains + an Amsteel sling, did just dandy. Done the opposite in the past -- pulled...

I seem to recall our local Kansas City area supplier being way cheaper than that. (We have 2 yellow slings and a longer red one from them -- don't want to go out in the rain and look at the rating tag at the moment...)

Yes, likewise -- main trunks are lifted with chains exclusively here.

Using rated slings here. We will retire them when sufficient chafing is evident that would render them unsafe (as with ropes). We don't go by some arbitrary expiration date or if the rating tag is illegible. Hopefully no OSHA commandos ever come swinging out of some trees to check up on us, but...