A Quick Question - Is a 6,600# Crane Scale Worth Owning?

[lxskllr]

The consignment shop has a 6.6k crane scale for $80. Looks new in the pics. Amazon sells that model for $200. Is it worth getting?

 

[SeanKroll]

Never needed to weigh a crane.

 

[SeanKroll]

6.6k isn't enough capacity for most cranes, from my armchair, owning neither.

 

[lxskllr]

Well, it wouldn't be on a crane if I got it. It would just be something to weigh heavy things. Honestly, I'm not sure what, but it seems like a good price, so I thought I'd ask. Maybe it would be worth getting and holding onto if the need arises.

edit:
It's this unit(the smaller one)

https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Industrial-Aluminum-Precision-Construction/dp/B0CMGDJTGJ?th=1

 

[Tree09]

Unless you need to weigh stuff accurately a whole bunch i don't see a need at all for something like that.

 

[lxskllr]

Thanks Kyle! If you can't think of any use for yourself, I doubt I'd come up with one for myself :^)

 

[Tree09]

You can weigh stuff with a normal scale of any kind too, and if it's too heavy you can use something as a beam to decrease the force so it's within the range, just like a lever. You can also do it on a truck scale. If you were gonna be mixing concrete or something by weight that might be useful, or shipping heavy stuff all the time, other than that i can't imagine a use for it.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

It can be useful if you want to have an accurate value instead of guessing when rigging or pulling stuff in tree work. There are circonstances when we come close to the limite with the gear (close or even a bit more...). The scale may help to stay reasonable and not overload the gear or the support. Or just knowing what is the reserve in pulling power when you have to handle a sketchy situation. Like with the Maasdam for example. It can help to improuve your guessing too for futur jobs.

 

[flushcut]

I have a 2500 lb grain scale. Absolutely no use for it other than to talk about and collect dust in the loft. One day it may hang on a wall but I have my doubts. If I had a good place to hang it and play with it might be a different story.

 

[lumberjack]

If it was a good quality, for $80, who cares? I'd take it just to have.

 

[BlackSmith]

Maybe proof test splicings or such.

 

[flushcut]

That’s a good use.

 

[lxskllr]

Might be low capacity for a splice test. If you're gonna pull it to breakage anyway. Even my lowest capacity lines are coming up against the limit, and I have some that blow way past it.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Maybe as a non destructive proof testing or you pull on the splice at a convenient value to settle it and get it ready for use.

 

[flushcut]

Proof testing is non-destructive testing. It’s a test just to show that an item can handle a specified load with no damage. But I’m guessing if you ran a lifeline to the max your scale allows you wouldn’t want to use it after the test.

 

[lxskllr]

Well, the decision was made for me. The scale's been sold. I was kinda hoping that would happen. Keep me from buying something and never using it. Now I don't have to worry about it :^D

 

[stikine]

Not to mention it's one less thing to stub your toe on.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Saved by someone else's money and desires to part with it.