Whats the proper name?

[RANDY10]

The crane company that we started to use about 4 years ago brought the first one that had ever used. The shackle with bull rope lengths instead of slings is very widely used now from what I have seen. I have heard all kinds of slang terms for it like fingers,octopus,squidy,and other dumb sounding names. I would like to know the proper term for this great rigging tool please?

 

[Norm_Hall]

We use the term "spider legs".

I don't think it has a 'proper term'. Wanna come up with one?

 

[classictruckman]

I think the term "spider leg" is as close as your going to get for a sling which is knotted.

 

[boreality]

balancer?

 

[theXman]

i vote for spider legs if they are all the same.

balancer if a main sling has the majority of the weight and then balancers (lesser strength usually) ropes are used to balance.

my opinion

 

[UrbanTC]

Spider Legs

 

[surfarmer1]

with chain i think the term is chain slings (two leg slings)

wire rope i think they are wire- rope bridles (three leg bridles)

with webbing i think the "legs" ae called branches.

I hope this may help and correct me if I am wrong..

 

[Jeff_Cochran]

bridles. you can have two, three, four, ten thousand leg bridles out of whatever sling material you want. the slang name for knotted equalizers on the buzz is spider legs, after a dynemia dead eye sling that sherrill tree sold to wrap on a rigging line to help find c.o.g. and/or balance a limb in a critical operation. in iron work we called a two leg bridle with 50' legs a "spreader"; not to be confused with a spreader bar.

 

[Jeff_Cochran]

also we called a four leg bridle a "four way". multi-lift rigging we called that "christmas tree rigging"; that saying came from way back in the day when you would get your christmas present with fourteen to twenty pieces on the hook! now a days the maximum number of individually rigged pieces on a lift is five. they do that for safety reasons. some people were just getting stupid with it.