Among images that cannot be unseen is the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore on March 26 this year, when it was struck by the disabled cargo ship Dali. Opened in March 1977, the bridge was three days shy of its 47th anniversary when it collapsed. With a continuous through truss design, [...]
The latest post by our sister company, American Scaffolding, put a spotlight on the reconstruction of the Notre Dame Cathedral and the intensive use of scaffolding during this ongoing project. While photos showed the Cathedral almost completely encased in scaffolding at times, it was impossible for us to overlook the presence of cranes and industrial [...]
As this new year gets underway, it’s hard to say what is more exciting for those of us in the industrial wire rope business: an economy with energy that seems to promise strong potential for the upcoming year, or an NFL playoff season that has included a match-up of two teams that each boast suspension [...]
A one-page article in the August 2023 issue of Wire Rope News, “Righting the Oklahoma” launched a quest: to figure out how many miles of industrial rope are used at sea. “Righting the Oklahoma” is an interesting account of the history of the battleship USS Oklahoma, as the second oldest ship at Pearl Harbor. It [...]
A lot of weightlifting goes on behind the scenes of major sporting venues, and it’s not just the athletes hoisting the weights. For fans and athletes alike, it’s hard to beat the thrill of the energy inside the stadium. It’s a force that binds team spirit and motivates competitive peak performance. The stadiums set the [...]
Never under-estimate the power of a Hurricane. Of course, that’s obvious in nature, but here we are talking about hoisting and the industry-leading hoists from Columbus McKinnon. Unlike those greatest of storms we see in nature, however, the Columbus McKinnon Hurricane 360⁰ Mini is the smallest hand chain hoist on the market. Columbus McKinnon, like [...]
Any time of year, the mention of shackles can transport me to the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, with the image of Jacob Marley shaking his chains and shackles as he warns Scrooge to change his ways. This confession is further embarrassing as it’s always the Muppet version of Marley, making the night terror [...]
“Busy as a One-Armed Paper Hanger” may be a phrase out of another era in relation to interior design. Yet, despite – or perhaps – because of the disruption caused by the pandemic, it’s a condition that seems to be more common than ever. Something that we’ve observed among our customers at Industrial Wire Rope [...]
It’s an understatement to say that industrial rope threads through history in countless ways. Over the past couple of years, our blog posts have reflected just a handful of them, from some of the earliest applications of rope for irrigation to cables for dam gates to wire for suspension bridges. Interesting that there’s a common [...]
If you’ve been in the business of transporting heavy cargo for any length of time, you likely know that a chain binder, also referred to as a load binder, is a tool used to anchor large cargo loads for transport. As a device that applies tension to the chains that tie-down cargo, chain binders play [...]
