Hydraulic swager making a giant rope sling - GIF

[Jon]

Hydraulic swager making a giant rope sling.




Previously:

Giant wire rope splicing needle - GIF
3 trucks transporting a 145-ton steel wire rope - video
How traditional rope is made, with 1800s machines - video

[baja]

The times I watched wire rope slings being made, they put a flemish eye-splice in before they swaged the fitting. A much stronger connection.

[hemmjo]

I wonder if they were making that for the Crane lifts crane lifting crane - GIF https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...623#post170623