Simple basic beam lifting clamps

[Toolmaker51]

Lifting or hanging, beam clamps are reliable simple mechanisms. What makes them work accordingly differs; one being sufficiently sized could do either job. I'd hesitate same task with the other.
All of this shows what a little combination of resources, ingenuity and material can do. I'm convinced ingenuity the biggest factor of capability. Very often there is a moment twixt "this will work" and "we need something different".
During concept and execution both of those can avert "we should of..."