Re: Lexan shield for forklift ?

On second thought, have you thought about using a nylon sling instead
of a chain. I for one dread the thoughts of being anywhere inline with
any cable or chain under tension no matter what its rated for and how
well kept and unabused that chain / cable may be, and what it may be
pulling on.....A sling of nylon would be much safer in all aspects. I
seen first hand what a broken chain and cable can do.....and both
times it was deadly. One was my first father inlaw, who lost the top
of his skull when a chain link brokeand the tension on the cable that
was applied to the chain whipped back and literally took his skull
off at eye level. Of coarse he was an accident waiting to happen
anytime he was awake........He had a boot leg coal hole and used a big
old dozer with a winch on it to pull small coal cars back and forth
across a stream and up a hillside where he loaded it into a dump
truck etc. His winch broke, so he would pivot the dozer on the tracks
and wrap the cable up on the dozer itself.....I would have thought the
cable would fray and break, but it was a link that broke on the chain
that did him in.

Another time I seen folks trying to pull a fully loaded Olds Vista
Cruiser out of the sand they got stuck in when they decided to drive
on the beach area. They had two , 2,000 pound Masdam type comealongs
hooked together for length to an anchor point, and were actually
bending the handles onthe comealongs in the process of trying to get
that stuck land cruiser out. Cable broke and disembowled the 10 year
old that was watching them unstick mommas car.....

Use a nylon sling.........
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