What Is Rigging Equipment? Here’s Our Approved Inspection Checklist.

What is rigging equipment, and how do you ensure that your rigging equipment is safe to use? With a rigging equipment inspection checklist, you can ensure that your rigging equipment is safe and can handle the necessary loads to do your work. If it isn’t safe, it’s time to replace it.

What Is Rigging Equipment?

Rigging equipment is essential in several industries across the Pacific Northwest, including construction, dredging, logging, excavation, and more. Most rigging equipment includes tools to lift large, heavy, or unwieldy loads. Individual parts include chains, wires, straps, hooks, bolts, hoists, and similar parts which your Everett industrial supplier can assemble to suit your work site needs.

What Are the Different Types of Rigging Equipment?

When you look for rigging equipment in an industrial supply store, either in-person or online, how do you know which parts will work best on your jobsite? At Greenshields Industrial Supply, we offer hundreds of rigging solutions for several industries in the Pacific Northwest, including:

Chains

Rated for towing, tie-downs, load binding, and logging, our chain options come in several galvanized finishes.

Blocks

Our pulley blocks come in an assortment of sizes, gauges, and workload ratings.

Chokers

We offer an expanding selection of pipe chokers, cat chokers, and skidder chokers, with or without bells.

Eye Bolts

Easily attach loads to cranes or other rigging equipment with eye bolt rings.

Grips

Adjoin several cables for lifting with a grip part.

Hooks

We offer a wide range of hooks to hold chains, wires, slings, and more.

Wire Ropes

Whether for towing or lifting, our wire ropes and cables come in several gauges, tensile strength ratings, and coating options.

Slings

We sell Liftex Synthetic Slings and straps, including poly web slings and polyester slings. We can also order nylon slings.

Turnbuckles

Adjust the length or tension on a wire, cable, chain, or other tensioned rigging equipment with a turnbuckle part.

Hoists & Trolleys

We offer Magna, Jet, ATD, MIT, and CM hoists and trolleys, among other brands.

Load Binders

Secure a load with DOT transport chains, ratchet binders, and lever binders, among other load binder options.

Rigging Inspection Checklist Approved by Greenshields

With so many parts working together to secure, tow, lift, and move large loads, all of your equipment must be in good working order to ensure job site safety. Ensure that your job site performs regular inspections with a thorough rigging equipment inspection checklist, including:

Wire Rope and Cabling

Check for:

• Kinks or distortions
• Interior corrosion
• Shiny spots from wear
• Reduced diameter by 25% or more

Chains

Check for:

• Broken links
• Stretched links
• Nicked or gouged links
• Excessive corrosion

Synthetic Web Slings

Check for:

• Tears or cuts
• Signs of burns, including melting or charring
• Worn stitching
• Distortion
• Stretching beyond manufacturer guidelines

Rigging Hardware (Blocks, Grips, Turnbuckles, etc.)

• Corrosion, nicks, or gouges
• Bending, twisting, elongation, cracking
• Missing or illegible load rating

Discard or set aside and mark equipment unsafe if it fails any part of the inspection.

Our High-Quality Industrial Supplies

1. Now that you know the answer to “what is rigging equipment?”, contact us at Greenshields Industrial Supply to help you find the right product as a 60+ year supplier in Everett, WA.