• Balbir Singh & Sons

Wire Rope Slings

Balbir Singh & Sons offers the Ushalock range of Wire Rope Slings. Large loads require large slings; whatever the load, the company can supply a steel wire rope sling to do the task. Slings up to 12" (305 mm) diameter can be supplied with minimum breaking loads up to specified weight. There are three distinct types of wire rope slings: slings manufactured from cable laid ropes, 4" diameter to 12" diameter, hand spliced or by combination of hand splicing and socketing with eye at each end; true endless cable laid grommet slings with eyes seized in each end; and slings manufactured from 6 strand equal laid ropes up to 3 ½" diameter with soft eyes spliced each end terminated by either hand splicing or mechanical means. The company can offer both hand spliced and Ushalock methods of terminating cable laid slings.
Ushalock offers the following advantages:

• Slings can be manufactured to closer length tolerance than those normally quoted for hand splicing
• The stretch of the eye and termination is reduced because there are no splicing tucks, which will pull down under load
• Slings of shorter length can be produced again because there is length of splice to be considered
• Efficiency 90% terminal each as against 75% with conventional hand spliced cable laid slings.