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Issue of Wire Rope News – Feb 2025

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Wire Rope News & Sling Technology Magazine

COVER PHOTO: The old diesel drop hammer method of setting piles and building seawalls is being replaced with equipment and methods that meet the challenges of current job requirements. Photograph courtesy of PANGGABEAN – iStockphoto

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Featured Articles:

Seawalls, Pile Driving, & Mankind

Article by Dennis J. O’Rourke, CSP, Historiographer, OSHA Part 1919 Maritime Surveyor

Seawalls not only hold back Earth’s naturally encroaching and rising water table, but they help to establish the shorelines throughout the World.

Civilization flourished because humans shuffled themselves and materials from one place to another, advancing their species’ existence. The waterways afforded the first effective avenues of travel, i.e., the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, the Nile River, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. Only in the 18th century, by replacing the ox cart, did the rail system land transport start efficiently connecting the cities to ports for commerce to grow and support Earth’s 8.4 billion people – for better or worse. Man endeavored to improve water access in the Ancient World, from a canoe landing to today’s container terminals. We will discuss the important contribution of a seawall in establishing the shoreline. (read the full article on page 8 in the magazine)

The Erie Canal at 200: Still Alive and Well

Article by Peter Hildebrandt.

Celebrating its bicentennial, this famous waterway continues to thrive, functioning as it has since its construction, and is a symbolic marvel of industrial achievement.

Eighteenth century canals in England transformed a coal-rich, navigable waterway-poor country into a major player in the coming industrial revolution. But a few decades later and several thousand miles to the west, one canal, and its branches took things to a new level. (read the full article on page 16 in the magazine)

CP&A Urges Crane Industry to Better Utilize Heat Straightening

Article by Casper, Phillips & Associates advises the crane industry not to overlook heat straightening as a method of repair when structural beams or columns are damaged.

EXCERPT: Heat straightening is the ideal solution when a beam or column does not have significant crack formation. It has been used to repair ship-to-shore container crane booms, where failure led to the boom up limit switch not being activated, causing the boom to bend. Heat straightening is not for situations where cracks form because of high-cycle fatigue. (read the full article on page 24 in the magazine or online here)

DEPARTMENTS

  • News in Our Industry
    • Caldwell Purchases Beloit Office Building
    • DLM Receives JOSCAR Approval
    • OZ Lifting Shows New TelePro Davit Crane at ProMat
    • Modulfit to the Moon: Spreader Beams for NASA Research Facility
    • Specht Industries Installs R&M Cranes, Hoists at Autoclave Systems Manufacturer
    • Modulift Down Under: Spreader Beams Power Historic Lift of WWII Dry Dock Gate in Australia
    • Green Pin Claims the Role of ‘Centrepiece of Rigging’
    • DICA Wins Four 2024 Industry Awards for Safety, Innovation, and Performance
    • RiConnect Issues Digital Product Passports
    • RSS Presents Inaugural Company Awards
    • Steel Industry Leaders Set to Gather in the City of Bridges for SEAA’s 2025 Convention & Trade Show
    • AISI Statement on Trump America First Trade Policy
    • AISI Highlights Steel Industry Priorities
    • LiftEx returns to Liverpool in 2025
  • Denny’s Crane & Rigging Notes (by Dennis J. O’Rourke) – Bad “In-House” Rigging, part 2. (read the full column on page 40)
  • Inventor’s Corner (by William Fischer):
    • Wire rope inspection system and positioning method for wire rope inspection system
    • Rope Joining
    • Anti-vermin apparatus for protecting suspended lines
    • Wire rope inspection method, wire rope inspection system, and wire rope inspection device
    • Long-service-life PWS cable with replaceable sleeve and shielding gas
    • Flexible pulling rope and manufacturing method thereof
  • Products in the News
    • Talurit Group Launches Next-Generation Test Bed, Raising the Bar for Safety & Efficiency
    • Stamp of Authority
    • Ketten Wälder Promotes cromox Chain Hoist, Trolley
    • USA Content in LA & MA Hoists
    • GIS Expands Lightweight Hoist Range
    • RSS Stocks ASCO NSL Handbooks, Posters, Push-Pull Poles
  • People in the News
  • Puzzle Page: Word Search and Crossword Puzzle
  • Classified Ads

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