[rescue] Q: moving medium heavy things

[Tim H.]

They are only weak if they aren't tied together properly, and they have
freedom to twist under load.  They actually will hold a lot of vertical
load, but a relatively weak under side loads, if they are not tied
together with proper cross bracing they twist and collapse.  If you have
a way to distribute load across several of them you could pick up a lot,
but you can't do it by looping a chain through them.  A 16 foot piece of
2 inch iron pipe laid through several of them and tied down would hold
several hundred pounds easy.  After all, they do hang catwalks on them.

Tim

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:27:13 -0400
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

>   They're weak if they're cheaply constructed.  Trouble is, suits are
> involved, so they usually are.