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Over the years I've seen several welds let go through lack of penetration, many cracks due to fatigue and poor manufacture resulting in high stress concentrations. This is why I was thinking best to buy the correct items rather than get joe down the road to make it.

I'm sure a short piece of scaffold piece would do it especially if kept short and has had an event free life.

 

However from the replies I wonder how many of you bother with LOLER.

 

remember this is a hiab from a 3.5 tonner so nobody is going to be underneath it. 'elf 'an safety assured etc

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Have tried several methods over the years.

Proper hiab pallet forks are a pain unless you have either a rotator fitted or two people, one working the crane and one straightening the forks as you put them into the pallet, make sure if you try them you get a self adjusting set.

Scaffold poles and chains are just bloody dangerous for lifting pallets imo, tried it and they slip all over the place.

We now use a set of 5 metre slings nailed to a piece of 4x2 that is 4 foot long, just a couple of clout nails on each end is enough, once the wood is pushed under the pallet you know each end sticking out is the same length, works a treat and have been using it for the last 4 years.

 

Edit: if you have pallets back to back on a lorry then you probably do need to use crane forks

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Seems like agg to me, poles chains 2 people etc etc, just get propper equipment to do the job, if I was dealing with pallets I'd get a pallet grab no agg

Agreed, proper kit is normally quicker and safer.

Also with the policy of " if they break they get replaced" which sounds like there is a good chance of no LOLER inspections then you definitely would not want a second person around.

Presumably no ticket would mean no insurance payout.

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