"Steve B" wrote in message
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"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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I used to have a lot of respect for the knowledge of the people in this
newsgroup. However the recent discussion of safety chains, and the
inability of the whole lot of you to figure out how to shorten one
without a huge amount of sturm und drang, and the abuse that you have
heaped upon me over the method that I showed, that I learned from my
father who sailed before the mast back when that meant literally
sailing, and who learned to do such things in the school of hard knocks
known at the "Seabees" during WWII, and which any competent engineer
would be able to tell you is structurally sound, has revealed to me that
you're all blithering idiots who talk a good game but don't have a lick
of common sense between you.

I can't believe that you bunch of IDIOTs can't figure out how to shorten
a damned chain.

Don't know about you, but mine came from about twenty years of actually
working with them. You shorten a chain by cutting it. If you want to
safely join two sections together, you use a twin clevis link.

Then there's limitations on what you can use that altered chain for
according to OSHA and OPI standards, but that's another discussion.

Sorry your information is all second hand from your Dad, and does not come
from your own experience. That must suck. For me, it came from being a
several time OSHA certified rigger, Offshore Petroleum Institute rigger,
certified crane operator, certified hard hat diver, two years as a diver
tender, and just allaround grunt, worm, and weevil who rigged up a lot of
miles of chain for lifts.

Steve, just another uneducated ****wad, but if you want to lift something
safely, call me.


And what do you use old cable for?
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