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Contents Features Deluge of dam work for wire rope and fittings suppliers ............................ 8

The US Army Corp of Engineers contracted Ulven Co. to supply wire rope assemblies for a number of dams in Oklahoma.

Larry Means, the new ASME B30 chairman ......... 16 Circulation Director Patricia Bluvias

Elected chairman of the ASME B30 safety committee, Larry Means assumed the role at an unusual time.

Western logging industry hangs on, with the use of wire rope cable ........................... 20 Graphics & Layout Don Tywoniw - 2D Graphics

Wire rope is the key component for logging operations n the Pacific Northwest.

The latest and greatest high-tech gimmick . ....... 26 Website: www.wireropenews.com

Can Near Field Communication (NFC) do you more harm than good?

The Gem of the Port turns 60 ............................... 32

This Coordinated Companies landmark in the Port of Los Angeles, celebrates six decades of service to a diverse range of industries.

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Deluge of dam work for wire rope and fittings suppliers

By Pete Hildebrandt

Last year Ulven Co. was awarded a contract from the US Army Corp of Engineers for wire rope assemblies for a number of dams in Oklahoma.

An interesting fact about this contract was that the money was provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This is the largest award for just wire ropes under the Act! The contract was worth nearly $3 million.

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provided by the ver one American Recovhundred ery and Reinvestyears ago, ment Act of 2009 before Oklahoma and was adminwas even a state, istered through farmers working the Tulsa Corps the fertile land in of Engineers. The the vicinity of the Ulven Companies Arkansas River discovered this founded Kaw City. job on the Federal The discovery of Business Opporoil nearby added tunities website to the hectic pace (www.fbo.gov). of life in the area.

This is the largBut watery est award for just weather soon wire ropes under caught up with this Act, accordthe town during a ing to Cushman. devastating 1923 “This project is on flood of the region. a bigger scale than Spirits not broken Mike Severson, Houston Structures Project Manager, conducts field verification at the WD what we’re used to by that event were Mayo Dam with USACE personnel. dealing with. Norno doubt finished off during the Great Dust Bowl result- A Tainter gate resembles a piece of pie, mally, in my experience, the U.S. Army ing during the heart of the Great De- with the convex on the upstream side. Corps of Engineers only releases one It is lifted up by four or five cables and dam at a time per project. This happression of the 1930s.

In an effort to have more control supported on two rockers. The engineer- pened to be an eleven in one purchase, over water storage and release, the ing of the gate is such that as a safety which is completely unheard of.”

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers came on feature, the gate will actually close if Making Sure the Parts are Right An important part of the project’s stage with plans for a dam which was the wire ropes were to break.

“The wire rope technology has contract included field verification. The authorized by Congress in the Flood changed since these dams were first information that was supplied to The Control Act of 1962.

Numerous buildings in Kaw City, in- built,” says Bob Cushman, president of Ulven Companies at the time of the bid cluding the unique Kaw City Museum, Cascade Rigging, Clackamas, Oregon. was not adequate to produce the prodwere moved to the town’s present loca- “But everything else is pretty much uct. As a result, Mike Severson, project tion, on higher ground. Caskets and the same. Nowadays, the wire rope has manager for Houston Structures, one headstones from the town cemetery been structurally enhanced, leading to of The Ulven Companies, visited each were moved, as was the Kaw Indian stronger wires and moving away from dam to go through the original as-built cemetery. Old Kaw City’s museum ar- plain carbon steel wires to stainless drawings and gather the needed information, dimensions and everything tifacts now inhabit the old Santa Fe steel wires.”

In early 2010, The Ulven Companies, else that was required to produce the Railroad Depot. By 1976, huge Kaw Lake covered the place where the origi- Hubbard, Oregon, was awarded a sup- products. ply-only contract from the U.S. Army “Each one of these dams was built benal Kaw City once stood.

Almost thirty five years later, this Corp of Engineers for replacement tween the 1940s and 1960s,” explains dam, along with ten others, now needed stainless steel wire rope assemblies for Severson. “There was a possibility that some major overhaul work on their wire the Tulsa Watershed Project, which in- with many of the as-built drawings, a rope cables and associated fittings in or- cludes ten dams in Oklahoma and one design had been changed and that information didn’t carry through to the der to keep the Tainter gates (spillway in Kansas.

The project was paid for with money structures) well maintained and usable. continued on page 10 8

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ceptance process with the Army Corps continued from page 8 drawings. So, a large part of the proj- of Engineers.” ect was to actually physically go to the After getting all that information dam, find the as-built drawings (which they CAD-modeled all the parts, made were not always the ones given on the drawings, got them accepted and then contract that was bid from), interview began fabrication. The project started personnel on the dam about what has in April of 2010 and the components been changed in the last 50 or 60 years required for the last dam of the eleven and then physically view all the neces- will be delivered in June, 2011. sary parts that we could.

Four Companies Working Together “But a lot of these parts are hidden The contract was worth nearly $3 miland really hard to see. We had to do our lion. Four different companies came tobest, without disassembling anything, gether to make the assemblies: Loos & to verify that the as-built drawings Company, Pomfret, Connecticut, made were the parts that were on the dam. the special stainless steel wire rope; In some cases they were not. On some of the dams it was obvious from the as-built drawings that the sheaves and the drums had been changed over time and now we had no drawing for what was on the dam,” explains Severson. “In many cases, modifications to the dams took place before computerized drawings, causing some confusing and detailed modifications that were hard to follow. This resulted in a number of unanswered Broken Bow Dam, south eastern Oklahoma. questions that were worked through with the corps of Wolf Steel (an Ulven Company) made engineers. In one case, a full CAD mod- the sockets; Cascade Rigging made the el of the Tainter gate and sheaves had assemblies; and Houston Structures (an to be pieced together to determine the Ulven Company) did the project manmanufactured cable lengths. This was agement, field verification, necessary difficult to determine correctly because CAD models and engineering. of the cable wrapping around the drum Loos & Company and gate, not to mention the lower conOriginally the ropes used on these nection point was about 25 feet under- dams were flat, according to Mike Walwater and not possible to verify on the lace, vice president of sales and mardam. keting with Loos & Company. The gov“Some of these dams are located basi- ernment went out for a solicitation for cally on a floodplain. There have been flat wire ropes but they only received experiences where the actual dam a quote from one company. “The Army vaults where they keep the drawings Corp of Engineers could not award have been submerged a number of times a contract with only one bidder” says and different years where the drawings Wallace. “They cancelled the solicitahave been completely lost or misfiled in tion and then went out for comments a rush to save drawings from the flood. from the industry to figure out why Some drawings were damaged pretty they only had one bidder.” severely,” says Severson.

Wallace saw their request for com“There were no spare parts lying ments, called them up and told them around; there was no trail, very limited that the reason they only had one bidtraceability. We had to use what we der was because they were looking for could, to come up with what we’d need wire rope that only one company in the to manufacture and go through an ac- U.S. makes. He told them that the only 10

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way that they were going to do this was to redesign the rope into one that more manufacturers make to generate more competition.

“I gave them some different choices other than flat stainless steel wire rope. They ultimately choose an uncommon construction of a stainless steel wire rope. The sizes were: 12,000 feet ¾” 6x31 right lang lay; 10,000 feet 7/8” 6x31 right lang lay; 9,100 feet 1” 6x31 right lang lay; 21,000 feet 1 1/8” 6x31 right lang lay; 5,000 feet 7/8” and 6x19 right lang lay using domestic melted steel.

“They’d chosen a rope that was fairly uncommon in manufacture, 6 x 31 right lang lay and also specified a higher than normal breaking strength,” says Wallace.

“But nobody had ever made these ropes before; we had to start from scratch in designing these ropes, figuring out, by working backwards what tensile strengths are needed on the individual wires.

“It’s each individual wire and its strength that’s involved and you add them all up to get the total breaking strength of the wire rope. But all along the way there’s loss of efficiency because the wires are not straight, they’re twisted. They don’t hold their full breaking strength. You have to calculate what efficiency these wires are going to have in their constructions.”

This takes a lot of engineering time, according to Wallace. With five different wire ropes that basically had to have been designed from scratch and no technical data from previous production runs with the same rope to draw upon, everything is theory. Loos draws their own wire. Their raw material is hot-rolled annealed and pickeled rod. From that they make wire before stranding. Each one of these wire ropes had about six to seven different wire sizes in it.

After manufacturing the rope and during Cascade Rigging’s fabrications of the assemblies, one of the specifications on the project was that the wire continued on page 12

continued from page 10 rope be pre-stressed or pre-stretched to 50% of its minimum breaking strength.

The Corps already designed these ropes with a higher than normal breaking strength. The 50% is a higher than normal pre-stretch value. Typcially it’s 40%.

When Bob Cushman at Cascade Rigging first started pre-stretching some of these ropes up to the 50% level he was actually breaking some wires because the wires were already at such a high tensile to meet the higher breaking strength requirements. Loos & Company ended up collaborating with Cascade on these strengths, along with Ulven, to advise the Corps of Engineers that the proof-load of 50% was just taxing the individual wires too much, that they needed to back off on the proofload to 40%.

“The Corps agreed and they changed the requirement to 40%,” says Wallace.

“They just didn’t know and neither did we initially. The lang lay is a construction that stretches a lot more than the right regular lay. It was touch and go there for awhile. We didn’t know if the Corps was going to take our advice and back off on the pre-stretch value; if they didn’t, we didn’t really have anywhere to go because we’d already made

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a whole lot of rope.”

Loos & Company was making rope over a period from September until January, 2011 for this project. Their first shipment to Cascade went out in early October, 2010 and the last was the third week in January. “We could have made the rope more quickly in that period but we didn’t want to put it on the shelf per se and make it all up in advance,” explains Wallace. “We were making this rope up in different lots over a span of about four months, timing it all with how Cascade Rigging figured that they were going to be able to make the assemblies.

“The rope’s been installed and is working and running. That’s a lot of stainless rope; in all, about 40,000 feet.

I’m told it’s not all for use at one time, but some will be used for spares. Everything came through for everyone involved in this project. Bob Cushman and his crew of guys did one heck of a job making these cable assemblies and making everything that they had to do. The physical labor portion of this job was tremendous,” says Wallace. “It was quite a project.”

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and wire ropes. Bob Cushman has done quite a few of these types of jobs over the years in the Willamette Valley, Oregon where his base of operations is located.

Cushman procured all the wire rope from Loos and Company. Seven hundred seventy six different assemblies (a wire rope with the fittings on the ends) were involved in the project, as were some 65,000 feet of stainless steel wire rope. Cascade Rigging cut the rope to length, pre-stretched all the wire, fabricated the lines, tested, certified, and finally packaged it in shipping crates.

There were a total of 1,548 sockets required for the job. The end fittings were cast at Wolf Steel Foundry, one of The Ulven Companies. They cast 1,504 specialized cast end fittings. The others were specialized and machined components.

The Ulven Companies Five companies make up The Ulven Companies, Hubbard, Oregon: Wolf Steel Foundry; Houston Structures; Ulven Forging; Skookum; and Hale Iron. Mike Ulven is the chief operating officer for the group of companies.

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The five companies compliment one another with their own unique talents which together give their customers more process capabilities, according to Severson. The following is an overview of each company: Wolf Steel Foundry has been producing steel castings since 1989. They are a 100% no-bake steel foundry and cast parts using an induction furnace process. They pour low alloy, abrasion resistant, carbon steels, and stainless steels.

They also do custom chemistry materials upon request. Because they have an on-site laboratory, every heat receives chemical analysis. Wolf also provides physical certification, magnetic particle, and radiography testing. Annealing and normalizing heat treat processes are performed on-site, with additional heat treat processes available.

Wolf is in the process of doubling their capacity to casting weights of finished parts up to 2,250 lbs. This is done by adding a new 3,000-pound induction furnace. Despite the current economy, this is a very exciting time for Wolf Steel as they enjoy the opportunity to grow with the demands of their customers, according to Severson.

Houston Structures (HSI) supplies cast, forged machined and fabricated structural support products for small, large and even huge projects throughout the world. This includes products for bridges, hydroelectric and structural projects, mining and more. They have done navigation dams on the Columbia River and a number of other Corps of Engineering projects such as that.

HSI is experienced in project management including project scheduling, quality management, and complete analysis of project requirements. The firm supplies engineering skills to develop a project’s assembly needs and designs, electronic preparation of plans, designs and specs using Solidworks. Load and strength FEA (finite element analysis) for strength determination is used for their entire line of products and for any companies that they work with. They use COSMOS embedded within Solidworks for their simulation work.

Houston Structures joined the Ulven Companies in 1996. “Houston Structures flexes the capabilities of the Ulven Companies manufacturing and engineering base to meet a firm’s projects schedules and demands,” says Severson. “Houston Structures is the common thread that pulls together all the manufacturing bases covering 14

Mike Severson, Houston Structures Project Manager, inspects the stainless cable assemblies on the Kaw Dam in Northern Oklahoma.

cast, forged, machined and fabricated structural cable assemblies. With these capabilities, we feel that we can meet anyone’s projects needs.”

Ulven Forging is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. The company began with open die forging, then gradually added closed die hammer forging, press forging, and upset forging. Ulven uses open die forging to produce larger-size products as well as prototypes and short-run quantities.

Closed-die hammers are used to produce longer runs of forgings from very small high volume items to large industrial sized components. Ulven’s closed die business first exceeded its open die volume in 1996. Press forging is used for medium to high volume production runs, and is set up with automatic bar feed systems and induction heating.

Upset forging is used for both low to high volume runs. In Ulven’s practice, parts are forged in a horizontal position where the work piece is gripped between two grooved dies and deformed by a heading die that exerts force to the end of the stock. Examples of upset forgings include axles, rod ends, eye bolts, and shafts. Ulven’s CNC division offers both lathe and mill CNC operations and manual machining.

Skookum was established in 1890 as a family business and purchased by the Ulven family in 1986. Their comprehensive block, fairlead, sheave, hook, and alloy forging lines have been used in demanding applications around the world.

Having been around for more than a

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century, Skookum has been able to take part in the shaping of American industry, from salvage operations at Pearl Harbor and construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, to San Francisco’s BART system. They serve the logging, maritime, mining, commercial fishing, petroleum, military, and offshore industries.

Hale Iron, another of the Ulven Companies, began as a family business in 1929. With Hale Iron’s recent move to Hubbard, Oregon, the Hale products are now sold under Skookum. Hale Iron specializes in manufacturing master links, pear links and sub assemblies for chain, wire rope and synthetic ropes.

Getting the Parts to their Destination After the parts for each dam were assembled, Severson went back to each one of the dams, as they are contractually obligated to be there when the parts were delivered. Severson has been on the road more than he normally is, as the dams are anywhere from 20 miles apart to 200 miles apart.

The logistics on this job were tough.

The assemblies were shipped by independent trucking companies to each dam. This was very time-sensitive, as the parts had to be at the dam at a certain hour. This involved coordinating the truck’s schedule from Oregon all the way to Oklahoma to make sure its arrival was at the specified hour. Houston Structures had to provide their own fork lifts for the job of unloading the trucks. The Corps of Engineers did a quality check at that point followed by a sign-off procedure.

There is a separate contract for the installation, so Ulven is not responsible for the installation work. The W.D. Mayo Lock and Dam 14 will be installed next. They are releasing contracts as they go forth and cables are received.

The Kaw Lake, found in north central Oklahoma and south central Kansas has had its assemblies all installed already. (For those wanting to catch a glimpse of the original Kaw City Oklahoma, when the waters of Kaw Lake drop unusually low during a drought, a number of the tops of the first Kaw City’s buildings can still be seen just above the surface of the water, reminding us of where the bustling town once stood.) As with all the rest of the dams in the Tulsa Watershed Project, there will be some new wire ropes and fittings to make sure the gates open and close when they should. That’s good news for the folks who operate them, and the surrounding communities. WRN

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Larry Means, the new ASME B30 chairman

by Albert Ostfries

When Larry Means was elected Chairman of the ASME B30 safety committee last summer, he assumed the role at an unusual time. Maybe “unusual” isn’t the perfect adjective to describe his situation.

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he first meeting at which Larry Means presided was the scene of a procedure known as an Appeal, an event which occurs only rarely in the formal proceedings of that committee. It requires the Chairman to function much like a judge in a court of law. The protocol involved is rigid and clearly defined but the B30 committee has a long-standing reputation for fractious behavior. The Chairman, who is required to be completely neutral, must shoulder a pretty heavy burden to maintain control.

The Appeal session, convened at Minneapolis in September 2010, lasted more than five hours according to Kathryn Hyam, the attractive professional engineer who serves ASME as Secretary of the B30 Committee. Larry took command as successor to Paul Zorich who headed the committee for many years. Because of ASME term limits he was no longer eligible to seek re-election in 2010. Paul had handled the Appeals process on previous occasions, but a schedule conflict prevented him from attending Larry’s first meeting to provide assistance if needed.

The concept of an Appeal is one of the many steps constituting the checks and balances of B30. The committee functions as a developmental group within the Codes & Standards activities of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Each of the ASME development committees has a charter requiring it to seek consensus of experts in a field such as design, measurement, maintenance, health, or in the case of B30 – in the field of Safety. The intent is to arrive at a document that will satisfy the requirements of the American National Standards Institute. The Institute has defined “Consensus” as “substantial agreement” but not necessarily unanimity. Obviously a unanimous assent is the best of all worlds, particularly when human safety is at stake.

The safety documents created by the ASME’s B30 committee are not Codes; i.e. they are not enforceable by law.

When ASME was organized originally, in 1880, one of its primary missions was

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Larry Means (r.) in an informal talk with German wire rope expert Roland Verreet.

related to the safety of the boilers used with steam engines. The rules of safe boiler practice devised by ASME were adopted as Codes enforceable by law everywhere in the USA. The success of this effort induced ASME to search for other equipment used by American industrial and construction workers which could benefit from creation of a safety code.

In 1916, cranes and derricks were suggested as a topic of interest.

Beginning with an 8-page draft document, a series of discussions were held from 1920 to 1925 resulting in formation of a committee in 1926, followed by publication of the first set of safety rules, sponsored jointly by ASME and Naval Facilities Engineering Command, continuing in force until 1962.

At that point a major reorganization formed an American national standards committee. This was followed by a second reorganization in 1982 when the committee was accredited by ANSI. By that time the original 8 pages had been expanded into a series of approximately thirty volumes covering advice on safe practices for cableways, cranes, derricks, hoists, jacks and slings, and many other kinds of similar equipment.

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agreement can be steep, rocky, and clogged with brambles. In B30, the process begins when a sub-group evaluates a proposal which can be made by anyone. Committee meetings are open to the general public. The proposal suggests an action such as revising or reaffirming an existing standard, devising a new standard, or withdrawing an obsolete standard. Sub-groups do not need to achieve a consensus. Normally the sub-group decides, after discussion, to either reject the proposal or forward the item to the agenda of the main committee.

In the case of the B30 main committee, the members are technically qualified individuals with a concern and willingness to work within the committee’s charter. To inhibit bias, ASME classifies the members based upon the business interests of each person’s primary source of financial support for their participation. No more than a third of the committee can come from any one classification. In addition to work on safety standards, the committee also controls its own administrative items and personnel actions to assure the published policies of ASME are followed. Another important function is to continued on page 18

continued from page 16 interpret the standards emerging from B30 in response to queries.

Any proposal listed on the agenda is first subjected to open discussion during one or more of three committee meetings held each year at varied locations in the USA. After review, the committee votes to move the item to the status of a ballot, transmitted either on paper or electronically. When the votes are counted, a single disapproval halts the process, but the com-

mittee member in disagreement must provide written explanation of his or her attitude plus suggestions for change. This leads to more discussion in the committee and possible modifications to the proposal. Either way, if it goes out for second ballot, a two-thirds majority of the committee can overturn one or more individual disapprovals.

Anyone still disagreeing has recourse to the Appeal, the outcome of which is to carry the debate onward to a higher level within the Society.

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Means, a well-known wire rope consultant, had some preliminary experiences that may have served him well in the situation. For many years he served as Chairman of the ASME B30.9 subgroup responsible for writing sling safety standards. In that job he inherited a task very few engineers would welcome.

It was a project to create a concordance of the safety advisories for six different varieties of slings commonly used in factories and at construction sites. It was begun when Jeff Klibert chaired B30.9 but when Jeff moved up to be President of Lift-All, his free time became limited, so he was accorded Honorary Member status by B30 and Larry took over B30.9 and the project.

“Larry completed Jeff’s project to the satisfaction of almost everyone” said Don Sayenga, a former committee member who at the time represented AWRF on B30.9. “It was no small task because it involved, among other things, the creation and addition of a new chapter describing safety practices for synthetic roundslings, a popular product that didn’t even exist when the original edition of B30.9 was published many years ago. At the time Larry was representing the Wire Rope Technical Board at the main B30 meetings, but he presented the subcommittee’s views in an unbiased way. That wasn’t easy, but it demonstrated his ability to remain neutral, the most important single attribute for anyone who chairs that committee.”

The term of the B30 Chairman is three years. Following the January 2012 meeting at Phoenix AZ, Larry will have seven more meetings in the chair if he doesn’t have any conflicts resulting from his consulting activities. At that point he will be in the age range where retirement is an attractive option. Becoming the first person from the wire rope industry to chair the committee is a very significant achievement. It remains to be seen if he will seek re-election in 2014. Larry and his wife Betty make their home in St. Joseph MO where he formerly worked for Wire Rope Corporation of America. He received his BS degree from the University of Missouri in 1965 and he’s been a registered professional engineer in Missouri since 1972. He and Betty also distribute the publications of the WRTB. In his spare time he is very active with the Boys Scouts of America.

He is also quite active in their local Church where he has been Chairman of Trustees, Chairman of the Personnel/Parish Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee. WRN

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Western logging industry hangs on, with the use of wire rope cable

By Peter Hildebrandt

In the eastern U.S., chain is the material used for most logging and timber harvesting. But in the Pacific Northwest, where trees grow quite a bit larger, wire rope can be found as a critical component of logging operations.

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imber Supply Company, Philomath, Oregon, is a longtime supplier of wire rope cable to the loggers in the area. “We do a lot of cable logging out here, with yarders,” says Dennis Bennett, Timber Supply Co. owner.

“That is what our main business is, supplying the sky lines, in-haul lines and the chokers for the yarders.”

There’s a little bit of Cat work and skidder work, but there is lots of yarder work in the area, according to Bennett.

Yarders consist of equipment featuring a steel tube that stands up. “Cable runs up through the tube and out into the forest,” explains Bennett. “This setup tail-holds the skyline out into position

and there is a motorized carriage that runs up and down the skyline bringing the logs in from the forest being logged.

It’s a pretty intense deal.”

Much of the logging operations in the Pacific Northwest feature clearcutting. What loggers typically do after the clear-cut has been done is to bring in the yarder equipment, stand the steel tube up, put guy lines out to hold the tube up, run their lines out and get them set. From this standing skyline a motorized carriage is run up and down on the wire rope cables, retrieving logs.

The carriage has a drop line in it with the chokers attached. The drop line comes out of the carriage, choker

An old Berger yarder is being used for skyline logging.

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setters set the chokers, the radio-controlled yarder engineer activates the drop-line in the carriage – this in turn hauls it up into the carriage – and then the yarder pulls the carriage into the landing.

“There are different-sized yarders and it takes different-sized wire rope,” explains Bennett. “Our main wire rope for the skylines is 1” and 1 1/8” right now. Most of my wire rope comes from WRCA. Wire rope dimensions have down-sized quite a bit due to not as much old-growth logging. We used to sell lots of 1 3/8”skyline. But it’s downsized quite a bit with the invention of the swaged ropes; so now our customers can go to a smaller rope also.”

Swaged rope involves taking a piece of wire rope, such as round 1 ¼” wire rope that is then run through a swager. This equipment mashes the rope down and compacts it to 1 1/8”. “You get a lot better wear with this rope,” says Bennett. “It increases your strength and you get more drum capacity.”

This is a logging community; the whole west coast in Oregon is involved with logging, according to Bennett. “It’s slowed down quite a bit with the spotted owl thing. But we are right in the middle of the big timber country. We’ve been in business since 1959 and we stay mostly in the state of Oregon; we go within a one hundred air mile radius of our store, which covers quite a bit of area.”

Work slows down a bit in the wintertime. Located just north of Eugene, Oregon and about five miles from Corvallis, their store is only about

280 feet above sea level so they do not get a lot of snow. Some of the highest peaks in this region of the foothills of the Cascade range are only about 4,000 feet in elevation so loggers are able to work – and stay fairly busy - most of the time because they don’t get a lot of deep snow. But higher up in the Cascade Range itself they do receive a lot of snow causing work to slow down in the winter to a much greater extent.

“Back in the earlier days they didn’t have the radio-controlled carriages as they have today so there was a lot of ground lead logging,” says Bennett.

“They would hook chokers onto the logs and drag them along the ground to pull them into the yarder; they still had the yarders back then. But the ground lead was what they’d use, in addition to a lot bigger ropes. Now they are able to pick the logs up and once you get them off the ground they of course pull a lot easier. That’s why smaller cables are able to be used now.”

When Bennett first started, big chokers, 1” to 1 1/8”were used – lots of them.

Now the standard chokers used are 9/16” to 5/8”. There has been a significant change just because of the newer more modern equipment. Radio-controlled carriages that came out in the early 1970’s are one of the main changes that have in turn changed the sizes of the wire ropes used.

Timber Supply, Inc. has a real good supply of wire rope cable, according to Bennett. “When a customer calls in, say, in the morning, and needs his line right away, scheduling to get it out to him right away is critical. Downtime to him is a big thing. We can get a line ready and get it out to him most of the time the same day.”

Tracy Smouse, owner of Emerald Valley Thinning, Philomath, Oregon says that with the replacing of lines sometimes you can do routine maintenance, get it scheduled in and all that goes well and good, but at other times, you just have a failure during the day and it’s like an SOS call. “We just call up Dennis to tell him we need this in the morning, Timber Supply scrambles around to get it ready and do the best they can to get it there.

We try to change the wire rope cables out periodically as needed, but when you have a failure, you can’t wait and schedule a replacement. It’s got to happen right now.”

Things also depend upon the type of problem involving the wire rope. “If it’s just plum worn out and you can’t splice it, if it got cut or damaged on something, you can cut the bad part out and

splice it yourself in the brush and continue on for a few days until you get a replacement line there. This depends on the type of problem, whether you wore the rope out or ruined a thousand feet of it burning it over a rock somewhere - you’re not going to repair that.”

Emerald has a mechanized side in their operations that doesn’t use any cables. But their two yarder operations use a lot of cable, according to Smouse.

The TTY-70 has 2,500 feet of 1 1/8” sky line onboard the drum. Then there is 3,000 feet of ¾” skidding line, 4,500 feet of ¾” haul back line. A carriage runs back and forth on that and picks the logs up out of the canyon.

The haul back line is used in places where no gravity is able to ship the carriage back out. At these places the haul back line is used to pull the carriage back out. It goes clear around, goes back into to the landing and hooks on the back of the carriage, in case an operator has to go uphill or doesn’t have enough deflection to pull the carriage back out, according to Smouse.

Smouse mentions that clear-cutting is usually referred to as a final harvest. “Currently we’re mainly involved in the final harvest stage, but we have done a lot of cable thinning in the past with our 16 employees. “There are a lot of people out here that do thinning on the first entry into a stand of timber to improve it. On a lot of the steeper slopes it requires wire rope cable to do that work.

“At 20 years, the forest landowner is looking at a first entry thinning.

There’s no return on that. You’re doing it for management. Then once the stand gets up around 30 years they may do a second entry just to improve the stand – or they may not. They may just want to let it go depending on the landowner’s preference. Some of them have a 30 year rotation, some 40, some 50; it simply depends on where you are at with your sustainable yield.”

When asked about the challenges of weather, Smouse says that where they are working, weather’s not much of a factor. “You may lose a week in the middle of the wintertime,” he says.

“It used to be with the big timber you could hardly bury it in the snow. But now with the smaller timber, a foot or eighteen inches of snow is enough to hide the logs. You have to wait. We have anywhere from 40 to 100 acres cut and laying on the ground and if you get 12 inches of snow laying on the timber it makes it hard to find all the pieces.

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continued from previous page and the west side of the Willamette Valley, we don’t get prolonged snowpack in the lower elevations.”

Smouse’s operations have had radiocontrolled carriages for awhile now.

He can remember the days when such equipment was not used. Motorized carriages were coming into use in the early 1970s. That is around the time when a lot of places were getting out of the big timber and into the secondgrowth stands and the motorized carriages were more productive. The motorized carriages run on the skyline, travelling back and forth.

Swaged cable allowed everybody to use a smaller diameter cable in place of what they previously had. All this did was to allow people to reach out further. Yarders that normally would Large skyline yarder at work. only have had 2,000 feet of cable on them now can get 2,400 to 2,500 feet of Weist Logging has been around cable on them with the same strength since before the motorized remote carand weight. Choker sizes vary relative riages were used. Some of the motorto the stand of timber you are doing the ized carriages will actually pull the work in. If you are in timber with a 36- skid line right through so it’s not a inch average DBH (diameter at breast self-contained carriage, not loaded height) you’re probably going to use with line, but instead pulls the line ¾” or 7/8” chokers. If you’re in timber right off of the yarder. It has pulleys that’s 18-inch DBH you are probably and little Acme pulls use pressure and going to have ½” or 9/16” choker.

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ally pull the slack for the operator.

It’s pulling your skid line off of your machine. But in the case of the Boman Motorized carriage, the wire rope cable coils right on that machine. It is a self-contained carriage.

“More often than not we are involved in clear cutting operations in this part of the world,” says Rocky Sapp, ofcontinued on page 24

continued from page 22 fice manager for Weist Logging, Inc., whose owner is Kevin Weist. “We log in both the Coastal Range and Cascade Range. When we give them enough time, Timber Supply is able to replace lines for us. But there are times when if one parts in the middle, you don’t splice skylines. With our 2,000 foot line on our small yarders you could need a new line at any given time. On the bigger yarders we use tags on the back end where you’re not logging but it still takes – with the motorized carriage – a long piece of line on the machine to create accomplishment there.”

Weist Logging deals with snow during the wintertime and then in fire season work is limited to one o’clock closure depending on the fire rating. With their work on the coast they aren’t hindered by the fire restrictions too badly.

“One challenge for us sometimes is stabilizing the system,” says Sapp. “To try and stand a 100-foot yarder in the air with wire rope you must have solid stumps to be able to tie everything down. It seems like we’re re-harvesting older plantations now with Weyerhaeuser interested in the smaller logs today that are 50 years old. But this in turn doesn’t really give you good

enough stumps to tie your yarders down on.

“That’s a rather large challenge, to either bury old equipment - we use heavy old CATS, track machines with a blade on the front that you can dig in and use as an anchor. Generally our anchor points have been great big green stumps; but if there aren’t any stumps you’ve got to figure out another way to do that.”

Using the stumps to tie down the yarders has been done by notching the stump and wrapping the wire rope around it before shackling it back into itself. The terrain Weist Logging works in is generally steep and choppy, according to Sapp. They set a yarder up on one ridge top, stretch the line out to the next ridge top and log everything in between. Sometimes that means a mile of line. “It takes a rather large machine to pick up a mile of 1 1/4” steel line,” adds Sapp. “You have to have good lines, have to have the strength there whether it’s a motorized carriage or not. You have people on the ground working around it and you simply cannot neglect to take care of your line.

“The skycars put another machine out there. The young fellows we hire off the street today kind of feel like they’re

running yet another video game; you have radio-controlled carriages, they’re standing there pushing buttons watching the work being done. You’ve still got to drag the line from the carriage to the log to wrap the choker around it and then get the heck out of the way, but it’s pretty cool to watch.”

Weist Logging has been around since 1984 and still pecks away in a tough economy. They have four yarders and 25 workers. They’re working three of them today and a shovel site. It takes eight or nine guys on the ground with the yarder side. They have a processor, a machine that limbs, and BUCKS a tree length tree into logs before a shovel loads the logs on the truck. Most everything they’re doing is tree length.

“Though the old hand axes are gone, the big trees still have to be cut with a power saw,” says Sapp. “There are still big trees out there and we’re still working them part of the time. The branches are trimmed once the tree is on the ground. Contrary to the public belief, we are still growing trees in Oregon. It’s like a garden. Manage your ground and it will continue to produce – and wire rope cable is still used out here and remains critical to all our operations.” WRN

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The latest and greatest high-tech gimmick

by Michael J. Major

The new Great Hype Hope is called Near Field Communication (NFC). This will, in effect, put your credit cards into your smart phone, and make it easier to pay your bills. But will it also cost you more, in more ways than one?

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he latest in high-tech communication gagetry, about to flood the U.S. market, is called Near Field Communication (NFC). In its most basic meaning, NFC is a mechanism for payment which, as opposed to the magnetic stripe on a plastic card, is embedded in the software inside a cell or smart phone. NFC is both contactless and transactional, contactless since it is not swiped through a device as is a credit or debit card, but simply waved close to the device, and transactional since this simple motion automatically

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transfers funds from the user to the designated merchant or other party.

But this seemingly innocuous function has the potential for doing much more than maintain its proponents, all for the good, though maybe also not too good, says someone like myself. Here I’ll state my disclaimer, dispensing with the pen name I usually use for this publication to use my real name. For I’m also dispensing with the detatched objective tone I use for most of my article writing to expose my personal bias. While I recognize the value that high-tech devices can bring in certain specific instances, I generally feel they are over-used, end up cost­ing more in time and effort and money than the benefits, and often bring in their wake real harm. Although I’ve been forced to adapt to computers to the extent that I email my articles to editors, I outsource this task, and won’t touch a computer myself. I don’t “do” email. You won’t find me as a friend on Facebook. I don’t have a smart phone, or even a cell phone.

In fact, I don’t even have a TV. That said, here is a little background on NFC from some experts who are familiar with this technology, who believe in it, where it’s headed, and the benefits promised. This will be followed by my less than enthusiastic comments.

Tim Lindner, principal, Lindner Technology Representation LLC, Cold Spring, NY, points out, “NFC is new to the U.S., but it is not a new technology. It’s very robust, and has long been adapted by much of the rest of the world and is used on a daily basis.” NFC was pioneered in Japan in the early 1990s, and has really picked up momen­tum in about the past ten years, having become commonplace throughout Western Eruope and much of Asia. NFC has now become standardized to meet the requirements of ISO and a number of other international reg­ulatory bodies.

The Japanese railways, which first utilized plastic cards as a faster way

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to get people through the turnstyles then moved on to NFC as an even faster method. This spread to the computer purchasing a newspaper, donut, or other concessions. The ease-of-use encouraged the consumer to use NFC more, and thus spend more. As other merchants saw the value of the technology, the more it spread. And, while many U.S. businesses, with the introduction of NFC to this country, have a lot of catching up to do to accelerate their learning curve, this has already been accomplished by some international companies such as Mac-Donald’s and Coke in their foreign outlets.

Now, as explains Lindner, a consumer in Japan can go up to a red dispenser, move it close to or touch it with his smart phone, and out comes a Coke.

This, however, is only a start. Lindner spins the following scenario: “Suppose you are in a bus stop you’re routinely at waiting to go home after work, and this stop is in front of a convenience store.

You see an ad which can make make you one of Coke’s valued customers and give you a dis­count by simply touching your phone to the ad,” says Lindner. “If a Coke seems good to you then, you’re apt to take advantage of it.”

But, since the NFC is equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS), the Coke marketeers know your exact physical location and date and time you took advantage of the offer. You’re then targeted to receive a message from Coke as being one of their valued customers, able to easily receive more such discounts. Coke may not know any­thing else about you but, if you go along, will very soon find out your name and everything else it wants to know about you.

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continued from page 26 tomers in its loyalty problem. NFC will give it multiple opportunities to further reach these customers. An individual vendor, such as Coke, however, whether it offers its discounts through stores or in newspaper inserts or other direct mail, has the latter pro­cessed in huge centers in Texas or Florida, but has no way of knowing just who purchased its products. Now, however, it appears that NFC will let them know about your demographic profile. “This is the Holy Grail merchants see at the end of NFC,” Lindner says.

In agreement is Robert P. Sabella, CEO/founder, OTA Training, LLC, Dallas, TX. “The data the user provides in purchasing through NFC not only ties the person to the location in a way to effect pur­chasing, it can integrate this payment information into a higher level of integration by incorporating the user experience with existing social media.”

Therefore, you have the potential of a wide range of vendors of goods and services targeting individuals in a more immediate and com­prehensive way than traditional forms of marketing, even more than the social networks such as Facebooks, which can also be utilized.

So, what this means to you, the consumer, is added convenience. NFC becomes, what Lindner terms, “an electronic wallet,” since it re­places a wallet filled with plastic cards.

You easily become a valued customer at the stores where you shop and for the products you purchase, automatically taking advantage on all discounts.

To turn to the NFC use in healthcare, the benefits to the consumer are even more striking. In terms of payment, which usually involves both the patient and an insurance co-payer, the technology is ideal primarily because there is a single unique patient identifier. This, in itself, solves the multiple

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complexities resulting from the many laws designed to protect a person’s medical confidentiality. It also simplifies the connections between the patient and his insurance co-payer.

Since hospitals have so routinely overcharged Medicare pa­ tients, a separate government monitoring agency has been established, with a continually going back and forth between what the actual costs should be, what Medicare and the patient have been billed, with the various corrections - it appears this expanse of needless paperwork may be simplified as well.

But of more interest to John Peeters, president/founder of the Washington, DC-based Gentag, Inc., are what he calls the “disposable diagnostic” capabilities of NFC, many of which he has developed. “The technology can be applied to almost anything,” Peeters says. “For instance, if a patient is discharged from the hospital and needs to have his temperature checked every six hours for six months, the sensor in the cell phone can be programmed to do just that.” The wire­less thermometer will not only automatically register the patient’s temperature, it will also automatically transmit the data back to and update the patient’s hospital records. A similar application, says Peters, “is measuring a diabetic patient for glucose levels.

Just put the cell phone close to the skin to get and transmit the reading. It’s really simple.”

Whereas measuring temperature of glucose levels or other standard procedures, there are some conditions which are more variable and complex. An entirely new application Peeters has recently accounced “is really exciting for it’s a way to measure compartment syndrome in a way that’s not been done before.”

Peeters explains that compartment syndrome is the trauma that can develop as the result of, say, a broken leg, which has been sub­jected to surgery then put in a cast. As a result of the pressure of the skin against the cast rising from too much swelling, you can have a trauma which chokes off the blood supply in that area, turning an apparently successful surgery into a failure. “The idea we developed was to supply the patient with the sensor. If he doesn’t have a NFC phone, give him one. The patient can then be discharged.

Compart­ment syndrome monitoring typically costs $4,000 for 12 hours. But now the patient can monitor the pressure itself. With a very low cost.”

In terms of drug prescriptions, Peeters points out that NFC not only prevents fraud but may also curtail the fraud already rampant in this area. “Again, each of the sensors has a unique iden­tification or identifier, so no two will ever be the same,” says Peeters. “We see this technology working with the pharmacy. The cell phone will give the timing for taking the pills, running the costs along with the reminders.

When the supplies run out, the cell phone becomes a gate way to resupplying. Again, it’s a very secure technology, first meant for banking.”

As has been widely reported, prescription drugs like Oxycotin have entered the black market and, in many respects, become more addictive and difficult to apprehend than criminalized drugs. Why this won’t happen with NFC, and what might make this platform the re­quired one for dispensing prescription drugs, are the overlays which can be very inexpensively applied.

For instance, not only the pill package, but also the location can be authenticated. A pill container is not only traced to one per­son, but also, through its GPS system, to a single location. So it’s going to be known if it shows up in India, or even downtown. The patient may be required to take the continued on page 30

continued from page 28 medications in his own home, at the required times. In fact, if necessary, even a camera can be overlaid on the technology, again, at a cheap cost, to make sure the person taking the pills is the one the healthcare provider intended them for.

“Other advantages are that the technology is based on all of the international standards, such as ISO, and accredited for medical use worldwide,” Peetrs says. “There are no interference issues. It does not interfere with the skin or medical devices, and can be adapted to any sensor medical device or application.”

So, those are the benefits of NFC for you, the consumer. In the commercial arena, there is the convenience of easy payment plus the ability to take part in a variety of discounts. In the healthcare world, for certain illnesses or physical conditions, add the ability to self monitor, saving considerable time and expense of going to the doctor.

But the achingly obvious question to be raised here is the one not considered. And that is, was NEC invented and utilized for the benefit of the consumer or the banks, merchants, and healthcare providers who control it?

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The answer is so obvious that it need not be stated. But keep this in mind as we go to the next question.

How much advertising can consumers be inundated with before tuning out? Traditional forms of advertising, such as direct mail, TV, and magazine/newspaper have increased to annoying levels. But how effective has all this been? It appears that leading magazines and newspapers are routinely going out of business for want of ad­vertising which is headed more and more to cyber space. But just how happy are consumers having their computers clogged with a phenomenon now termed “junk mail?” In other words, how happy will the person be whenever he turns on his cell phone to find he has to wade through dozens of advertisers trying to get his attention?

In short, will that many people actually use NFC? Sabella responds to this question by saying, “I think NFC will follow the arc of many new technologies. It will start with a lot of excitement, simmer down as people realize it’s not the greatest invention since white bread, then gradually pick up momentum. Younger people, more in tune with smart phones, will be the biggest initial users. But, ul-

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timately, there won’t be any choice. For the NFC technology will be built into every smart phone. NFC’s widespread use is ‘inevitable.”

Inevitable. Ahhhhh ... Though the initial target is initially smart phones, is there any reason that the technology, being so cheap, will not then be installed in regular cell phones, and then land phones?

This leads back to a consideration of the Holy Grail that Lindner spoke of, when businesses and banks will have every bit of data about your life, both professional and personal, shattering any pretense at privacy even more throughly than social media such as Facebook have done, and have been so thoroughly criticized for doing so.

It appears that, as Lindner explains, there are a number of com‑ peting forces for this Holy Grail, and the situation is, at the moment, “chaotic.” For those fighting to control this technology include, for a start, the telephone consortium, ISIS Mobile, made up of AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile, who have partnered with the Discover card. There there is the Master/Visa Card combination, which wants to maintain its dominent position. Plus there are serious threats from independents such as Apple and Google. Then there are the various bank consortiums, with no doubt many more entering or soon to enter the fray.

To look at just one ramification, merchants currently pay fees to the bank issuing the credit card ranging from 2% to 4%. If the consumer pays his credit card on time every month, he is not charged, so the merchant typically raises the prices of his goods to cover this expense. The other convenient path has been the debit card, which requires not a percentage, but a flat fee of 12¢. Credit cards are still the most widely used, due to the cultural influences and habit. But debit cards have rapidly been gaining, especially from the recession, in which many credit cards are maxed out.

“In Congress today, there is a subcommittee looking at whether a percentage of the transaction should be allowed,” Lindner says. “Suppose only 12¢ per transaction is allowed, with no more per­centages. The problem is with the NFC capability. The question is, how will a payment be settled? As with a credit or debit card? Does the consumer choose? Or the mobile carrier? For suppose only the 12¢ per transaction is allowed, but no more

percentages. And suppose NFC supercedes even that 12¢ per transaction. This means that everything in banking now free, might not be free.

There’s a lot at stake here.”

In other words, to make up for lost credit and debit card revenues where are banks likely to turn for money they so desperately need to keep from applying for food stamps? The distinct possibility is that banks will start charging consumers a percentage of checks deposited or cashed. As a reward for being suckered into spending more money recklessly, consumers will end up spending much more than the illusion they thought they were saving, and do so most conveniently.

Then there is the even more serious question of privacy rights. True, NFC is touted as being totally secure, which it is, from most other parties who might want this information.

But what about the government? Of course, the government use of this information could be deemed illegal.

But so were unauthorized phone taps.

That didn’t stop the Bush Administration from the widespread break­age of this law under false pretexts. So, could an unintended con­sequence of NFC be Big Brother? Bin Laden found out the hard way that any electronic device could be tracked. If the government can commandeer phone companies for the private phone records of thousands of Americans simply because they said something unkind about a public official or for no reason at all, the government can certainly take over NFC, either openly or covertly. The government will know everything about you, including your exact movements every moment of the day, as well as photograph you at will.

The situation is even more ominous when it comes to healthcare. As is becoming increasingly well known through writers like Helen Epstein, as in the May 12, 2011 issue of The New York Review Of Kevin Trudeau Books, and especially whistleblower in his books, such as Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About, most medical journals receive half or more of their income from pharmaceutical companies, and dozens of other medical publishers also provide marketing services to Big Pharma. University medical research is almost totally funded by Big Pharma. Almost all of the published research is paid for by Big Pharma.

Doctors are routinely paid bonuses to prescribe new and untried drugs. At best, drugs only alleviate symptoms,

but all undermine health, many seriously so, with deadly consequences.

And the so-called oversight agency FDA is largely subsidized by Big Pharma. As one FDA offical once told me, in an unexpected moment of candor, “All drugs have side effects.”

Since the medical profession (with some individual exceptions) is, for all intents and purposes, a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Pharma, then the fact of NFC monitoring, as described above, appears in a somewhat different light. Since doctors are highly

motivated to administer toxic chemicals under the guise of medication, NFC not only makes it easier to do so, but also makes it easier to monitor patients and so force them to take their poison for the greater good of Big Pharma. Even Orwell would have blanched at that.

So, when you hear the pitch of how important it is for you to get your NFC smart phone, think about whether you want to become a part of that group which Phineas Taylor Barnum said one “is born every minute.” WRN

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The Gem of the Port turns 60 Traveling North or South on Anaheim St. through the Port of Los Angeles, a landmark for many years has been the six story testing tower bearing the words “Testing Facility”.

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By Michael J. Major

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s a small business owner, how would you like to have, for the cost of one of your new employees, a full-time human resources staff; a staff that handles all of your tax, regulatory, and compliance requirements, plus all of your other paperwork; the ability to offer your employees the full range of health, insurance, and retirements at the same low rates as Fortune 500 companies, and more?

All of this is now available through what is called a Professional Employer Association (PEO).

In brief, this is how it works. A small business with, say, roughly 3 to 30 employees, has, by definition, not enough manpower to handle the overwhelming amount of paperwork required today. A PEO, on the other hand, typically has hundreds of small businesses as clients, and so is relating to thousands of employees. Since the PEO already has the machinery, especially technical machinery, in place to provide services on this scale, it can add a new client at relatively small cost to it­s elf, along with a good profit.

The small business, on the other hand, gets the advantages of all the cost savings which would otherwise be accessible only to giant corporations.

The source for the information in this article, Joseph W. Cole, interim CEO/president of the National As34

sociation of Profes­s ional Employer Associations (NAPRO), Alexandria, VA, was the head of a PEO in Columbus, OH from 2002 to February, 2011 when he started his present position. Thus he has been closely involved in the growth of this new phenomenon. For most of the 700 PEOs throughout the country were started between 1995 and 2000.

Cole explains that the forerunner of the current PEO had somewhat questionable beginnings about 25-years ago. They were called employee leasing companies. What would happen is that the small business would fire its employees, who would be hired by the leasing company that would then offer the employees preferential treatment in terms of benefits. Cole describes this sleight-of-hand, charitably, as “taking advantage of a tax loophole.”

This type of venture came to an end in 1992 with the passage of

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the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) of 1992. A key provision of TEFRA was section 414(n) under which, in the IRS code, dual benefit structures were no longer permissible. The loophole was closed.

Yet out of this failure there grew, paradoxically, a new concept, co-employment, which is IRS-approved, is strictly legitimate, and is the basis for the PEO as it is known today. Under the co-employment model, there is a contractual relationship between the PEO and small business, which clearly delegates who is the employer for what cir­c umstances, and what are the obligations and responsibilities.

Before turning to the mutual benefits to both sides, Cole first draws a broad historical perspective, to show why such a re­l ationship is especially needed and timely in today’s economy.

“What drove the economy 150 years ago was agriculture,” says Cole. “Then came the industrial revolution, especially as demon­s trated

by Henry Ford. Here the worker did repetitive tasks and was there only to serve the system, which was based on the capital equipment.

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It’s not a matter of if, but when.

So now the most important factor in having a sustaining role in the marketplace is having the right people aligned with the organization’s objectives and goals.”

This concept arose in the corporate towers and was given the name of human capital, Cole says. He adds that a related idea also came into being, given the fancy name of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), more commonly known as outsourcing.

BPO or outsourcing is commonly understood to result from the realization that an organization, to be successful, should concen­t rate on its core competencies. The many secondary aspects of run­n ing a business are time-consuming, distract both managers and workers from doing what they do best, so should, whenever feasible, be turned over to outside specialists.

In other words, these two mod-

ern concepts of human capital and outsourcing began in large corporations, and have trickled down to PEOs as their foundations for helping small businesses compete on an equal level with the giants.

Although there are some overlaps, here are some of the main advantages that a small business can achieve by teaming up with a PEO: As Cole puts it, a small business can have the equivalent of a fully staffed human resource (HR) department. To start with, the PEO HR personnel will help the business owner to put together a comprehensive handbook, including clear job descriptions, with the defining of the roles and responsibilities of each worker in that business, and making sure the employee goals align with the company’s goals.

HR helps train the supervisor, as well as set up employee performance standards, and show managers how to do an effective performance evaluation. Whereas, in a large corporation a dis­g runtled employee might be able to avoid a direct confrontation with his boss by walking down the hall to the HR department, that option is not typi-

cally available in a small business.

With this new system, the employee might not be able to just walk down the hall, but he can pick up the phone, and have an objective source mediate the misunderstandings before they get out of control or fester in an unproductive manner. “All of this helps to create a good company culture and attract top employees,” Cole says.

Another key way of attracting and retaining quality employees, Cole continues, is through offering a wide range of health and welfare benefits, which, because of its economies of scale, the PEO can offer at comparable savings rates to the major corporations.

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termine the total compensation he employee. The PEO will maintain is offering, not simply in terms of and manage the employee’s file wages, but all these other benefits from his being hired to his leaving the company. Along the way, many as well,” says Cole.

The 401K plan is also a part of this other compliance structures have to package, Cole adds. He points to be met, such as those having to do the Pension Protection Act of 2006, with equal opportunity for women, which lists a lot of requirements for minorities, the aged, disabled, and an employer offering this plan. The others.

The PEO provides the company’s PEO will provide registered investment advisors to meet all of the re- payroll services, but not just that, quirements of this new law to help Cole says, for also included are payguide and monitor investments, as roll related taxes. In fact, and this well as being in charge of all the ad- is perhaps the greatest compliance bookkeeping benefit - the PEO is reministrative paperwork.

Administration generally, espe- sponsible for and, in fact, liable to cially of all of the paperwork now re- the IRS for all the small business’ quired, which most small business- taxes. The PEO collects the taxes es say they are being over­w helmed owed from the owner, of course, but with, is another burden taken on by the latter is freed from all of the the PEO. Cole points out that just headaches of figuring out and feelin the past 10 years or so, required ing anxious about his taxes.

All of this administrative work documentation simply regarding employees, has grown consider- ties into the high-tech services ably. When an employee first starts which the PEO offers. This includes already required are a number of all of HR manage­m ent programs documentations, in­c luding birth encompassing the life cycle of the certificate and citizenship papers, employee, a sophisticated CRM or employment ver­i fication, driver’s client relationship management license, passport, and armed forc- program, as well as all of the docues records. A separate file has to ment management. For instance, every beCW_AD111308:Layout set up and maintained for each3:09 1 11/17/08 PM time Page an 1 employee goes to HR

with a problem, this is documented by the number of times not only one but also any employee makes this contact, as well as the categories of the problems addressed.

“All paper-based files are digitized and stored electronically, so that, like any good Fortune 500 company, the small business owner can put his hands on important documents quickly,” says Cole.

Though there are many things the PEO will do, there are some, explains, Cole, that the PEO will not do, and are the sole responsibility of the employer. For instance, legal help varies according to the situation. In an area like equal opportunity, an employee complaining of sexual harassment will find the employer aided by the PEO in terms of offering legal advice, and even, in some cases, providing the lawyers for trial should it come to that.

However, in the area of workplace safety, the employer is solely responsible. The PEO will help in terms of setting up safety programs and training, as well as providing workman’s compensation insurance.

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continued from previous page site, he is not responsible. Nor is the PEO responsible for the day-to-­d ay operations, as well as the hiring or termination of employees.

A PEO can probably benefit most small businesses, Cole says. But not everybody. “If the employer likes to operate in the grey areas in which he thinks he does not have to adhere to the letter of the law, the relationship won’t work,” Cole says. “For a PEO is very conservative and has all of his systems set up to be in strict compliance with the law.”

Also, although it’s a truism that usually happens to be true, when most employers says their success depends on their employees, some have a different attitude. “There are some employers who say that they would do away with employees if they could,” says Cole. “Those employers who do not appreciate their employees and do the best for them, so they can find and retain the best employees, would not be a good match for a PEO.” Also, there are some small family businesses, some in the second or third generation, or even older, who

have their niche, have always been small, and want to stay small. Although Cole believes some of these businesses may benefit by partnering with a PEO, he says, “Generally, the success of a small business means the success of a PEO. The more the business succeeds, the same with the PEO. Growth is not a bad thing.”

To what degree can a small business negotiate with a PEO, to accept some services which he wants, but to reject others that he feels he doesn’t need? Cole’s response is that though different PEOs have different parameters, and some may be willing to make minor modifications, for most it’s a package deal, all or nothing. The reason, he explains, is that the PEO has millions invested in all of its various processes and procedures. To cut back here or there would involve them in complications and also hurt their bottom line.

The cost to the small business employer?

Some PEOs work on the basis of maybe a 2 to 3 percent of the company’s gross income. For others the cost generally ranges from $1000

to $2000 per employee per year.

This breaks down to roughly $85 to $165 per employee per month or $20 to $40 a week. Another way of looking at this is if a business has 15 employees, the cost of a PEO would range from about $12,000 to $24,000 per year.

Since PEOs are a new phenomenon, most of the approximately 70 nationwide, having come into existence between 1995 to 2000, it’s still a young industry. Cole says that membership has grown primarily through word-of-mouth, but large scale marketing and public relations campaigns are still in the future. Penetration is still very small, on a national level between 3 and 5 percent, with the exceptions of Florida and Texas, where the range is roughly between 10 to 15 percent.

But, though the market share of PEOs is presently low, there are plenty out there willing to offer the small business owner a wide array of services right now.

To find a PEO in your geographical region, search by state and county through napeo.org. WRN

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Is this a good time to invest in used equipment?

If you plan to stay in business, the answer is yes.

By Michael J. Major “Those going under are selling their equipment, and those sur­viving are buying it,” says Bo Kentner, operations manager for the Wilmington, CA-based Coordinated Companies, part of whose business is devoted to buying used equipment, renovating and repairing it, and then reselling it.

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here’s not a better time to buy used equipment, especially fabricating equipment,” Kentner says. “Obviously there’s been a recession, and a lot of companies aren’t going to make it. When­ever a company goes under, there’s more equipment on the market and that greatly reduces pricing.” In fact, Kentner continues, a com­pany doesn’t have to go out of business to start unloading equipment. Some, depending on their situation, see the best way to survive econ­omic hard times is to downsize, return to core values, and get rid of everything that serves a secondary purpose. On the other hand, you have some companies who are in a position to take advantage of the situation, and get larger and stronger so they have more production capabilities when the economy comes back.

“These different philosophies go side by side,” Kentner says.

“I’ve seen three recessions over the years, and you always have the thinning of the pack, with some companies getting stronger.”

In addition to fabricating equipment, Kentner sees more drilling and reeling machines, along with presses and testing equipment. “Over the past year we’ve also purchased a pressure lubricator and compressor,” says Kentner. “We get the equipment at a good price, fix it up, and are still able to sell it to riggers at a good price while making a decent profit for ourselves.”

What adds a dimension to this picture, Kentner says, is that equipment manufacturers are affected by the recession just like every­one else. Manufacturers, if they don’t shut down, downsize, and so reduce capacity. This means they don’t have much of a backlog of products, and, once the economy picks up, it will take them awhile to return to their prior capacity.

“Riggers who have been through recessions before understand this, so they want to plan ahead and get used equipment so that when their customers start buying at their previous levels again, they will have the capacity to service them.”

Coordinated also, in addition to selling used equipment, rents it as well. In fact, says Kentner, “There’s been a definite upswing in renting compared to buying. And it’s funny because the cost of renting will parallel or exceed purchasing. Those renting are doing so to save money, but by the tjme the contract is over, they will have spent what they could previously have used to purchase the equipment.”

Coordinated is a multi-faceted company which does more than simply buy and refurbish equipment to resell or rent to riggers.

It does something similar for products such as winches and hoists. The company also is a rigger itself, fabricating all sorts of pro­ducts for lifting, as well providing full testing services.

Has this diversification rendered Coordinated immune to the recession? “In an economy like this, all aspects of our group have been affected,” Kentner replies. “Our goal has been not to down­ size or lay people off, and we’ve been able to achieve this andso be ready to take advantage of better times when they arrive.

When asked when he thinks these better times will return, Kentner says, “I think there are glimmers. Some positive things have been forecast for the first and second quarters of 2012.

There are some commercial project which have been on hold for a long time which are starting up. And there are definitely going to be some big construction projects. These will involve cranes and lifts, as well as many people coming off unemployment. So this broader recovery will favorably affect wire rope.”

In summing up, Kentner says, “If you need something shortterm, and want to return it without making a capital investment, then you should rent. But if you do want to make a return on invest­ment and would like quality used equipment to substitute for what you would ordinarily buy new in better times, then the way to go is purchasing the used equipment. But one thing you should make sure you do is determine that the equipment has been thoroughly tested and certified. That way you can be sure the product will work out the way you want it to, and you will have peace of mind.” WRN

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Preliminary steel imports down 10% in November

Import market share at 20% Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that the U.S. imported a total of 2,107,000 net tons (NT) of steel in November (down 10%), including 1,646,000 NT of finished steel (down 13%) vs. the October final data. Annualized total and finished steel imports in 2011 would be 28.8 and 22.1 million NT, respectively, up 21% and 17% vs. 2010. Finished steel import market share in November was an estimated 20% and is 22% year-todate (YTD).

Key finished steel products with significant import increases in November 2011 compared to October include plates in coils (up 15%) and reinforcing bars (up 10%). Major products with significant YTD import increases vs. the same period last year include cut length plates (up 61%), plates in coils (up 37%), line pipe (up 31%), hot rolled bar (up 28%) and oil country goods (up 22%).

In November, the largest volumes of finished steel imports from offshore were from South Korea (193,000 NT, down 10%), Japan (115,000 NT, down 6%), The Netherlands (108,000 NT, up 84%), China (82,000 NT, down 29%) and India (66,000 NT, up 49%).

For the first 11 months of 2011, the largest offshore suppliers have been South Korea (2,634,000 NT, up 43%), Japan (1,349,000 NT, up 10%) and

China (1,144,000 NT, up 44%). Below are charts on estimated steel import market share in recent months and on

finished steel imports from offshore by country.

USTR report gives focus to concerns repeatedly raised

by AISI on China’s significant non-compliance issues, 10 years after its accession to WTO

The U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) Report to Congress on China’s WTO Compliance catalogues continued and egregious non-compliance by China with trade obligations it agreed to upon its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). These violations are not new and the market distortions caused by these practices have been repeatedly raised by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), according to Thomas J. Gibson, AISI president and CEO. In fact, according to USTR’s report, the degree of government control and intervention in markets and trade is growing worse, not better. China’s failure to uphold its WTO commitments continues to harm U.S. manufacturers, Gibson said, which should compel the Administration to move 42

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forward with an effective plan of action to achieve significant and long-overdue trade reforms by China.

“We are pleased that the Administration has given focus to the same significant protectionist policies by China that the steel industry has repeatedly highlighted as creating harmful trade distortions, and which remain unresolved,” Gibson said. “These include massive government subsidies to, and continued control of, China’s stateowned enterprises (SOEs); China’s restrictive measures to secure access to raw materials; undervaluation of its currency; and the failure to protect intellectual property rights.”

“Since China joined the WTO, 2.8 million U.S. jobs have been lost or displaced, including 1.9 million in manufacturing. The U.S. trade deficit with China has soared from $83 billion in 2000 to over $273 billion in 2010. So far this year, it is running about 12% higher than last year,” he said.

“The report rightfully raises concerns about the growing role of “state capitalism” and SOEs in China and the fact that they have moved away in recent years from reform and market-oriented policies,” Gibson said. “In fact, the report points out that in recent years

China seems to be embracing state capitalism more strongly, rather than continuing to move toward the economic reform goals that originally drove its pursuit of WTO membership.”

“In addition, the report draws attention to the harmful continuance of raw material export barriers, the imposition of a trade-distortive system of iron ore import licensing, the use of differential border measures to promote higher value exports, trade-distorting industrial policies for New Energy Vehicles, and the abuse of AD/CVD rules, procedures and processes,” he said. “By persisting with these practices, China is in direct non-compliance with its WTO commitments.”

Gibson said in addition to ongoing efforts by the Administration to achieve reform of China’s trade-distorting practices through dialogue, the Treasury secretary should declare China a currency manipulator and support congressional legislation to provide a remedy against the injurious effects of Chinese currency manipulation.

“While it is essential to work with China to reduce its market access barriers and to promote market-oriented trade and economic policies ,” Gibson said, “it will take more than dialogue to

resolve existing concerns with China’s trade and industrial policy regime.”

Along with USTR’s indication that it will invoke the dispute settlement mechanism at the WTO where appropriate, Gibson said it is essential that the Administration continue to rigorously enforce U.S. trade remedy laws when U.S. interests are being harmed by unfairly traded or surging imports from China.

AISI commends Congressman Rahall for introducing the Invest in American Jobs Act of 2011

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) commended Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV) for introducing, The Invest in American Jobs Act of 2011, a common sense bill designed to strengthen existing Buy America requirements for investments in transportation and infrastructure to ensure that the steel and iron used in these projects is produced in the United States.

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continued from previous page California Department of Transportation to a Chinese steel fabricator,” Gibson said. “By segmenting the project, the State of California managed to evade the application of existing Buy America requirements, which require that all steel and iron used to construct federally-funded highway projects be produced in the United States.”

“Rep. Rahall’s bill ensures that highway and bridge projects cannot be segmented to evade Buy America requirements. It also imposes great-

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er transparency in the Buy America waiver process by requiring federal agencies to justify any proposed waiver of the Buy America requirements and ensuring that the American public has notice and an opportunity to comment on any proposed waiver prior to it taking effect,” Gibson noted.

Gibson said that with the real U.S. unemployment rate at 16 percent, outsourcing highvalue jobs for large-scale U.S. infrastructure projects defies common sense and hurts America’s economic recovery.

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“Congressman Rahall is to be commended for his leadership in introducing this important legislation,” he said.

“We look forward to working with the Ranking Member as this bill progresses and building bipartisan support for passage of these important reforms.”

Wire & Cable India 2012: Platform for decision makers

After its successful staging in 2010, Wire & Cable India, 4th International Exhibition & Conference for the Wire & Cable Industry, will return to the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Center in Mumbai from October 30 – November 1, 2012. The event will again be jointly organized by Messe Düsseldorf, its subsidiary Messe Düsseldorf India Pvt. and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). As the leading exhibition for this industry in India, Wire & Cable India 2012 will have the support of the International Wire and Cable Exhibitors’ Association (IWCEA), the International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA), the Italian Wire Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (ACIMAF) and the Wire and Cable Industry Suppliers’ Association (WCISA).

The exhibitors at Wire & Cable India 2012 will present the latest wire manufacturing and finishing machinery, process technology tools, auxiliary process technology materials and materials, special wires and cables as well as measuring and control technology.

The visitors will be top decision makers from the wire, cable, automotive, electrical, aerospace, telecommunication, electrical engineering, computer, chemical and construction industry.

The wire industry in India depends greatly on the construction and automotive sector. After the economic crisis, the building sector is expected to grow by an average of 10% per year with the government’s current five-year plan (2007-2012). Lately, this industry has recorded a 7% increase. Infrastructure and housing are the growth engines of the construction sector and the government places high priority on transportation networks and residential housing (urban areas alone are in need of millions of apartments). The Indian automotive industry has recovered and according to the Association of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, the sales of cars will double or even triple by 2015.

Wire & Cable India 2012 will be the ideal platform to benefit from these developments on the Indian market.

A total of 286 exhibitors from 24 countries showcased their latest products and technologies to 5,600 trade

Gibson issued the following statement regarding a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling to strike down the U.S. Commerce Department’s application of countervailing duties against subsidized products, including steel, from China: “AISI is gravely concerned with this erroneous court decision, which will cost valuable American jobs at a time when we need to be creating jobs, not eliminating them. It is well documented that the Chinese government is the world’s biggest subsidizer of favored manufacturing industries. This results in unfairly-traded exports undercutting U.S. manufacturers, and contributes greatly to our country’s trade deficit with China, which is expected to exceed $294 billion this year. According to one estimate, the U.S. trade deficit with China has cost Americans 2.8 million jobs over the past 10 years. With over 20 Chinese products currently subject to countervailing duties (CVD) AISI urges the Administration —duties that were imposed only after and Congress to act quickly a comprehensive investigation—this to overturn misguided court http://designm.ag/resources/adobe-illustrator-brushes/ ruling gives Chinese producers and exdecision allowing subsidized porters a license to unfairly attack the Chinese imports to harm U.S. U.S. market with the full resources of manufacturers American Iron and Steel Institute the Chinese government.

If left to stand, this ruling will deny (AISI) President and CEO Thomas J. visitors at the last staging of Wire & Cable India in 2010. The number of exhibitors grew by almost 30% compared to the 2008 event and gross exhibit space rose by 50%.

Three industry-related trade fairs will be held concurrently with Wire & Cable India 2012: Tube India International 2012, Metallurgy India 2012 and India Essen Welding& Cutting.

For further information on visiting or exhibiting at Wire & Cable India 2012, Tube India International 2012 or Metallurgy India 2012, contact Messe Düsseldorf North America, 150 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 2920, Chicago, IL 60601. Telephone: (312) 781-5180; Fax: (312) 781-5188; E-mail: info@ mdna.com; Visit our web site www. mdna.com; Subscribe to our blog at http://blog.mdna.com; Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/mdnachicago.

the U.S. government a critical WTOauthorized tool to address one of China’s leading trade-distorting practices.

AISI urges the Obama Administration and the Congress to begin work immediately to enact legislation clarifying that the CVD law continues to apply to non-market economies, like China, where the Department of Commerce determines that it can isolate and measure subsidies. Congress has never passed any legislation prohibiting the application of the CVD law to non-market economies, and the Court’s mistaken conclusion to the contrary must be corrected.”

AISI serves as the voice of the North American steel industry in the public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace as the preferred material of choice. AISI also plays a lead role in the development and application of new steels and steelmaking technology. AISI is comprised of 25 member companies, including integrated and electric furnace steelmakers, and 120 associate and affiliate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel industry. AISI’s member companies represent approximately 80 percent of both U.S. and continued on next page

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Finished steel import permit tons up 16 percent in 2011 vs.

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Import Market share at 22 percent Based on the Commerce Department’s most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that steel import permit applications for the month of December 2011 totaled 2,208,000 net tons (NT). This was a 9% increase from the 2,027,000 permit tons recorded in November 2011 and a 5% increase from the November preliminary imports total of 2,107,000 NT. Import permit tonnage for finished steel in December was 1,618,000 NT, down 2% from the preliminary imports total of 1,646,000 NT in November. Full-year 2011 total and finished steel import permit tons were 28,646,000 NT and 21,871,000 NT, up 20% and 16%, respectively, vs. the 23,929,000 NT and 18,857,000 NT imported in 2010. The estimated finished steel import market share in 2011 was

22%, and was 19% in December.

In December, the largest finished steel import permit applications for offshore countries were for Korea (222,000 NT, up 15% from November), Japan (130,000 NT, up 13%), Turkey (100,000 NT, up 319%), China (100,000 NT, up 21%) and Germany (76,000 NT, up 19%). For full-year 2011, the largest offshore suppliers were South Korea (2, 856,000 NT, up 40%), Japan (1, 479,000 NT, up 12%), China (1,244,000 NT, up 45%), Germany (943,000 NT, up 7%) and Turkey (750,000 NT, up 29%).

Finished steel import permits for products that registered large increases in December vs. the November preliminary include reinforcing bar (up 101%), sheet and strip all other metallic coated (up 45%), wire rods (up 38%) and mechanical tubing (up 16%). For full-year 2011, products that saw significant increases vs. 2010 include cut length plate (up 55%), mechanical tubing (up 44%), plates in coils (up 34%), line pipe (up 33%), sheet and strip, all other metallic coated (up 32%), reinforcing bar (up 27%), hot rolled bars (up 26%) and oil country goods (up 23%).

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steel import tons were the lowest since February of that year – 2011 can best be characterized as a year of slow and fragile recovery,” Thomas J. Gibson, AISI president and CEO said, in commenting on the December and full-year 2011 SIMA data. “Domestic capacity utilization averaged only around 75% in 2011, while finished steel import market share rose to 22%, and finished steel import tonnage increased by more than 3 million tons, or roughly 16%, vs. the prior year. Year-over-year import increases of 30-50 percent in plate and certain other products, combined with continued increases in imports from China and other Asian countries, remain a cause of concern. Looking ahead to 2012, continued improvements in domestic steel market conditions will again depend on ensuring that U.S. producers are not further injured by surges of dumped and subsidized imports.”

AISI urges Administration to focus on steps to create jobs by boosting manufacturing, as President prepares to deliver his state of the union address

As President Obama prepares to deliver his fourth State of the Union ad-

dress, American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) President and CEO Thomas J. Gibson outlined three key issues requiring action to boost the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing, thereby stimulating the economy and creating high-value jobs. Gibson said that must entail a tough stance on trade law enforcement, authorizing a robust, longterm transportation bill, and developing and expanding access to America’s domestic oil and natural gas resources.

“I’d like to hear the President articulate a strong message on trade enforcement,” Gibson said. “Strong and strictly enforced laws against unfair trade must be the cornerstone of any pro-manufacturing agenda. Rising import penetration, for example, which we have seen in recent years, can steal market share from domestic manufacturers, thus limiting output and hiring,” he said. “We need to be vigilant against unfairly-traded imports curbing U.S. manufacturing’s momentum.

In the trade arena, we’d also like to see the President take action to address foreign currency manipulation, since the Chinese government continues to maintain a 25 to 30% advantage over U.S. manufacturers by undervaluing its currency.”

“A globally competitive economy depends on an effective and efficient transportation infrastructure as it directly impacts the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector and creates significant demand for steel fabricated products,” Gibson said. “To get a multiyear transportation reauthorization passed, we urge the President to provide strong leadership on the tough issues, such as a realistic approach to funding and a compromise plan that both House and Senate can embrace, so that a bill can move forward funded at levels high enough to help restore our infrastructure system, put Americans back to work and stimulate the economy. This is a bi-partisan issue that can directly impact the nation’s unemployment, considering that every $1 billion federally invested in highway capital supports 35,000 American jobs. Plus, the American Society of Engineers tells us that $203 billion is needed each year just to meet our nation’s infrastructure needs.”

Gibson said he’d also like to hear the President say he’ll take action on energy policy recommendations that were just recently released in a report by his own Council on Jobs and Competiveness. The Council noted that the

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To do that, the Council recommends “allowing more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands, and that federal, state and local authorities should encourage safe and responsible extraction of natural gas where sources have been uncovered.”

“We urge the President to take action on these recommendations, which will generate jobs while also securing our nation’s future energy supply,” Gibson said. Studies show the Marcellus Shale development could create 76,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, 20,000 jobs in New York and 17,000 jobs in West Virginia by 2015. Development of Ohio’s Utica Shale could support more than 204,000 jobs in just four years.

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Transportation Reauthorization: Create good jobs while investing in America’s crumbling infrastructure.

The U.S. Congress needs to authorize a multi-year surface transportation bill in 2012. Reauthorization is also needed for vital improvements to the nation’s water infrastructure system.

Energy: Develop and expand access to America’s domestic oil and natural gas sources. Congress needs to pass legislation to expand access and production of America’s oil and natural gas sources in the Outer Continental Shelf, while using the anticipated revenue to rebuild America’s transportation infrastructure.

“It is critical not only to the steel industry,” Gibson said, “but to all our manufacturing sector that the Obama Administration’s number one priority will be to enact policies that keeps America competitive, restore confidence in our nation’s struggling economy and spur job growth. This three-pronged pro-manufacturing strategy is a clear path to achieving this unifying course.”

Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick learns about the wire rope industry

Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick toured the Chant Engineering Co. headquarters to see first-hand an American business success story. With five straight years of record growth, Chant continues to expand and hire new employees. Congressman Fitzpatrick wanted to see first-hand and meet the key personnel driving this growth in today’s challenging economic environment.

“Meetings with small-business job creators right here in Bucks County are essential to my understanding of the problems facing our economy,” said Fitzpatrick. “American entrepreneurs are working to succeed in a difficult business environment thanks to oner-

ous and ineffective regulations, exploding debt, and the threat of higher taxes.”

During the tour, Congressman Fitzpatrick performed a break test on a sling using a Chant 600,000 lb. capacity wire rope testing machine. “This was really interesting,” commented Fitzpatrick while examining the broken end of the sling. “I wasn’t aware this industry even existed.”

Chant Engineering Co. is a global diversified engineering company that designs, manufactures, services and calibrates testing machines, systems and related accessories for worldwide industrial and military customers. The company with 40+ employees resides in a new 38,000 sq. ft. “green design” energy efficient manufacturing facility. For more information on Chant Engineering, visit www.chantengineering.com.

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Columbus McKinnon restores former plant into training center

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Chant Engineering partners with Talurit AB, in North America

Two great names have partnered together to provide products and service to the Rigging Industry. Chant Engineering Co. Inc. has partnered with Talurit AB of Sweden. In addition to its well known wire rope testing machines, Chant is now the authorized Distributor for Talurit Swaging Presses, Dies and Wire Rope Cutting Machines, throughout North America. Chant will stock equipment, spare parts and provide service for all Talurit equipment from their New Britain, PA facility.

Phil Chant, Vice President of Chant Engineering, said “This is an exciting business venture that we have been working on for many years. The potential is tremendous. We now are able to offer our customers not only our products and services but package deals on swagers, cutting machines and test beds. This partnership will allow us to increase the size of our manufacturing facility and create quality American jobs.”

Thommy Andersson, Managing Director of Talurit AB, said “This cooperation will allow us to provide not only our products and spare parts from stock at Chant, but also competent technical service and training. TALURIT continues to be a pioneering force in the industry developing effective methods and equipment for mechanical splicing of wire ropes, with high quality control and total customer satisfaction.

Together with Chant we will create a new TALURIT Service Centre in North America. We are looking forward to this venture.”

Chant Engineering Co. is a global diversified engineering company that designs, manufactures, services and calibrates testing machines, systems and related accessories for worldwide industrial and military customers. The company with 40+ employees resides in a new 38,000 sq. ft. “green design” energy efficient manufacturing facility. For more information on Chant Engineering, visit www.chantengineering.com.

Talurit AB was established in 1948 and continues to be the pioneering company in the field of mechanical splicing of wire ropes. The parent company is home-based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

There are also subsidiaries in Southern Germany and in United Kingdom.

TALURIT develops, manufactures, markets and maintains equipment and systems for mechanical splicing systems for wire and wire rope fabricators worldwide. Through high standards of efficiency, safety, quality and reliability TALURIT products create added value for all customers and end users.

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NCCCO Articulating Crane Operator and Rigger Level II certifications earn ANSI accreditation

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) announced today that it has been awarded accreditation by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for 50

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two of its newest certification programs.

The CCO Rigger Level II and Articulating Crane Operator certifications are now accredited by ANSI to the ISO/IEC 17024 International Standard for organizations that certify personnel.

NCCCO also announced that it had been granted continued accreditation

by ANSI for its previously accredited programs: Mobile Crane Operator, Tower Crane Operator, Overhead Crane Operator, Rigger Level I, and Signalperson.

The decision of ANSI’s Personnel Certification Accreditation Committee (PCAC) to expand the scope of NCCCO’s accreditation came after rigorous audits of its management systems and psychometric procedures, as well as detailed scrutiny of its written and practical test development and administrative processes.

“ANSI represents the highest standard of accreditation available,” said NCCCO Commission Chairman, Kerry Hulse. “Candidates and employers alike can now be assured that, with ANSI’s independent verification of NCCCO’s programs, CCO Articulating Crane Operator and Rigger Level II certifications meet the highest professional standards of examination development and administration.”

“As with NCCCO’s other ANSI-accredited certification programs, these two additional certifications help to ‘close the loop’ regarding crane safety on the jobsite,” Hulse added.

“Achieving ANSI accreditation is a major undertaking,” said ANSI Senior Director, Personnel Credentialing Programs, Roy A. Swift, PhD, “and NCCCO can be very proud of this accomplishment. No other accreditation process demands the degree of psychometric or management disclosure that ANSI requires for accreditation under ISO 17024.”

“OSHA’s new rules for Cranes and Derricks in Construction—29 CFR 1926, Subpart CC—require operators of articulating cranes used in construction to be certified as of November 10, 2014. Riggers, on the other hand, must now be ‘qualified,’ and certification under NCCCO’s Rigger Level II program is an excellent way to show that riggers are qualified to rig non-routine jobs that require independent thinking without supervision,” noted NCCCO Executive Director Graham Brent. “Both of these newly accredited certification programs provide an excellent way to show that personnel meet OSHA requirements,” continued Brent.

Accreditation of certifying bodies is a requirement of OSHA’s new rule published last year and is increasingly being required by state regulators in their attempts to ensure quality of the certifications issued, Brent noted. Fully three-fourths of the states that have requirements for crane operators and related trades now require or recognize NCCCO certification.

“A central part of NCCCO’s goal since its inception 15 years ago has been to establish national testing programs that are fair to all candidates while at the same time are both valid and reliable assessments of essential knowledge and skills,” Brent said. “ANSI’s accreditation of these two new certification programs is clear testimony that that goal has been achieved.”

For more information about CCO certification programs—including candidate handbooks and applications—visit the NCCCO website at www.nccco.org.

Tube Russia returns in May 2012

From May 28 - 31, 2012 the trade fair trio Metallurgy-Litmash (International Trade Fair for Metallurgy, Machinery, Plant Technology and Products), Tube Russia (The International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair in Russia) and Aluminium/Non-Ferrous (International Trade Fair for Aluminum and Non-Ferrous Metals, Materials, Technologies and Products) will return to the ZAO Expocentr in Moscow.

The trade fairs will be jointly organized by Messe Düsseldorf together with its subsidiary Messe Düsseldorf Moscow and its Russian partner MetalExpo. Supporting association include the International Tube Association (ITA), the European Committee of Industrial Furnace and Heating Equipment Associations (CECOF), the European Foundry Equipment Suppliers Association (CEMAFON) as well as the European Metallurgical Equipment Association (EUnited Metallurgy) and the German Engineering Federation (VDMA).

The three trade fairs will present the latest innovations for the metal pipe and metalworking industries: Metallurgy-Litmash 2012 will include metallurgical plants and rolling mills, thermo process technology and foundry machinery as well as sheet metals, welding, cutting and joining technology and information processing equipment.

Tube Russia 2012 will feature tube manufacturing machinery, raw materials, tubes and accessories, used ma-

chinery and process technology tools as well as measuring and control technology. Aluminium/Non-Ferrous 2012 will present plants, machinery and technology for aluminum and non-ferrous extraction and processing, raw materials and primary metal products as well as semi-finished and finished products.

According to the Russian Federation Ministry of Industry and Trade, the 2011 production volume of iron and steel will increase by 4% – 6%. In addition to modernization needs after the recession, the main projects driving the demand for iron and steel in the country are the APEC Vladivostok Summit in 2012, the Student Games in Kazan in 2013 and the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014. In addition, preparations for the World Soccer Champion-

ship in 2018 are already underway.

Metallurgy-Litmash, Tube Russia and Aluminium/Non-Ferrous 2012 will be instrumental in successfully meeting the needs of the Russian market.

When the trade fair trio was last held in 2011, a total of 265 exhibitors from 24 countries showcased their products to 10,500 visitors (includes attendees at the concurrently held wire Russia trade fair).

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Orlando 2 – 6respondents be• 21.1% of Oct. survey LongU.S. Beach Oct. 16conditions – 20 lieve that economic will Chicago Nov.the 28 next – Dec.six 1 months, get “better” over For more info please contact Jason up from 19.4% in December. 78.9% of with NACB at 1-800-654-5640, or email survey respondents indicate they bejrcrispell@cranesafe.com. lieve the U.S. economy will “stay the same” over the next six months, up NEMA offers slightly from 77.8% Water in December. No Damaged one responded Electrical that they believe economic conditions in the U.S. willto worsEquipment Brochure en over the next six months, a decrease flood damaged areas from who believed so last hazards month.

In 2.8% response to electrical • In in January, 34.2% of offlash respondents posed the aftermath flooding indicate they believe and theirNortheast company in the Mid-Atlantic will increase spendingElectrical on business destates, the National Manuvelopment activities during the next facturers Association (NEMA) assixa months, up fromoffers 22.2%complimentary in December. public service 65.8% there will be “no change” copies believe of its brochure, Guidelines for in business development Handling Water Damaged spending, Electrical down from 77.8% last month, and no Equipment, to electrical distributors, one believes there will be a decrease in contractors, and inspectors in the flood spending, unchanged from last month. damaged regions.

January 2012 for MCI Survey Water ComGuidelines Handling ments from Industry Executive Damaged Electrical Equipment is Leadership: designed for use by suppliers, installDepending on and the users market segment ers, inspectors, of electrical they represent, executives have differproducts. The document provides ing points of view on the current and advice on the safe handling of electrical future outlook forhas the industry. equipment that been exposed to Bank, It Middle Ticket water. outlines which items will “Business continues to improve require complete replacement or canbut be not in a robust manner.

Replacement reconditioned by a trained profesequipment along with some strategic sional. Equipment covered includes capital investments are equipment, driving the electrical distribution improvements.

Several acmotor circuits, powerhistorically equipment, tive equipment segments remain flat.” transformers, wire, cable and flexible Harry President, Frost cords, Kaplun, wiring devices, GFCIs andEquipsurge ment Leasing lighting and Finance protectors, fixtures and Independent, Small Ticket products ballasts, motors, electronic “The industry has i n c l u d i n g s i g n a l i n glent , p r effectively otection, through the recession and recovery and communication systems, and induscontinues to play strong role as busitrial controls, andacable trays. nesses T h e start e n t ito r ereplace b r o c houtdated u r e h a s equipbeen ment and undertake expansion plans. incorporated into the Federal EmerIn the small ticket segment, wemanual, see opgency Management Agency’s portunities thatPractices had not for been Principles and thepresent Design over past few years.

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www.strider-resource.com 6. U.S. economic conditions over the invest at prevailing prices. When conWire Rope News & Sling Technology August 2006 fidence decreases, spending and risk- next six months 7. Business development spending taking tend to fall. Investors are said to be confident when the news about expectations 8. Open-ended question for comment the future is good and stock prices are How may I access the MCI-EFI? rising.

Survey results are posted on the Who participates in the MCI-EFI? The respondents are comprised of a Foundation website, www.leasefounwide cross section of industry execu- dation.org/IndRsrcs/MCI/, included in tives, including large-ticket, middle- the Foundation Forecast newsletter market and small-ticket banks, in- and included in press releases. Survey dependents and captive equipment respondent demographics and addifinance companies. The MCI-EFI uses tional information about the MCI are the same pool of 50 organization lead- also available at the link above. ers to respond monthly to ensure the survey’s integrity. Since the same Corrections to the organizations provide the data from December 2011 issue month to month, the results constitute From Mike Gelskey, Sr. a consistent barometer of the indus- CEO, Lift-It Manufacturing Co. try’s confidence.

While we appreciate the excellent How is the MCI-EFI designed? article, Association Roundup, feaThe survey consists of seven ques- tured in the December 2011 edition of tions and an area for comments, ask- Wire Rope News and Sling Technoling the respondents’ opinions about the ogy, there are several errors that must following: be corrected to set the record straight: 1. Current business conditions 1) I am not the Executive Director for 2. Expected product demand over the WSTDA, I serve as the President of the next four months Association.

3. Access to capital over the next four 2) The WSTDA is not and has never months been the driving force for ASME adopt4. Future employment conditions ing its B30.9 standards. The B30.9 5. Evaluation of the current U.S. document references many of the staneconomy

dards promulgated by the WSTDA in chapters 5 and 6.

3) The correct abbreviation for Web Sling and Tiedown Association is WSTDA not WS&TD 4) The WSTDA has the following technical committees: Web Sling, Roundsling, Load Securment, Testing and Legal Resource Committee.

5) Currently WSTDA has 114 members. The total, estimated population of companies in North America that could conceivably be involved would be 500.

6) While the relationship between AWRF and WSTDA has never been at a better state, largely through the efforts of Jeff Gilbert, Don Pellow and Bob Jasany, we have not collaborated on joint programs, such as testing. AWRF and WSTDA share information relative to specific test programs sponsored by each respective organization to avoid duplicity and redundancy.

From the Chilean Mine Rescue article The author inadvertently omitted an acknowledgement for information obtained for the above article from a Power Point presentation given at the 2011 OIPEEC Conference, College Station, Texas, by Dr. Roland Konrad and R. Traxl.

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Inventor’s Corner

By William Fischer

Wire dispensing device Pat. 8,052,078 U.S. class 242/170 Int. class B65H 55/00Â Inventor: Edward F. DeLuca, Pittsburgh, PA., Gregory J. Buczkowski, Glenshaw, PA. Assignee: Field Pro, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA. This patent presents a wire dispensing device for containing a roll of wire having a free end. The device includes a plurality of enclosure walls connected to each other and forming an enclosure, where at least one of the walls is operable between an open position, thereby providing access to an internal area of the enclosure, and a closed position, thereby substantially enclosing the roll of wire positioned therein. At least one dispensing orifice extends through at least one surface of the enclosure and permits passage of the free end of the wire for use in dispensing the wire from the device. A method of dispensing wire from a roll of wire, and a method of manufacturing a dispensing device are also provided.

As seen in figure 1 and 2, the wire dispensing device 10 includes multiple enclosure walls 12, and these walls 12 together form an enclosure 14. As seen in figure 1, the roll A of wire B is positioned within an internal area 16 of the enclosure 14. In one preferred and non-limiting embodiment, the walls 12 are in the form of a first half portion 18 and a second half portion 20. The first half portion 18 and the second half portion 20 are connected together and movable with respect to each other, such as through a hinge arrangement 22. In particular, the hinge arrangement 22 is attached to a portion of each of the first half portion 18 and the second half portion 20, such that the enclosure 14 can be opened and closed. In this manner, the walls 12 are operable

Figure 1: Perspective view of a wire dispensing device in an open position.

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between an open position, thereby providing access to the internal area 16 of the enclosure 14, and a closed position, thereby substantially enclosing the roll A of wire B, which is positioned in the internal area 16, as seen in figure 2. Of course, it is envisioned that access to the internal area 16 may be via a door or other cover member (not shown) formed on or operatively engaged with the enclosure 14.

In order to remove the wire B from the enclosure 14, a dispensing orifice 24 is provided. In particular, the dispensing orifice 24 extends through and is positioned on the en-

Figure 2: Wire dispensing device in a closed position.

closure 14 to thereby allow passage of the free end C of the wire B through it. As best seen in figure 2, the free end C of the wire B extends through the dispensing orifice 24, and thereby allows a user to grasp the free end C and pull the wire B through the dispensing orifice 24 and out of the enclosure 14.

In another embodiment, and in order to allow the user to manipulate the enclosure 14, a handle 26 may be provided.

As seen in figures 1 and 2, the handle 26 may be a hinged handle attached to an outer surface 28 of the enclosure 14.

However, as discussed hereinafter, this handle 26 may take many forms and be used for a variety of purposes. For example, in one embodiment, the handle 26 may be used to secure the enclosure 14 to a particular point, such that the enclosure 14 does not move while the wire B is being dispensed from the device 10. In addition, the handle 26 may be used to secure the enclosure 14 to a position above the ground surface, thereby providing additional protection from the environmental and physical conditions that may impact it, as well as facilitating a more efficient dispensing process.

Still further, the handle 26 may be integrally formed with

Figure 3: Exploded, side view of a further embodiment of a wire dispensing device.

or on the enclosure 14.

A further embodiment of the device 10 is illustrated in figure 3. In this embodiment, a first hub 30 and a second hub 32 are provided. In particular, the first hub 30 extends or projects from the first half portion 18 and within the internal area 16 of the enclosure 14, while the second hub 32 extends or projects from the second half portion 20 and into the internal area 16 of the enclosure 14. Further, the first hub 30 and the second hub 32 provide an arrangement that allows the roll A of wire B to be directly or indirectly positioned over and around the hubs 30, 32. In operation, when the wire B is removed from the enclosure 14, the roll A spins and moves around the hubs 30, 32 and out of the dispensing orifice 24, which maintains the integrity of the roll A and prevents the wire from becoming tangled within the enclosure 14.

In order to facilitate the spinning movement of the roll A of wire B in the internal area 16 of the enclosure 14, one or more discs 34 may be provided. The roll A of wire B will be positioned between these discs 34, and facilitate more effective and low-friction spinning of the roll A. In addition, in the instances where the roll A of wire B does not include a spool D, such a spool 36 may be provided. Accordingly, one disc 34 is placed in the second half portion 20 over the second hub 32, and next, the spool 36 is positioned over the second hub 32. The roll A of wire B is then placed over the spool 36, and the other disc 34 is placed on top of the roll A of wire B. In this manner, when the first half portion 18 and second half portion 20 are closed against each other in an abutting relationship (thereby forming the enclosure 14), all of the discs 34, the spool 36 and the roll A of wire B are captured within the enclosure 14, but allowed to spin and dispense the wire B. In the embodiment of figure 3, the dispensing orifice 24 is provided in two parts or halves, each on an edge portion of the half portions 18, 20. Therefore, and unlike the contiguous dispensing orifice 24 extending through a single wall 12 of the enclosure 14 (as illustrated in figures 1 and 2), in the embodiment of figure 3, the dispensing orifice 24 is provided continued on next page Wire Rope News & Sling Technology February 2012

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continued from previous page when the first half portion 18 and second half portion 20 are closed. One benefit of this is that the wire B is much more easily captured within the dispensing orifice 24, as well as removable from the enclosure 14. For example, even if the wire B is considerably dispensed from the device 10, the device 10 may be opened and the roll A of wire B easily removed without the requirement of rewinding the wire B. Remaining with the embodiment of figure 3, and in order to better secure the first half portion 18 and second half portion 20 together, one or more attachment arrangements 38 may be provided. Various such attachment arrangements 38 are envisioned within the scope and context of the present invention. One arrangement 38 includes a bolt 40 extending from the second hub 32 in the second half portion 20 of the enclosure 14. The first hub 30 in the first half portion 18 includes a bolt orifice 42, through which the bolt 40 may extend. Specifically, a threaded portion of the bolt 40 extends through this bolt orifice 42. Next, a nut 44 is threaded onto and secured to the bolt 40, thereby removably attaching the first half portion 18 and second half portion 20 via their respective hubs 30, 32. For example, the nut 44 may be a wing nut or other easily manipulatable component. Of course, any removable attachment arrangement 38 is envisioned.

Cordless hoist Pat. 8,056,884 U.S. class 254/376 Int. class B66D 5/32 Inventor: Randy A. LaFreniere, Panora, IA. Assignee: Randy A. LaFreniere, Panora, IA. This patent presents a portable hoist assembly having a housing. The housing has a recoil spring secured thereto wherein the recoil spring is secured to a cable spool such that constant tension is provided on the cable spool. The cable spool contains a cable that is secured to it, and has a hook member secured at a first end. An actuating member having a self contained power source and connected to the cable is thus operable to feed and retract the cable.

The figures 4 and 5 show a portable hoist assembly 10.

The portable hoist assembly 10 has a housing 12 that is comprised of an outer cover 14 and a frame 16 that enclose the components of the hoist assembly 10. A hinge connects the outer cover 14 and frame 16 together such that the cover 14 is able to retract away from the frame 16 to allow access

Figure 4: Exploded perspective view of a portable hoist assembly.

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Figure 5: Side sectional view of a portable hoist assembly.

to an interior of the housing 12.

Mounted within the frame 16 is a recoil spring 20 and recoil spring housing 22 that are secured to the frame 16. In a preferred embodiment the recoil spring 20 and housing 22 are bolted to the frame 16. A cable spool 24 is rotatably connected to the recoil spring 20 via a hub 26 that ties the spring 20 and cable spool 24 together. Thus, because the recoil spring 20 is secured to the frame 16 a constant tension is provided on the cable spool 24. Cable spool 24 has a cable 28 disposed about and wrapped around the cable spool 24 in order to store the cable 28. A cable bracket 30 attaches the cable 28 to a first hook member 32. At the other end of the cable 28 the cable 28 has a second hook member 33 affixed thereto that is disposed out the bottom of the housing 12.

The hook first member 32 in one embodiment is considered a limb hook. Specifically, the hook member 32 can be positioned over a limb to a structure or to a load depending on the application. Specifically, the portable hoist assembly may be used 180 degrees or flipped to retract the cable 28 or the hook member 32. The second hook member 33 in one embodiment is considered a stationary hook. The second hook member 33 is attached to a winch 34 which in one embodiment may be attached to a structure or the load being lifted or pulled depending on the application. The second hook member 33 may also be used at 180 degrees or flipped to retract the cable 28 or the first hook member 32. The winch 34 is mounted onto a winch mount 36 that is mounted to the housing 12. Further, the winch 34 or gear box is connected to the cable 28 to feed or retract the cable 28.

An actuating member 38 is disposed within the housing and is attached to the winch 34 to drive the winch in either

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direction. In a preferred embodiment the actuating member 38 is a cordless drill or motor that is rotatably connected to the winch 34 or gear box and drives the winch 34 in either direction. A control tether 40 is electrically connected to a control switch 42 of the actuating member 38 at a first end and to a two position control switch 44 at a second end.

In a preferred embodiment the tether 40 is a power cable.

The two position control switch 44 or pendant hand control opens a circuit supplying power to the actuating member 38.

In a preferred embodiment the two position control switch 44 opens a circuit supplying power from a battery 46 of the actuating member 38.

A split cable bushing 48 is additionally provided and attached to the outer cover 14 of the housing 12 to allow a smooth friction resistant guide for the cable 28. Additionally attached to the cover 14 of housing 12 is an upper limit switch 50 that is electrically connected to the actuating member 38 deactivates power to the actuating member 38 when tripped by limit trip 52 that is affixed to the first end of the cable 28. Similarly, a lower limit switch 54 is affixed to the second end of the cable 28 and electrically connected to the actuating member 38 such that when tripped by the limit trip 52, again power to the actuating member 38, is deactivated.

In operation the following components are assembled into the enclosure or housing 12 in a manner that requires a compact, lightweight, functional tool. Like other cordless tools, a rechargeable battery 46 supplies DC power to either a drill, motor or other actuating member 38 that drives a gear reducer or winch 34 in either direction via a hand held pendant controller 44. When power is applied to the drill, motor or actuating member 38 via the pendant

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controller 44, the actuating member 38 then drives the gear reducer/hoist 34. This hoist 34 then feeds or retracts an onboard cable 28 that is stored or spooled on a constant tension reel, paying out or retracting the cable 28. Both the gearbox 34 and actuating member 38 are equipped with power down braking.

One end of this apparatus is connected to any object strong enough to support the weight of that desired to hoist or pull. The other end is tied to the matter to be hoisted or pulled. When the power is applied by activating the hand held pendant 44 the item is then raised, lowered, or pulled.

Limit switches 50 and 54 are also used to cut power to the actuating member 38 in the full up/down position to eliminate damage to the assembly 10. Additionally, this hoist assembly 10 is operated and functions similar to other hoists/ winches. However, it utilizes a portable re-chargeable battery 46 as a source of power, unlike its counterparts, which are powered by a fixed power source, limiting their portability as well as versatility.

Elevator and traction sheave of an elevator Pat. 8,069,955 U.S. class 187/254 Int. class B66B 11/08 Inventor: Esko Aulanko, Kerava, FI., Jorma Mustalahti, Hyvinkaa, FI., Pekka Rantanen, Hyvinkaa, FI., Simo Makimattila, Espoo, FI. Assignee: Kone Corporation, Helsinki, FI. An elevator may include an elevator car, a counterweight, a set of hoisting ropes, and one or more rope pulleys. The car and counterweight may be suspended on the hoisting ropes.

At least one rope pulley may include a solid surface including a plurality of rope grooves configured to receive at least continued on next page Wire Rope News & Sling Technology February 2012

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continued from previous page one hoisting rope. Each rope groove may generally conform to a semi-circular shape and may include a groove bottom and sides. At least one rope pulley may include a coating adhesively bonded to it. The coating may directly contact at least one hoisting rope. A coating thickness may be less than or equal to about 3 mm. At the groove bottom of each rope groove, the coating thickness may be substantially less than half a thickness of at least one hoisting rope. The coating may cover the groove bottom and sides of each rope groove.

Figure 6 is a diagrammatic representation of the structure of an elevator. The elevator is preferably an elevator without machine room, in which the drive machine 6 is placed in the elevator shaft, although the invention is also applicable for use in elevators with machine room. The passage of the hoisting ropes 3 of the elevator is as follows: One end of the ropes is immovably fixed to an anchorage 13 located in the upper part of the shaft above the path of a counterweight 2 moving along counterweight guide rails 11. From the anchorage, the ropes run downward and are passed around diverting pulleys 9 suspending the counterweight, which diverting pulleys 9 are rotatably mounted on the counterweight 2 and from which the ropes 3 run further upward to the traction sheave 7 of the drive machine 6, passing around the traction sheave along rope grooves on the sheave. From the traction sheave 7, the ropes 3 run further downward to the elevator car 1 moving along car guide rails 10, passing under the car via diverting pulleys 4 used to suspend the elevator car on the ropes, and going then upward again from the elevator car to an anchorage 14 in the upper part of the elevator shaft, to which anchorage the second end of the

Figure 7: Rope pulley applying the elevator and traction sheave.

Figure 6: Diagram representing an elevator.

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ropes 3 is fixed.

Anchorage 13 in the upper part of the shaft, the traction sheave 7 and the diverting pulley 9 suspending the counterweight on the ropes are preferably so disposed in relation to each other that both the rope portion going from the anchorage 13 to the counterweight 2 and the rope portion going from the counterweight 2 to the traction sheave 7 are substantially parallel to the path of the counterweight 2.

Similarly, a solution is preferred in which anchorage 14 in the upper part of the shaft, the traction sheave 7 and the diverting pulleys 4 suspending the elevator car on the ropes are so disposed in relation to each other that the rope portion going from the anchorage 14 to the elevator car 1 and the rope portion going from the elevator car 1 to the traction sheave 7 are substantially parallel to the path of the elevator car 1. With this arrangement, no additional diverting pulleys are needed to define the passage of the ropes in the shaft. The rope suspension acts in a substantially centric manner on the elevator car 1, provided that the rope pulleys 4 supporting the elevator car are mounted substantially symmetrically relative to the vertical center line passing via the center of gravity of the elevator car 1.

The drive machine 6 placed in the elevator shaft is preferably of a flat construction, in other words, the machine has a small depth as compared with its width and/or height, or at least the machine is slim enough to be accommodated between the elevator car and a wall of the elevator shaft.

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Under $150,000: PSC Crane and machine on the bottomjacking of the elevator Figure 6 illusduringcan its construction, when Rigging’s Move and Installation of Barnhart used Modular Lift Towersbut building trates the economical 2:1 suspension, the invention roofsuspension was off; however, for several a Diesel Generator Package and be hydraulic jacks to and secure also implemented in lift an elevator usingthe a 1:1 reasons, roof could not be opened up the structure innovatively takingin which Last winter, PSC Crane & Rigging ratio, in otherwhile words, in an elevator thethe hoisting for the replacement. advantage of the launch successfully completed a very complex ropes are connected directlypad’s to therotacounterweight and elevah e c u simplet o m e r ’ s o r i g i n a l p l a n rigging job that began with off-loading tional for diverting positioningpulleys, purposes. tor carability without or in an Televator Figure 9: Second alternative structure of the coating of a rope pulley.

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Ohio.a traction sheave 7, in ones required movement a Rensselaer, wanted to take chances with such an new 6, e.g. to aalong rotating flange, to form The existing in themachine buildthe building to expensive, highly technical apparatus. circuitous path through which case no bearing separate fromopening the hoisting For more Associated Rope Inc. Waterman Supply Co., measured Inc. façade, which a from&a Rigging, hole in is anneeded. exterior wall ing’s brick After successfully completing Wire the and information, Saran Drive, Playa Del Rey,100 CA 90293 910 Mahar Ave.,than Wilmington, CA 90748 little alternative more 10 feetofwide, had torope be more than feet Figures above 8-11 grade. project, Barnhart 8125 and NASA concluded illustrate ways coating a contact: enlarged the 310-522-1043 generator could Clearances were as tight as 2 An inches. the launch structure about 5 Fax: Ph: weighed 1-800-901-1135 310-448-5446 Ph:way 1-800-322-3131 Fax: pulley. easy in respectbefore of manufacturing technique pass through.

PSC used a 500 ton J&R To adjust to inconsistencies in million pounds, Email: of which Barnhart awrrinc@earthlink.net Email: waterman@bigplanet.com is to provide the smooth cylindrical outer surface of a pulley Lift-NLock gantry system equipped flooring throughout the building, lifted about 2.5 million pounds. as shown in figure 11 with a coating 102 in which the rope Poweron Rotator to $150,000-$750,000: Barnhart Ba rn h a r t e n gi n e e r s d ev e l o pe d a with a 400 ton J&R continued next page Figure 8: First alternative structure of the coating of a rope pulley.

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Figure 10: Third alternative structure of the coating of a rope pulley.

grooves 101 are formed. However, such a grooved coating made on a smooth surface can not withstand a very great compression produced by the ropes as they are pressed into the rope grooves, because the pressure can evolve laterally.

In the solutions presented in figures 8-10, the shape of the rim is better adapted to the shape of the rope grooves in the coating, so the shape of the rope grooves is better supported and the load-bearing surface layer of even or nearly even thickness under the rope provides a better resistance against lateral propagation of the compression stress produced by the ropes.

The lateral spreading of the coating caused by the pressure is promoted by thickness and elasticity of the coating and reduced by hardness and eventual reinforcements of the coating. Especially in the solution presented in figure 10, in which the coating has a thickness corresponding to nearly half the rope thickness, a hard and inelastic coating is

which have a thickness of 8-10 mm, this thickness definition leads to a coating at least about 1 mm thick. Since a coating on the traction sheave, which causes more rope wear than the other rope pulleys of the elevator, will reduce rope wear and, therefore, also the need to provide the rope with thick surface wires, the rope can be made smoother. The use of thin wires allows the rope itself to be made thinner, because thin steel wires can be manufactured from a stronger material than thicker wires. For instance, using 0.2 mm wires, a 4 mm thick elevator hoisting rope of a fairly good construction can be produced. However, the coating should be thick enough to ensure that it will not be very easily scratched away or pierced e.g. by an occasional sand grain or similar particle having got between the rope groove and the hoisting rope. Thus, a desirable minimum coating thickness, even when thin-wire hoisting ropes are used, would be about 0.5 . . . 1 mm.

Winding, securing and positioning mechanism for a come-along Pat. 8,079,570 U.S. class 254/371 Int. class B66D 1/30Â Inventor: Bu Qin Ruan, Zhejiang, CN. Assignee: Zhejiang Topsun Logistic Control Co., Ltd., Yuhuan District Tai Zhou, CN. A come-along for pulling loads includes a rope winding mechanism that enables the rope to be wound and fed out smoothly. The rope winding mechanism includes a positioning hole that reduces the angle between the secured end of the rope and an axial tube about which the rope is wound. The come-along also includes a rope securing mechanism. The secured end of the rope has a seal head that fits through an installation hole and rests against the positioning hole. A helical slot around the axial tube enables the rope to wind evenly.

Figure 11: Fourth alternative structure of the coating of a rope pulley.

needed, whereas the coating in figure 8, which has a thickness equal to about one tenth of the rope thickness, may be clearly softer. The thickness of the coating in figure 9 at the bottom of the groove equals about one fifth of the rope thickness. The coating thickness should equal at least 2-3 times the depth of the rope surface texture formed by the surface wires of the rope. Such a very thin coating, having a thickness even less than the thickness of the surface wire of the rope, will not necessarily endure the strain imposed on it.

In practice, the coating must have a thickness larger than this minimum thickness because the coating will also have to receive rope surface variations rougher than the surface texture. Such a rougher area is formed e.g. where the level differences between rope strands are larger than those between wires. In practice, a suitable minimum coating thickness is about 1-3 times the surface wire thickness. In the case of the ropes normally used in elevators, which have been designed for a contact with a metallic rope groove and 60

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Figure 12: Side partial cut-away view of a come-along.

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Figure 12 is a side partial cut-away view of a come-along according to principles of the invention. Figure 13 is a front view of the come-along according to principles of the invention. The come-along 90 includes a main body 105, a handle

Figure 14: Cross-section view of windings of rope on the axial tube.

Figure 13: Front view of the come-along.

106, a rope 103, a first hook 107 and a second hook 152. The axial tube 101 and ratchet 108 are on the main body 105.

The axial tube 101 and ratchet 108 are securely connected together. Turning the handle 106 turns the ratchet 108, thereby winding the rope 103 onto axial tube 101. When using the come-along 90, the rope 103 is pulled out and the first hook 107 is hooked onto a heavy item or to a vehicle.

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continued from previous page ing on the axial tube 101. According to principles of the invention, the axial tube includes concave helical slots 104.

In the rope winding mechanism in figure 14, the surface of the axial tube 101 includes concave, helical slots 104 starting from a positioning hole 109 (shown in figure 15) along the winding direction of rope 103. A gap between the slots 104 is typically approximately the diameter of the rope 103 or slightly larger. The slots 104 can be made by such methods as injection molding, machining, or casting. The present invention is not limited to these manufacturing methods.

Figure 16 shows a first outwardly facing circumferential surface portion 180 a second radial surface portion 182 and a third radial surface portion 184. As illustrated, the second radial surface portion 182 and third radial surface portion 184 each diverges substantially smoothly from a radial orientation to a circumferential orientation. Also shown are

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In the rope securing mechanism of the invention as shown in figure 15, the installation hole 110 is on the aforemen-

Figure 16: Top view of the axial tube.

Figure 15: Side view of the axial tube including a rope securing mechanism.

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tioned axial tube 101. The installation hole 110 is connected to positioning hole 109. The diameter of installation hole 110 is greater than the diameter of the positioning hole 109.

A seal head 111 is on one end of the rope 103. The diameter of the seal head 111 is smaller than that of the installation hole 110 and larger than the diameter of the positioning hole 109. Thus the seal head 111 on rope 103 can be inserted into axial tube 101 through installation hole 110, and slid into continued on page 67

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continued from page 62 the positioning hole 109. The diameter of the positioning hole 109 is smaller than that of the seal head 111, and thus the rope 103 stays attached to the axial tube 101.

In the rope securing mechanism in the invention as shown in figure 15, a stopper plate 112 is located between the installation hole 110 and the positioning hole 109. The stopper plate 112 is part of the axial tube 101. Before the seal head 111 end of the rope 103 is inserted into the installation hole 110 and slid into positioning hole 109, the stopper plate 112 is bent to let the rope slide through. The stopper plate 112 is pressed down when the installation is complete to prevent rope 103 from sliding from positioning hole 109 back to installation hole 110.

Portable winch Pat. 8,083,213 U.S. class 254/336 Int. class B66D 1/36Â Inventor: Michael Tjader, New Richmond, WI. Assignee: TT Technologies, Inc., Aurora, IL. A portable winch and method of use is shown. One advantage of winches shown includes an ability to lower a boom or boom sections into limited access exit pit for winching operations such as pipe bursting. Sectional boom designs shown provide the ability to easily raise and lower a boom large distances without the need for a single long boom.

Selected winch designs shown include flexible inserts between the boom and the winch frame that help resist damage from unforeseen shifting of the device during operation.

Designs and methods shown also include multiple pulleys on a boom end unit. Fasteners are shown that reduce build up of debris.

Figure 17 shows a portable winch 100 including a frame 110 and a boom assembly 120. In one embodiment, a drum

Figure 18: Isometric view of a portable winch in an operational position.

figures 17 and 18 illustrates the movable connection system 126 as a combination of pivots and linkages driven by an actuator such as a hydraulic cylinder. Other embodiments include tracks and driving systems such as a toothed rack and a drive gear, etc. One advantage of linkage and pivot embodiments includes reduced manufacturing cost. In one embodiment, the boom end unit 124 includes a pulley as shown in figure 17. Other devices for redirecting a flexible line are also within the scope of the invention, such as skid plates, tubes, rollers, etc.

The boom assembly 120 of figure 17 is shown in a storage

Figure 17: Isometric view of a portable winch in a storage position.

114 is included to hold an amount of flexible line such as wire rope, cable, etc. that the portable winch is designed to pull. In one embodiment, the drum 114 is a separate component from a winch. In the embodiment shown in figure 17, a winch 112 is shown attached to the frame 110 adjacent to the boom assembly 120. In one embodiment, the winch includes a dual capstan winch. Other winch designs such as single drum winches, etc. are also within the scope of the invention. In one embodiment, the winch 112 is driven by hydraulic motors.

The boom assembly 120 as shown includes a boom section 122 and a boom end unit 124. In one embodiment, the boom assembly 120 includes a housing 130 with a boom driver and other devices that are explained in more detail below.

In one embodiment, the housing 130 moves through use of a movable connection system 126. One embodiment shown in

Figure 19: Close up view of a portion of a portable winch.

position suitable for transportation of the portable winch 100. Figure 18 shows the portable winch 100 of figure 17 with the boom assembly 120 in an operation position. The boom section 122 is oriented substantially vertically with respect to a ground surface with the boom section 122 extended and the boom end unit 124 located at an operational continued on next page Wire Rope News & Sling Technology February 2012

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continued from previous page distance below ground level. In one embodiment, at least one support strut 132 is included adjacent to the boom end unit 124. One or more support struts 132 are used to hold the pulley of the boom end unit 124 away from a wall of a pit during a winching operation.

In one embodiment, the boom assembly 120 is flexibly connected to the frame 110 within a given range of motion. In a winching operation, it is possible to encounter shifts in the boom. Such shifts may be caused by partial collapse of a wall that a support strut 132 is placed against. Having the boom assembly 120 flexibly connected to the frame 110 provides a safety margin in the event that a boom shift occurs caused by a wall collapse or other reason. If the boom assembly 120 were solidly fixed to the frame 110, the boom may become bent or damaged due to such a shift. Figure 19 shows one embodiment of a flexible connection between the boom assembly 120 and the frame 110. In figure 17, the flexible connection is accomplished using one or more elastomeric inserts 127. The elastomeric inserts are bolted or otherwise fastened between a component of the winch assembly 120 and the frame 110.

Figure 20: Side view of a portable winch in pipe bursting operation.

An advantage of elastomeric inserts includes inexpensive manufacture, and a limited range of motion, making the boom assembly 120 somewhat rigid with respect to the frame 110, yet still remaining flexible enough to prevent damage to the boom, etc. in the event of a boom shift.

Other flexible connections include, but are not limited to steel spring connections, compressed gas cylinder connections, etc. In one embodiment, the elastomeric inserts 127 are located between the movable connection system 126 and the frame. Other locations are also acceptable, provided the boom 122 is allowed a range of motion with respect to the frame 110.

Figure 20 shows an embodiment of a portable winch 200 similar to embodiments described above in one possible application, specifically a trenchless pipe bursting operation.

The portable winch includes a frame 210 with a boom assembly 220 attached to the frame 210. A first hole 250 and a second hole 252 are illustrated. In one embodiment, the first and second holes 250, 252 include manholes. A first pipe 254 is shown that is to be replaced in the pipe bursting operation. In one method of operation, a flexible line 240 such as a wire rope begins at a winch 212, and travels across a first pulley 213, then back over a second pulley 214, then down along a boom 221. By pulling over multiple pulleys in the configuration shown in figure 20, a tension generated in the flexible line 240 tends to pull the boom assembly 220 down against the frame 210 where the first pulley 213 is attached.

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Figure 21: Isometric view of a boom section.

pulling operation, in contrast to the connection system such as connection system 126 shown in embodiments described above. As a result the connection system does not need to withstand the full pulling force of the flexible line 240, and can be designed more economically. Although the configuration described above includes such advantages, the invention is not so limited. Other pulley systems and connection systems can be used within the scope of the invention.

In one embodiment, the position of the second pulley 214 locates the flexible line 240 within a cross section of the boom 221. An advantage of location within a cross section of the boom 221 includes keeping boom forces in compression during a winching operation, thus reducing the possibility of buckling the boom 221 or a boom section. The flexible line 240 then continues over a third pulley 216, and is redirected into the first pipe 254 from an end located in the first hole 250 to an end located at the second hole 252. A pipe bursting head 242 is then coupled to the distal end of the flexible line 240. In selected embodiments, a pipe bursting head 242 includes an expander, pipe cutter, pipe breaker, etc.

The winch 212 then pulls the pipe bursting head 242 through the first pipe 254 to burst or split the first pipe 254 into the surrounding soil. Fragments of bursted pipe 256 are shown in figure 20. In one embodiment, a second pipe 244 is also attached to the pipe bursting head 242 and is pulled into place as the first pipe 254 is burst. Although pipe bursting is illustrated as one application of a portable winch, other operations are also within the scope of the invention.

Ductile pipe splitting, pipe lining, or other pipe repair and replacement operations are also within the scope of the invention.

Figure 21 shows a boom section 300 according to an embodiment of the invention. In one embodiment, the boom section 300 is similar to boom sections discussed above. A boom body 310 is shown with a first end 312 and a second end 314. In one embodiment, an engaging feature or features 316 are included on a lateral side of the body 310.

In one embodiment, a number of spaced structures 318 are located on another lateral side of the body 310. In one embodiment, the spaced structures 318 are located on a side opposite the engaging feature or features 316.

Wire bolt Pat. 8,091,317 U.S. class 52/742.14 Int. class E04B 1/00Â Inventor: Charles T. Brackett, Jacksonville, FL. Assignee: Charles T. Brackett, Jacksonville, FL. A wire bolt comprising an elongated section of wire rope with a section of threaded stud attached to each end is disclosed for use in reinforcing concrete structures. Part of the wire rope portion is coated with a substance to prevent that portion from bonding with the concrete. The threaded rod portion can be attached within the concrete by epoxy or at-

tached to the concrete by appropriate mechanical means.

The wire bolt can be attached to a concrete building structure during initial construction of a structure or retrofit into existing structures. Wire bolts should be installed in areas susceptible to shear or bending failure and serve to prevent the concrete sections from separating in a seismic event.

Referring to figure 22, a wire bolt design consistent with the present invention is illustrated. Such wire bolt, indicated generally as 10, consists of a section of wire rope 13

Figure 23: Floor slab reinforcement.

Figure 22: Wire bolt embodiment.

with a solid steel attachment 15, 16 swaged to each end. As shown in figure 22, attachments 15, 16 may be solid plain or threaded short sections of steel that are attached to each end of wire rope 13 to form the wire bolt 10. The attachments 15, 16 are usually attached to the wire rope by cold forming of metal called swaging, which is known in the art.

Other methods of attaching may be used. The embodiment shown in figure 22 includes a 1/4-inch Φ wire rope portion 13 at least fifteen inches long, having a 1/2-inch Φ threaded

attachment 15, 16 approximately 4 1/2-inches long. Optionally, the attachment portions 15, 16 may include an appropriately sized nut 18, 19 threaded thereon. In a preferred embodiment, the wire rope portion 13 is coated with a substance 22 to prevent that portion from bonding with concrete.

Wire bolt 10 can be used in a variety of applications. The wire bolt can be installed during initial construction at locations susceptible to failure such as near the bottom of a concrete floor slab where cracks might form due to bending, or near the support columns where shear stresses may cause cracking. The wire bolt can also be retrofitted to existing structures. For retrofitting, a socket is formed from the external concrete beam or column, as shown in figures 23 and 24. Such socket should be deep enough to extend sufficiently beyond the failure zone. Epoxy, or other suitable adhesive is injected into the socket and a wire bolt is inserted. The wire bolt should be sufficient length to extend to the end of continued on next page

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continued from previous page the socket while leaving sufficient threaded portion exposed to attach a nut to the threaded portion. A metal plate may be installed with the nut to provide a firm seating surface.

Such metal plate can be left flush with the edge of the concrete. The metal plate can be fixed in place by a suitable adhesive, such as epoxy and the like.

Constructional stretch is a permanent elongation of the wire rope. This permanent stretch starts immediately when the load is applied. This is caused by the strands adjusting themselves into the small voids between the strands

Figure 25: Schematic perspective view of a spigot end.

Figure 24: Alternative floor slab reinforcement.

and their seating onto the core. The normal length of constructional stretch is approximately 1/2% of the length of rope under load. The constructional stretch for short segments of wire can be removed in two ways, pre-stretching and post tensioning. Pre-stretching the load should be equal to or greater than the working load but must not exceed the elastic limit. Post tensioning is performed at installation of the wire bolt during construction and is used only in the wire bolt to pre-stretch the wire rope portion, which is then released to post-tension.

A wire bolt as taught herein can be installed in new or existing concrete in a variety of applications. The embedded attachments behavior will follow the same requirement as any bonded or grouted anchor with their strength dependant on embedment, edge distance spacing and type of material embedded in. The attachments of short sections of allthread (A-36) steel rods have strength based on size and embedment.

A wire bolt that is pre-stretched can be installed by embedment in the concrete during new construction or embedded in epoxy in pre-drilled holes in existing concrete. A part of the wire rope portion of such wire bolt should be coated to prevent bonding to the concrete in order to allow the elastic properties of the wire to move during an earthquake.

Universal end fitting and fastener assembly comprising such an end fitting Pat. 8,069,539 U.S. class 24/265H Int. class F16B 7/20Â Inventor: Thierry Joubert, Ambert, FR., Xavier Joubert, Ambert, FR. Assignee: Joubert Productions, Ambert, FR. An end fitting comprises a spigot end designed for reversibly fixing a wire rope to any type of functional part integral with or attached to a socket end. This spigot end is defined by an outer shell which is cylindrical overall; the shell comprising at least one fin. The spigot end comprises an axial housing designed to accommodate the wire rope. The shell has at least one through opening capable of accommodating an element for attaching said wire rope such as a pin 70

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or a rope fastener which passes through the wire rope. The spigot end is designed to cooperate with said socket end like a bayonet.

Figures 25 and 26 show a first embodiment of spigot end 100 which is the subject of the invention. Spigot end 100 comprises an outer shell 101 which is cylindrical overall and defines the main body of spigot end 100. Also, this shell 101 ends with a shoulder 120 which is used as an axial limit stop when the spigot end is in position in a matching socket end integral with or attached to a functional part. The external profile of shoulder 120 is determined depending on the constraints for gripping spigot end 100 and the aesthetic constraints associated with the connection of the volumes of the various parts. Spigot end 100 comprises an axial housing 102 which here opens out at both ends of spigot end 100. Nevertheless and as required, axial housing 102 can be closed at one end. Axial housing 102 is designed to accommodate the wire rope (not shown) which is intended to be attached to spigot end 100.

To obtain this attachment of the wire rope inside housing

Figure 26: Schematic perspective cutaway view of the spigot end.

102, shell 101 has four openings 117, 118, etc. which are diametrically opposite relative to the axis of revolution of shell 101. Thus, the four openings are opposite each other two by two as shown in figure 26. Openings 117 and 118 thus face two openings drilled in the wall of the shell opposite the axis of revolution. This way, it is possible to insert a rope fastener 116 through openings 117 and 118 and then reclose this rope fastener 116 at the outlet of the two opposite openings. Rope fastener 116 thus makes it possible to attach a wire rope in housing 102 of spigot end 100 and hence maintain their cohesion when the wire rope is subjected to tensile stress.

According to one advantageous aspect of the invention, a recess 115 is made in each of fins 111, 112 so as to fit the

tip and the bases of rope fastener 116. Thus, no protrusion exceeds fins 111 and 112 and this facilitates cooperation of spigot end 100 with the matching socket end and avoids any protruding parts potentially capable of causing injury. Recess 115 here consists of a groove made by milling or molding in the middle of each fin 111 and 112.

In the example shown in the figures, spigot end 100 is a plastic part but it can also be made of metal. Spigot end 100 can be obtained by machining or by molding operations and re-machining. The dimensions of spigot end 100, in particular the thickness of the walls that form its outer

Figure 28: Schematic perspective view of a spigot end in accordance with a third embodiment of the invention.

Figure 27: Schematic perspective view of a spigot end in accordance with a second embodiment of the invention.

shell, are determined by the mechanical stresses likely to be exerted on spigot end 100 through the wire rope under tension. Thus the dimensions can be adapted to suit the intended application.

Figure 27 shows spigot end 200 in accordance with the variation in figures 25 and 26. Equivalent elements have the same reference numbers plus 100. Thus, spigot end 200 has outer shell 201 which is cylindrical overall and axial housing 202 which is open at both ends. The term “cylindrical� here denotes the shape of a straight cylinder. Similarly, spigot end 200 has shoulder 220 similar to shoulder 120 of spigot end 100. In contrast, spigot end 200 has four rather than two fins 211-214 in the form of crown segments having a rectangular cross-section. These four fins 211-214 are, according to the invention, diametrically opposite, two by two, relative to the axis of revolution of shell 201. In fact, increasing the number of fins makes it possible to improve retention of spigot end 200 in the matching socket end. Also, the through-openings here are not machined in fins 211-214 but in outer shell 201. Nevertheless, they are also made at the level of recess or flat 215 which is capable of accommodating the protruding parts of the means of attaching the wire rope to spigot end 200.

Figure 28 shows a spigot end 300 which has a structure similar to the two previous end fittings. This end fitting also has an overall cylindrical outer shell 301. In the example de-

scribed, said spigot end has two fins 311 designed, as already described, to cooperate with corresponding recesses or housings made in the socket unit. These fins 311 are also provided with an opening 317 designed to let through a rope fastener for fastening the wire rope at this level. The spigot end has a shoulder 320 similar to shoulder 120 of spigot end 100.

In this embodiment, end 321 of the spigot end opposite shoulder 320 comprises a bump 322 which protrudes relative to the plane which bounds said end. This bump 322 is, in this case, in the form of a crown segment. It is designed to cooperate with the bottom of the socket end with which the spigot end is designed to cooperate. In addition, shell 301 of said spigot end has, in the vicinity of the end in question 321, a cut-out 323 which extends over part of its circumference. This cut-out 323 is designed to give the spigot end a certain degree of elasticity in this area despite the fact that said end fitting is made of a relatively rigid plastic material (polyoxymethylene or polyamide). Because of this cut-out 323, spigot end 300 is capable of bending slightly when bump or protrusion 322 cooperates with the bottom of the corresponding socket end and, in particular, makes it possible to force reversible locking of the spigot unit in the socket unit. WRN

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Compact stackers are fully powered, ergonomic

New Stack-n-Go™ fully powered compact stackers from Southworth Products Corp offer many ergonomic features. Built on short but stable wheelbases, they provide maximum maneuverability, even in tight quarters. Ideal for use in light manufacturing, warehousing, assembly, and retail facilities, these versatile, multi-purpose machines are designed for transporting loads on pallets and stacking loads up to 7½ feet high. They can also serve as adjustable workstations for loading and unloading.

Stack-n-Go™ powered stackers have narrow, 62-inch-high masts and offset control handles to give the operator a clear view of what’s up ahead, with virtually no blind spots. The ergonomically designed handle puts all controls within easy reach, for maximum comfort and convenience. Forward- and reverse-drive “thumb” switches are

SafeWorks hires Erik Elzinga as vice president - engineering

SafeWorks, LLC has recently welcomed Erik Elzinga to the new role of Vice President Engineering with global responsibility, and emphasis on new product development for its Power Climber Wind, Power Climber, and Spider brands.

Based in the company’s Seattle Headquarters and reporting to CEO Scott Farrell, Erik joins us from a 15 year career with Terex Aerial Work Platforms, manufacturer of Genie branded aerial lift equipment, in progressive assignments from project engineer to his last role as Global Engineering Se-

located on both sides of the handle to accommodate left- or right-hand operation. An auto-reversing “belly switch” protects the user from potential injury when walking the unit backwards, while an automatic brake immediately halts travel when the handle is released. Power is achieved via two 12volt batteries, and a 110-volt built-in charger is standard.

Stack-n-Go™ stackers are available in fork-over design for use with open-bottom pallets and in straddle design for use with closed-bottom pallets. Fork-over models have fixed forks that are 21 inches or 27 inches apart (outside dimension). Straddle models have an adjustable fork carriage for easy fork adjustment, from 12½ inches to 27 inches apart (outside dimension).

Straddle legs are adjustable from 40 to 50 inches apart (inside dimension).

One Stack-n-Go™ straddle model features a 2-stage extendable mast that enables the unit to lift loads of

nior Director. His extensive knowledge of lifting people and materials brings excellent perspective and industry knowledge to SafeWorks’ leadership in these areas. Erik is a graduate of the University of Florida with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.

“Sales from new products have become a major driver of SafeWorks’ growth. Adding Erik’s expertise as a dedicated leader leverages his extensive global experience through periods of explosive growth with Terex and strengthens our continued market leadership in powered access solutions for renewable energy, infrastructure and construction end-markets,” said Scott Farrell, CEO. About SafeWorks, LLC: SafeWorks, LLC is a global leader in manufacturing and distributing powered access and safety solutions for a wide variety of energy, infrastructure, construction and restoration industries. Formed in 1997, SafeWorks, LLC brings together the most trusted and experienced brands in the industry, Spider, Power Climber and Power Climber Wind to make work at height a safe, reliable, productive experience.

With innovative technology capabilities and its worldwide sales, service and support network, SafeWorks is well-positioned for continued growth as the market leader.

Erik Elzinga

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up to 2,500 pounds 7½ feet high (90 inches). All other models have a lifting height of more than 3½ feet (43 inches) and a lift capacity of 3,000 pounds.

For more information, contact Brian E. McNamara, President, Southworth Products Corp, P.O. Box 1380, Portland, ME 04104-1380, TEL: (207) 8780700, FAX: (207) 797-4734, e-mail: salesinfo@southworthproducts.com, www.SouthworthProducts.com.

Donna Levy

Southern Wire welcomes Levy to Los Angeles, CA

Southern Wire, a division of Houston Wire & Cable Company, is excited to announce the addition of Donna Levy as the company’s outside sales representative for Los Angeles. Levy will be responsible for development and cultivation of the west coast market.

Donna Levy, a 25 year veteran in the wire rope industry, joins Southern Wire with a wealth of experience including knowledge of the OEM, marine, environmental, rigging, and construction industries. Levy’s expertise will be continued on page 74

(E&E). DSM’s strategy, named Vision continued from page 72 2010 - Building on Strengths, focuses an in the extension Southern on asset accelerating profitable of and innovaWire’s exceptional customer service to tive growth of the company’s specialties our West Coast customers. portfolio.

Market-driven growth, innovation and increased presence in

Southern Wire introduces emerging economies are key drivers of Buth as new outside this strategy. The groupsales has annual representative sales of over EUR 8 billion and employs

Southern a division of Houssome 22,000Wire, people worldwide.

DSM ton Wire & Cable Company, is very ranks among the global leaders in pleased welcome as the many oftoits fields.Brian The Buth company is company’s newest sales repheadquartered in outside the Netherlands, resentative.

Buth joined the team in with locations in Europe, Asia, Africa Tampa, FL and will be responsible for and the Americas. maintaining and cultivating Southern About W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Wire’s relationships in the southeastW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., a ern portion ofsolutions the Unitedprovider States. with technology Brian Buth, a graduate of the Southnearly $2 billion in sales and more than ern Illinois University at Carbondale, 7,000 associates, specializes in fluoropolymer innovations that improve the quality of life. Over its 47year history, Gore has applied its world-renowned expertise with membranes, fibers and laminates to thousands of products in performance-

Brian Buth

is a seasoned sales professional with extensive knowledge of synthetic sling systems as well as rigging and industrial applications of wire rope, chain, and fittings. Buth brings more than a decade of experience to the Southern Wire family.

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understanding the unique buying requirements of their customers and delivering exceptional customer service and support.

Mr. Weaver and his family are excited about becoming part of the Lift-It family and we are excited with Dequoy’s endless energy and enthusiasm.”

Lift-It announces new outside sales representative

Lift-It Manufacturing promotes Mike Gelskey, Jr. to vice president

Lift-It Manufacturing is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. Dequoy Ralph Moken Weaver as company sales manager. Mr. Weaver has a large territory, planet earth and will be responsible for all intergalactic sales.

Mr. Weaver had a distinguished scholastic and athletic career at Riverside Community College and attended Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa on scholarship where he studied

Michael J. Gelskey, Jr. has been promoted to vice president. He currently serves as general manager and as quality director for Lift-It Manufacturing. Mr. Gelskey began working in the family business at the age of 13, in complete compliance with all child labor laws. A self-educated man, Mike (Junior) graduated from Bonita High School in 1994 and has worked in all areas of manufacturing since 1991.

In 1992, he set up the Lift-It TwinPath production department and has beenCity, a valuable technical consultant Wooden bridge at River Camp by St. Joe in Panama Florida using stainless steel cable. for the Slingmax organization for the twenty years. driven markets, such as automotive, past Bridges of Tallahassee, Florida are the Mr. Gelskey in the energy, electronics and industrial recipients ofwas theinstrumental Ultra-tec ® Cable registration to the filtration. The company operates in initial, Railing company Design Award, according to and now more than 45 facilities worldwide with ISO-9001 Raymond Quality Kechely,Standard vice president of registrationthe to the prestiheadquarters in Newark, Delaware, the Theupgraded Cable Connection manufacUSA. For more information, visit gious t ure rAS9100 o f U l tQuality r a -t e c ®Standard. ca b l e r a i l i ng “I am extremely proud of my son www.gore.com/omnibend. products. theaward incredible job hefor does our was given thefor design Dyneema® is a registered trademark andThe company, our people and most imporand fabrication of a wooden bridge at of Royal DSM N.V. our customers. never tire of River Camp

by St. Joe We in Panama City, A l l o t h e r t r a d e m a r k s a r e t h e tantly, property of their respective owners.

Cable Railing Design Award announced

Ralph Moken Weaver Goddard Specialty Construction of Peachtree City, Florida and Nature Business Administration and Mass Communication.

Dequoy (pronounced Da-Coy) will be responsible for managing inside sales, as well as maintaining and cultivating relationships in North America.

He will also be working with our representatives and promoting Lift-It at conferences, trade shows and product exhibitions.

Lift-It CEO, Michael J. Gelskey, Sr. met Mr. Weaver on a plane and was so impressed with his zeal, manners, managerial sense and experience in industrial marketing that he immediately decided to hire him away from a very large, industrial supply firm where he had distinguished himself with numerous sales awards.

M. Gelskey, Sr. remarks, “ I had met Dequoy’s father, nine years previously at the site of a rigging accident and after realizing I could have been sitting next to the orphaned son of a man, who had been using my sling, I hired him for his talent, not out of guilt!

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Florida. The bridge was built in 2005 using stainless steel cable as the railing in-fill.

According to Kechely, the award is given for the design of the railing in relation to its setting and for the appearance and quality of fabrication of the railing. The Cable Connection supplied the tensioners and mounting devices for the cable. Nature Bridges built the bridge. Goddard Specialty Construction installed the cables.

“Thin, yet strong stainless steel cable was the perfect choice for this project,” explained Brian Fischer of Goddard Specialty Construction. “You hardly see the cable, so the view is unimpaired.” Brian's partner, Don Goddard, added, “The Cable Connection had all the right stainless steel tensioners and Michael J. Gelskey, fittings that enabled us toJr. install the cable quickly and at a very reasonable the praise we receive and feel fortunate cost.

We are proud of this project and to have his bravado and enthusiasm thrilled to receive the design award. at the core of our organization”, remarks Mike Gelskey, Sr., Company CE0 and NEMA calls for Vietnam proud father. admission into the WTO in Mr. Mike Gelskey, Jr. resides as soonCalifornia as possible Southern with his wife, NEMA, and the their National Kimberly threeElectrical children: Manufacturers Justin Michael, Association, Aubrey Kayhas andhailed Ella the recent conclusion of negotiations Jean.

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Advertisers Index Please turn to the pages indicated below for a detailed view of advertisers’ products or services.

Accutech ........................................................62

Morse-Starrett Products Co. . ..........................30

All Material Handling .................................28, 62

MSM Tags ......................................................43

Allied Power Products .....................................46

New England Rope . ........................................61

Alps Wire Rope ...............................................48

C.S. Osborne & Co. . .......................................57

Associated Wire Rope & Rigging, Inc. .........42, 45

Reel-O-Matic ..................................................49

Buffalo Lifting and Testing ...............................39

Rope Block/Sea Link .........................................4

C. Sherman Johnson Co., Inc. . .......................31

Rud Chain, Inc. ...............................................15

Cableway Technical Services ..........................77

Sea Catch .......................................................74

Caldwell Company, Inc. .......................22, 37, 80

Sea-Fit, Inc. ................................................6, 35

Chant Engineering Co., Inc. .............................27

Sea-Land Distributors .........................19, 25, 29

Chicago Hardware ..........................................12

Slingmax Rigging Products ...............................3

Codipro ..........................................................38

Slinguard Protectors . ......................................52

The Crosby Group . ...............................2, 18, 51

Southern Weaving Company ...........................13

Distributor Computer Systems . .......................59

Strider~Resource . .........................................53

Downs Crane & Hoist Co., Inc. ........................59

Suncor Stainless, Inc. ............................... 40-41

Elite Sales .......................................................33

Taylor Chain Company ....................................71

Engineered Lifting Tech ...................................61

Van Beest BV ..................................................36

Esco Corporation ............................................24

Vanguard Steel, Ltd. ........................................17

Esmet .............................................................44

Wichard, Inc. ..................................................55

Gaylin International Co. Pte. Ltd. . ....................79

Windy Ridge Corporation ................................53

Holland 1916 ..................................................47

Wirop Industrial Co., Ltd. . ...............................23

Ken Forging, Inc. .............................................. 5

WSTDA . .........................................................69

KWS, Inc. .......................................................57

Yale Cordage . .................................................21

Letellier M.H.E. ...............................................73

Yoke Industrial Corp. .......................................11

Lincoln Hoist . ...................................................9

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HELP WANTED Looking for an outside sales person for wire rope shop and fall protection company.

Email resume to azwire@aol.com or email marty@ultrasafeusa.com.

Seeking to fill and inside customer service/ sales position with at least 3 years in wire rope and rigging hardware sales experience, aggressive and good communication skill, hard working with integrity. Our company is located in Southern California and has been in business for 15 years. We offer a competitive salary plus commission. Please fax resume to (909) 548-2884.

Established wire rope distributor in the Mid-Atlantic area is looking for an exp. outside sales representative to cover the Gulf Coast area. Strong background in cranes and wire ropes preferred. Ideal candidate has the ability to establish accounts and build strong business relationships.

Excellent base and commission, comp. vehicle and benefits. Submit qualifications to: hoistemployment@gmail.com.

Assistant foreman for East Coast’s largest importer & sling shop. We stock wire rope, hardware and mfg web slings. Must be “hands-on” and capable of directing shop personnel. Long term position with all benefits company paid, including profit sharing. The Bilco Group, Bilco-Doran-Shaw, Barry I. Lemberg C.E.O, Phone:(908) 351-7800 Fax: (908) 355-5544, E-mail: blemberg@bilcogroup.com.

We are looking for Sales Rep and Area Sales Manager for US market. YOKE USA, a highly respected brand in Grade 80 chain accessories, aggressively expanding its distribution and requires sales personnel. Experience in chain and wire rope sling industries is an asset. Send resume to Steven Hong, President of YOKE GROUP, 12850 Florence Ave., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670. Fax 562903-1468 eMail: adrianaa@yoke-usa.com.

POSITION AVAILABLE Southern Wire, a leading wholesaler/distributor of wire rope, slings, chain, and fittings is expanding sales force in other parts of the US. We are seeking Outside Sales Territory Managers for the Northwestern and Northeastern areas of the US. We offer a competitive base salary and commission program. Our excellent benefits package includes medical, dental, life, disability, paid vacation, vehicle allowance, and 401K. Please visit company website: www. houwire.com.

College degree preferred - Industry knowledge necessary. Send resume in confidence to: suzanna@southernwire.com or Fax# 662893-4732 *No calls please*.

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Company: Nelson Wire Rope Corporation Description: Established in 1979 in Hatfield, Pa, Nelson Wire Rope Corporation is a leader in wire rope fabrication and product distribution. We offer a wide array of products for the lifting, towing, construction, traffic control and other industries.

Location: Hatfield, PA Employee Type: Fulltime Industry: Manufacturing, Wire Rope and Sling Industry Job Title: Outside-Inside Sales Required Education: Industry experience, degree preferred Required Travel: Frequent Day Trips Other: Local Candidates Only Interested candidates should Email resume to: nwrjobs@gmail.com.

Job Duties and Responsibilities • Aggressively identifies and contacts prospective customers by phone and on-site visits. Ability to conduct sales presentations of company products or services while on site.

Plans effective strategies to capture new business. Proven ability to generate new sales.

• Provide inside customer service and sales.

Skills and Qualifications.

• Excellent customer service skills; strong written and verbal communication skills, outgoing personality, team player.

• Effective time management, organization and multi-tasking skills.

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.

Education and Experience: • Minimum of three (3) years experience in an Outside sales role, and five (5) years experience in Inside Sales/Customer Service experience.

• Knowledge of wire rope, crane cable, rigging, construction or related industry.

If you share our core values and the experience we are looking for we look forward to hearing from you. Email your resume and salary requirements to Attention Team Member Relations at csi@certifiedslings.com or fax to 407-260-9196.

Our Purpose: To grow through challenge and opportunity ‘with passion’ while benefiting team members, customers and vendors.

Our Core Values: Service, Quality, Team, Commitment, Communication, Integrity, Respect. Our Mission: We will be the most trusted and respected company in rigging, overhead lifting, load securement and contractor supplies in the world. Please visit our website at www.certifiedslings.com. EOE/ AA/MFDV. Drug Free Workplace – Drug testing required. Florida Locations include: Orlando, Miami, West Palm Beach, Fort Myers, Tampa and Ocala

Sales and Marketing Manager.

Leading manufacturer of stainless steel wire and specialty cable products has an opening for a Sales & Marketing Manager.

This role coordinates all sales and marketing activities across multiple product lines, providing accurate, fact-based information for active and potential markets, and implementing sales and marketing strategies to meet corporate objectives. Requirements: BS Marketing or related Business degree; 5+ years experience in a marketing and sales environment developing corporate image or brand identity (preferably B to B); 5+ years managing sales and marketing personnel; experience working with ERP software and CRM platforms; energetic, quick thinker, solid understanding of sales and marketing fundamentals; experience in aerospace and medical markets a plus. Please reply to: Box 11-05, c/o Wire Rope News & Sling Technology, P.O. Box 871, Clark, NJ 07066.

Experienced Regional Sales Manager wanted for KWS Inc., member of the THIELE GmbH & Co. KG.-group.

KWS Inc. is expanding in the USA and Canada markets. Candidate must have a strong understanding of overhead lifting equipment, chains, slings, hooks and accessories. A strong sales experience is a must.

Candidate must also have basic computer skills that include Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint.

KWS Inc. offers a competitive salary, profit sharing and many other benefits. Please email resume to THIELE Germany, Mr. Enrique Bermejo, Sales Director Lifting Department, Germany; Email: e.bermejo@thiele.de.

Certified Slings & Supply, Florida’s largest family owned rigging, contractor and industrial supply company is seeking experienced sales representatives for our Florida territories.

The suitable candidate will be aggressive and detail-oriented with experience in selling overhead lifting, load securement and fall protection equipment along with other contractor supplies and have a proven successful sales history.

Our 53-year family-owned company provides excellent benefits to our team members including medical insurance, holiday and vacation pay and 401(k) with company match.

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Well established wholesale distributor seeks business development/sales manager responsible for established customer base, developing new customers and finding new markets. Candidate must have a strong sales history and possess knowledge of the lifting and rigging industry. Candidate would monitor existing team of independent outside sales reps and be responsible for implementing sales goals and updating existing programs. Candidate must be willing to travel with the purpose of establishing and maintaining contact with customers and attending industry trade shows. Numerous benefits including, but not limited to, competitive salary plus commissions, paid time off, fully paid health insurance, dental and optical coverage and 401k. Please send resume to abanks@weisnersteel.com.

Leading manufacturer of below the hook lifting devices seeks a mechanical engineer who has experience with designing below the hook lifters. Experience with motorized control systems is a plus. Excellent working environment, compensation and schedule all in a fantastic, southern coastal area! Please send resume to Tandemloc, 824 Highway 101, Havelock, NC 28532, sandy@tandemloc. com or call 252-463-8113.

Sales manager needed for Chicago market. Must have strong understanding of wire rope, chain, hardware. Must be able to establish goals and achieve desired results. Computer literate, minimal travel. Salesforce knowledge a plus. Competitive salary and benefits. Reply to box 11-4, care of Wire Rope News, 511 Colonia Blvd., Colonia, NJ 07067. continued

Fabrication manager/customer service.

Work in a family oriented business with an opportunity to earn part ownership. Need someone 35-55+ years old who started at the bottom and looking to finish at the top.

Need hands on splicing experience, lifting rigging experience, test bed knowledge, able to direct small growing crew. Basic computer knowledge. Willing to train and mentor young employees. Top wages and benefits for the right individual. Problem solver that our customers can depend on. Honesty and integrity a must. Call Chuck Farmer, President, Rouster Wire Rope and Rigging, Inc., 304-228-3722, in confidence.

Outside Sales Representative needed for well established family owned business in Nashville, TN. Contractors & Industrial Supply Co., Inc. founded in 1970 is a distributor of wire rope, rigging hardware, chain and related industry products is expanding our sales team. The qualified individual will possess industry knowledge and the ability to develop new accounts and maintain existing.

We offer a competitive base salary plus commission and an outstanding benefits package. If qualified, please email your resume with salary history to kreff@cisrigging.com.

Established wire rope distributor in North America is expanding into crane/container rope and fabrication. We are looking for an experienced individual that can assist in formulating a marketing and business plan.

This position will eventually evolve to a sales manager or general manager. Fax your resume in strict confidence to 330-452-2331 attention Kris Lee or email to klee@afdindustries.com.

Texas Wire Rope Company expanding inside sales department. Individuals must have a strong technical, mechanical and basic mathematical aptitude, including basic computer knowledge. Selected candidates must be quality conscious and able to handle multiple tasks. Previous experience in the industrial supply market is necessary. We offer a drug-free, results-oriented work environment with excellent wages and advancement opportunities. Resumes received confidentially at wremployment@gmail.com.

POSITION WANTED West Coast Wire Rope and Rigging is looking to hire experienced riggers. Please send your resume to: 7777 7th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98108, attention manager.

Experienced Wire Rope Sling (Flemish) fabricator needed. CWR Hawaii is seeking a worker with knowledge and hands-on ability to fabricate wire rope and chain assemblies.

Full-time, 401k, vacation, insurance, and other benefits. Relocationg cost can be negotiated.

If you are interested in working for our company, please email me at allen@cwrhawaii.com or call me at 808-843-2020.

Former Division-Product Manager, Regional Outside Sales Manager desires southeast territory to manage and solicit accounts in the wire rope, chain, fittings, and related industries. Over 25 years experience including District Manager, Bethlehem Wire Rope, Regional Manager, Wire Rope Ind Product Manager, Rud Chain, Inc. Interested parties reply to M.E. (Mike) Givens mike90309@aol. com, ph 256-476-7700.

CABLEWAY TECHNICAL SERVICES GRAVITY RETURN Call Nielsen

Ocala, FL 24 Hour Fax (904) 342-0547 REPS WANTED Sunwood Inc., manufacturer of nets, slings, etc. since 1986, (formerly known as Fl. nets & slings supply) is expanding nationwide & looking for ambitious independent reps in US and Canada. Check our webiste: www. netsandslings.com before contacting us. We offer several protected territories without any restriction of house accounts. Generous commission paid when order is shipped (not when $ collected). Call 954-788-7144 or email: sunwoodfl@aol.com.

Sales rep wanted for an established manufacturer of labels and sling tags. We are looking for a sales rep that currently calls on sling makers and rigging companies and is familiar with the business. Etiflex is a registered trademark and manufactures custom sling tags for synthetic and wire rope slings and has an excellent reputation in the field.

We advertise in trade journals and exhibit at industry shows to generate brand awareness. Please contact us at info@etiflex.com or call 866-ETIFLEX for information.

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continued from previous page Warehouses where our highly competitive and top quality products are stocked to the roof.

Partner with us as we continue to grow market share. Check us out at www.allmaterialhandling.com and reach us at 877 543-8264, or email peter@allmaterialhandling.com.

Well established manufacturer of wire rope assemblies seeks manufacturer representatives for most major U.S. and Canadian markets. Visit our web site at www.thecableconnection.com. Please contact ray@thecableconnection.com or call Ray at (800) 851-2961 PRODUCT LINES WANTED Merit Sales, Inc. (Manufacturer Representatives) is looking for rigging related lines to compliment the manufacturers we currently represent. If you need sales people in any of our states (AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA) please contact. We also have 2 regional warehouses available in the Atlanta area & Houston. e-mail: johng@meritsalesinc. com or call Johnny at 713-664-7723.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Dragline range & depth extended using gravity return. Contact Nielsen by fax for details (fax) 904-342-0547 EQUIPMENT WANTED Wanted: Used test stand for manual hoists static testing, up to 10-tons. Contact John Gideon at jwg@meritsalesinc.com or Phone 770-266-5700.

Wanted 600t wire rope swaging press complete with dies in good order, please contact Tony@cman.co.nz, or Tele 0064 3 366 1528.

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Wanted: used wire rope cable, sizes 1-1/8”, 1”, and 7/8”. Please call for pricing. (740) 452-5770.

FOR SALE “Nets & slings” equipment (used) are offered at bargain prices (best offer will take it): Singer- 6 Sewing machines H.D. w/ benches. Kiwi- Web printing machine, complete set-up. Tinius Olsen- Testing machine 60K. Call us at 954-788-7144 or e-mail: sunwoodfl@aol.com.

3/16" Campbell Chain L3x51 Links- Zinc; 3200 pieces 48" with 5/16" S Hook; 1100 pieces 15" with 5/16"x2.5" O ring; In NC. Best Offer abarker@rmcord.com, 800-342-9130 x 124, Andy.

New wire rope with galvanized finish, 8 x19, Seale, fiber core, traction grade (1180/1770 N/mm²), right regular lay: 1/2” diameter, 14,900 lbs breaking load, .36 lbs/foot net weight, 25,000 feet; 5/8” diameter, 23,700 lbs breaking load, .58 lbs/foot, 16,489 feet.

Contact Draka Elevator Products at 1-877372-5237 for pricing.

New wire rope 1-1/8” drill line 5000 ft.

6x195 BR RR IFWV $30,000 Aud & freight.

Reply to Brayd Gross, Alpha Rigging SErvice, 11-13 Gerberte Court, Wurruk, Victoria, Australia, 3850. Phone 0011+61351461088.

Email: bgalpha@bigpond.net.au.

Crosby 7/8” G213 LPA shackles. NEW! 205 pieces available. Contact Gary Lee @ 1-800844-3517. Fax 251-456-8860.

Impacto Cable cutters and parts available from Windy Ridge Corp. Tamworth, NH,

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USA. 800-639-2021. Fax 603-323-2322.

WIRE ROPE FOR SALE New Wireco: 6 X 26 construction, 7/8” X 5,700’ - 1” X 1,000’ ¾” X 3,500 – 5/8” X 3,000’ – 1-3/8” X 1,350’ – 1-3/8” X 1,500” – 7/16” X 5,000’ – 1” X 300. All New. Also available: new assorted Esco shaclkes.

Call Tom at 541-378-7006 for pricing and details.

HARDWARE FOR SALE Overstocked inventory for sale, 1-3/8” Shackle, WLL 13½ ton, galvanized, round pin, import. Super savings. Sold in minimum lots of 50 at $9 each. Eric Parkerson, Certified Slings, 407-331-6677.

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE National swage 1000 ton press. Excellent condition, including most dies up to two inch, $110,000. Barry, Bilco Wire Rope & Supply Corp., 908-351-7800 or blemberg@bilcogroup.com.

1-800 ton Esco, 1-500 ton National, 1-500 ton Esco, 1-350 Esco. 713-641-1552.

150 ton, Wirop C-type hydraulic swaging machine for sale. Brand new, with 4 sets of dies. $19,500 or B/O. Call Oscar at 909-548-2884.

Wire Rope Grips for proof test machines.

Sizes: 1-1/2”, 2”, 2-1/2”. Load cells & digital read-outs also available. Call Joe Roberts (912) 964-9465.

Prooftesters for sale. Capacities from 20,000 lbs. to 3,000,000 lbs. Call Joe Roberts (912) 964-9465.

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