Dawson Construction Plant Ltd is pleased to announce first sale of a pair of their latest heavy lifting shackles with a safe working load of 100tonnes, this addition to the range of remote release shackles, designed and manufactured in the UK and sold by Pilequip Australia Pty Ltd to Bam International for use on an offshore project.

Although the shackles weight 410 kgs each, they can be handled with ease by 4 lifting points to engage it onto the tube in the correct horizontal position at 180 degrees opposite, the hydraulic pump then engages the pins through the tube wall so they are fully engaged by using a spreader beam between the shackles and the crane line, allows the lift to commence, once vertical and in position no doubt many metres above ground level, the pins are then extracted hydraulically to release the tube and complete the lift.