LIFTING TONGS

Lifting Tongs are specialized lifting tools used primarily for moving steel shapes in a repetitive production environment. Steel mills, steel forging and steel casting plants utilize tongs because they are designed to fit a limited range steel sizes and weights, and are capable of handling differing steel types at high temperatures.

These are 3 basic categories of Lifting Tongs.

1. Supporting Tongs – are for single size objects that have clearance underneath for lifting feet
2. Gripping Tongs – are for materials like ingots, rolls, tubes, pipes and other round our cylindrical objects
3. Pressure Tong – grip the vertical sizes of slabs, bales, billets, or other flat or round objects. Pads or Pins provide surface friction to maintain safe holding pressure.

Brands of Tongs Available:

Bushman – Severe duty lifting tongs with a Bushman Auto-Latch for hands free operation of the clamping mechanism.

Liftmax – Light duty lifting tongs designed lift specific loads like machined parts, forgings, tooling.