Round Sling With Eyes — Double Eye Sling, 1–1000 t

A round sling with eyes is a round sling whose sleeve is gathered and stitched into a reinforced eye at each end, so the article has a measured length and two pick-up points instead of an endless loop. It hooks and shackles like a webbing sling, keeps the round body that protects a machined or painted surface, and is built here in 27 LFTERS articles from 1,000 kg to 1,000,000 kg. The tables give the eye options, the article range with body dimensions, and the working figure for each hitch.

• Working load limit1,000 kg to 1,000,000 kg
• Article rangeLFTERS-1 to LFTERS-1000, 27 sizes
• Body6 × 40 mm up to 320 × 1,050 mm
• LengthEye to eye, 0.5–80 m
• Unit weight0.40 to 222 kg/m
• Safety factor7:1 to EN 1492-2 practice

What the two eyes change

The core still runs unbroken from one end to the other and the sleeve still takes the abrasion. What changes is the termination, and four things follow from it.

• The length is a specification. The eye-to-eye distance is set on the order, so the same lift repeated next month uses the same geometry.
• Each end has a known pick-up point. On an endless loop the sleeve bites wherever it lands; here the eye sits where it was made to sit.
• It sits properly on hardware. A formed eye stays in a hook bowl or over a shackle pin instead of bunching, so the sling is quicker to rig and easier to hand over between shifts.
• Inspection has a starting point. Load crosses the two stitched eyes, so they are checked first — the body second.

Eye types: what gets stitched at the end

Tell us the hardware the eye will sit on — hook bowl, shackle pin or lifting beam lug — and the eye is built to it. An eye that is too wide for the bowl loads the stitching unevenly; one that is too narrow is slow to rig and gets forced.

Round Sling With Eyes: key specifications

Article range: choose the model

The article number is the capacity: LFTERS-10 is the 10,000 kg sling, LFTERS-100 the 100,000 kg one. Thickness and width describe the body; the two length columns give the shortest and longest eye-to-eye distance built in that article; the last column is what the sling weighs per metre, which is what you add to the crane load.

* The factory sheet marks the LFTERS-1000 width 1,050 mm with an asterisk: the width column steps up by roughly 60 mm per 100 t from LFTERS-900 (990 mm), and 1,050 mm is the figure consistent with the listed 222 kg/m. Confirm that one cell against the drawing before the sling is made — everything else in the row is unaffected. The maximum length is 80 m in every article; the minimum is the shortest distance the body can be gathered and stitched into two eyes.

Capacity in each arrangement

The article table gives the vertical rating of one leg. Choking or basketing the same sling changes what it may lift: multiply by the factor for the arrangement you will actually rig, and do not add factors together.

In a basket the round body runs under the load, so the eye-to-eye length has to cover the path round the load plus the headroom to the hook — not just the height of the load. Two legs at an angle share the load by the angle factor of the set, which is why a pair of slings is never simply twice one sling; where the legs would go wide, a lifting beam keeps them vertical and recovers the capacity.

Length: what “eye to eye” means

Give us the distance between your two pick-up points and the headroom to the hook; the eye-to-eye figure follows from those two numbers. A sling that only just reaches forces the legs into a wide angle, which costs capacity — the same as buying a smaller sling.

Where it is used

• Repeat lifts of the same machine, mould or precast unit, where the geometry must not change between shifts.
• Rigging eye-to-eye onto a hook, a shackle or a beam lug, with the legs kept vertical.
• Basket lifts under rolls, pipes and machined shafts, where the round body wraps the curve and the eyes gather at the hook.
• Painted, coated or polished plant where a chain or a wire rope sling would mark the surface.
• Yard and rental work where the sling is handed between shifts and the pick-up points have to be obvious.
• Heavy work at the top of the range — the WLL 30T polyester round slings follow the same construction with a heavier body.

With eyes, endless, or flat webbing

All three are made on the same line. For the closed-loop form see the endless round sling; for the flat form see flat webbing slings. Where the eye has to survive hard service, the double sleeve round sling adds a second wear layer at the same rating; where weight is the problem, a UHMWPE round sling core does the same job at a fraction of the mass.

Inspection and limits

• Eyes first, then the sleeve, then the body — every use, in that order.
• Retire on broken, slack or pulled stitching, a sleeve worn thin at the throat, core visible through the sleeve, heat glazing or chemical staining.
• Never choke on the eye: the eyes are rated terminations, not a place to thread the body back through.
• Protect the edge wherever the body crosses a cut edge; the sleeve is abrasion protection, not armour.
• Do not drag a loaded sling, and store coiled, dry, off the floor and out of daylight.
• Record the lifts and any damage; follow your national practice and the training you have received.

Frequently asked questions

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Send the article number or the load, the distance between your pick-up points, the arrangement you will rig, the hook or shackle the eye will sit on, and any marking your market requires. We will come back with the body, the eye, the length, a sample and a factory-direct price. The rest of the series is on the round sling range page.

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