Moving steel coils

[Anonymous]

What type of equipment would most commonly be used by workers at a rolling mill to load steel coils onto a gondola? Thanks.

[DTomajko]

An overhead crane equipped with either a coil "C" hook or a coil clamp would be the most common method. At least in the several mills I have been in.

[ndbprr]

The first answer is correct but there is one more caviat that being is the coil set down on the outside of the coil or on the end of the coil like a can. In the first case a c hook is used. In the second a machine flips the coil on end and a device that is electrically operated from the crane cab is dropped into the eye where one gripper is located and a second gripper outside the coil is contracted much like a vise to lift it. You don't want to be anywhere in the area when lifting coils. The chance of dropping one is very high. By the way the second method is commonly reffered to as "eye to the sky"