Hand-Spliced Slings

Hand-Spliced Slings represent the traditional craft of wire rope sling fabrication. The eye is formed by tucking the individual wire rope strands back into the body of the rope by hand — a technique sometimes called the "Old Navy Splice." This method produces an extremely strong and smooth termination that maintains a high percentage of the wire rope's rated breaking strength.

Hand-splicing requires skilled technicians and more fabrication time than mechanical pressing, but it delivers a sling with a flexible eye that conforms naturally to hooks, pins, and other connection hardware. The smooth, tapered profile of a hand-spliced eye reduces stress concentration at the termination point and is preferred in applications where the sling eye must wrap around smaller diameter pins or hooks.

Amick has maintained hand-splicing expertise at our Pittsburgh facility since 1958. All hand-spliced sling assemblies are built with a 5:1 design factor. We fabricate single-leg, multi-leg, and choker configurations to your specifications.

Type

Hand-spliced (tucked strand) wire rope sling assemblies. Available in single-leg, multi-leg, and choker configurations with hardware.

Applications

Heavy industrial lifting, marine, construction, and any application where a flexible, smooth-profile sling eye is preferred. Well suited for use on smaller diameter pins, hooks, and shackles where a hand-spliced eye's ability to conform is an advantage over a pressed fitting.

Exceptions

Same removal-from-service criteria as all wire rope slings per ASME B30.9: broken wires exceeding allowable limits, kinking, crushing, birdcaging, corrosion, heat damage, or end fitting damage. The D/d ratio (ratio of the pin or hook diameter to the wire rope diameter) affects sling capacity — using undersized connection points reduces working load limits.