Of the rigging companies in Cape Town, we at RigRite are dedicated to providing safe, reliable rigging and machine moving. What exactly does a rigging company do and how do they achieve it? This guide will explain all about the function of rigging companies in the context of Cape Town. Let’s begin.
What Is a Rigging Company?
A rigging company is an organization that offers rigging services to the public or private sector. Rigging companies consist of a few key members. The foreman is the main project manager of the company. He arrives on site and inspects what work need to take place and how to best achieve the task at hand. In order for the rigging team to arrive on site well prepared, the Foreman has to prepare all of the safety protocol that needs to take place by his team during his site inspection. During the rigging job the Foreman has to oversee that everything is going according to the project outline and plan. The foreman coordinates the rest of the team to ensure their safety and to the goods being moved
What is a Rigging Team?
The riggers consist of the main workforce of the company. They use specialized rigging equipment to move heavy loads and move large objects into position. The rigging team fastens objects with ropes and slings.
Rigging companies employ truck drivers to transport the machinery and goods loaded onto the companies crane trucks.
A crane operator uses the crane to hoist and lift heavy objects into place under the guidance of the foreman or project manager and with assistance of the riggers.
The driver simultaneously drives the truck into position as needed by the rest of the team.
The whole rigging team needs to be in constant communication while the job is taking place. A good rigging team understands each individuals strengths and weaknesses and uses each member to the best of their abilities.
What do Rigging Companies do?
A Rigging company uses specialized rigging equipment to move and maneuver heavy objects into place. Rigging companies typically consist of a team of riggers led by a project manager, truck drivers, crane operations and specialized rigging equipment. Rigging companies use crane trucks as both transport and rigging machinery which is able to lift and hoist heavy object into place and transport them also.
How do Riggers move such heavy objects?
Rigging companies use specialized rigging equipment to lift, hoist, move, and position heavy machinery and object into place. They also use a team of well coordinated riggers to achieve the task of moving and installing of heavy equipment and machinery.
What kind of tools do Rigging Companies use?
The rigging team uses specially engineered rigging equipment to move heavy machinery, shipping containers, and factory equipment into place. This equipment is engineered to withstand very heavy loads, often exceeding metric tons. This consists of Synthetic slings, shacklebolts, various hooks, ropes of specialized thicknesses, hydraulic jacks, mounted cranes, and heavy duty castors.
This equipment is used to move, shift, lift, hoist, rotate and position the heavy object in question. The team uses this tooling as an aid during a rigging job to enable them to position heavy machinery while it is hoisted in mid air.
Specialized Rigging Equipment
Ropes and Slings secure machinery which can come in any shape and size . The synthetic material used to manufacture the rigging ropes and slings is very strong, able to take a few tons of load pressure. Rigging ropes and slings prevent the object from moving or slipping when a crane lifts the object. Ropes and Slings are use to get a good and firm hold onto the object in order to hoist it with the crane truck.
Machinery is maneuvered into position with the use of Castors and Jacks. The jack is used to raise the heavy machinery. The castor skates or dollies are pushed underneath the object. The Rigging team can now push the object loaded onto the castors.
Hooks and Swivel Hooks are used on the chain of the crane truck. This equipment enables quick and secure fastening of the slings and ropes used to secure objects. Swivel hooks enable loads to be turned while being hoisted with the crane.
All equipment is rated by the amount of weight they can lift and amount of force they can withstand. Safety checks of rigging equipment is essential to the safety of the team,machinery and the goods in transport. RigRite always maintains its equipment up to standard and we employ a team of experienced and loyal riggers to ensure the job is always done correctly.
Where do Rigging Companies work?
Rigging takes place on the job site. The rigging team arrives on site with all of their rigging equipment ready and prepared for the job.
The site may be a :
- construction site,
- a factory,
- a shipping yard,
- a shipping container depot,
- or a private property.
Wherever the machinery, shipping containers or heavy equipment is located this is where the rigging work takes place. If the object requires relocation, then the team rigs the object out and onto the truck bed and transports it to another location . There the process repeats itself as the rigging team rigs the heavy objects off the truck and into position at its final destination according to the clients specifications.
Who hires Rigging Companies in Cape Town?
Rigging companies mainly service industrial industries:
- Rigging companies transport Heavy construction equipment and shipping containers used for storage on construction sites.
- Factory and manufacturing plants need factory machinery and electrical generators rigged in and out by rigging companies.
- Shipping container depots also need empty shipping containers moved and transported by local rigging companies.
- Engineering companies that manufacture heavy machinery or require heavy lifting and transport also employ rigging companies. Rigrite services Kaltron an electrical engineering company to transport heavy equipment and machinery.
- Newly emerging sectors of industry like Wolfpack also employ Rigrite. Wolfpack Redesigns and re-purposes Shipping containers into a vast array of applications.
- Private clients who also need to install and remove heavy items onto their properties. Local shops in Cape Town made from converted shipping containers also require the services of RigRite.
Rigging and Moving of heavy objects can significantly influence an environment for the better, bring change, positivity and progression. The old is rigged out and the new is rigged in.
Why are Rigging Companies needed in Cape Town?
The great need to move, transport and relocate heavy objects exists in almost any industry. Companies like us at RigRite, meet this need by providing professional secure and experienced rigging services to both the private and public sector. Companies that offer rigging services are very valuable to the industry of South Africa, by providing efficient safe and reliable transport of heavy machinery, the country can continue to grow and realize its potential.
An example of how rigging companies bring social change and progress to society through the rigging of heavy objects, can be seen when RigRite removed the Cecil John Rhodes statue from the University of Cape Town campus. Through the use of a rigging company and its equipment society progressed. One relocation completely transformed the identity of Cape Town’s campus forever. Read the article and see the team in action here.