Product prints or engineered drawings of the load may indicate the final assembled weight.
Refer to Engineered Prints or Design Plans In many instances, your overhead crane was probably designed with a duty cycle and capacity specifically for that repetitive lifting application, so the weight of the load was accounted for when the crane was built. If it’s a load that you regularly lift and move through your facility-like a steel coil or a bundle of pipes or lumber-then you will already know the weight of the load. Look for any visual indications of load weight prior to selecting the appropriate lifting and rigging equipment. The load may be marked with the weight by the manufacturer, or may have been previously calculated and marked.
Look at the Load to See if the Weight is Marked There are many different ways you can easily identify the weight of a load without doing any type of calculations or using specially-engineered load cells (like the Crosby | Straightpoint load cells) or dynamometers.
