Rigging, or fighting gravity.

During construction and repair work, it is often necessary to install and even raise the heights of large-sized structures and equipment. Involuntarily I remember Ilf and Petrov with their "atmospheric column", which presses on everyone regardless of their social status and position. It is difficult even to imagine those "pillars" that are pressing on the multi-building elements and structures, machinery and mechanisms. But with these large-sized cargoes, which, it would seem, can not be moved, it is usually necessary to produce vertical and horizontal movements for loading, transportation and installation on the installation site. The activities associated with the lifting and moving of goods are usually called rigging. They are classified into the main, final and previous preparatory work for which estimates can be made at the rates of repair and construction collections.

Let us consider the approximate sequence of rigging operations in more detail. Preparations for rigging include the assembly of pulleys, the preparation of rigging devices, rigging and construction of bases, fastening and lifting of rigging devices and equipment, work on loading and unloading, and ripping of rigging devices and loads to the place of installation. The basic rigging works include slinging, lifting, lowering of loads during transportation, installation, fastening. The final works include the dismantling of rigging devices and equipment, as well as unloading cargo. Professional riggers should know and competently perform all the techniques and techniques of rigging and, of course, the associated rules and recommendations for safety.

Under rigging is usually understood as a complex of technologies and techniques for lifting various goods for the purpose of their further unloading or loading. Unlike, for example, from a usual set of loading and unloading works at an enterprise or a construction site, rigging services, as a rule, involve the use of special mechanisms and devices. Such works are traditionally used for unloading or loading heavy or bulky cargo, the configuration and weight of which does not involve the production of these actions manually. One of the most common applications of rigging is the transportation of large-scale equipment for industrial and construction purposes. Rigging machines and equipment is used not only to facilitate the task of movers. Loading of conveyors, machine tools, workbenches and other components of technological lines using rigging rigging and mechanisms promotes more precise organization of work and ensures the safety of expensive mechanisms. The qualified rigging of industrial equipment is in demand today in many branches of the national economy: from the food industry to the metallurgical complex. In addition, with the help of rigging, large-sized musical instruments, safes, trade equipment and other goods can be transported.

Professional rigging involves the use of a variety of equipment: cables, carbines, ropes, chains, ropes, lines, etc. The terms "rigging", "rigging services", "rigging", in principle, are synonymous with each other, since they can all serve as a designation of a set of actions aimed at loading and unloading various cargoes. If we talk about the nuances that distinguish these concepts, then, in contrast to, for example, "rigging" - "rigging services" also include the provision of supportive activities, such as the production of wooden pallets for the transport of goods or the pre-packaging of equipment to be moved.

The standard set of rigging works is limited to a set of manual and mechanized loading and moving of goods with the help of blocks, hoists, forklifts, lines and various lifting mechanisms. At the same time, a narrow specialized branch of rigging helps to successfully cope with a wide range of tasks related to the horizontal and vertical movement of bulky goods in the industrial, construction and household spheres.