Built from carbon steel, the Machining & Welding 5/16 IN Wire Rope Ferrule swages onto 5/16 inch wire rope to form a rated eye or splice.

Ferrules like this compress around a wire rope loop to form a rated eye termination, a standard method for creating slings and rigging assemblies in house.

Material choice between carbon and stainless steel lets you match the ferrule to the wire rope's own material and the assembly's environment.

A properly swaged ferrule can achieve close to the full breaking strength of the wire rope, which loose clips generally cannot match.

Maintenance departments, fabrication shops, warehouses, and construction crews all rely on equipment in this category to handle lifts that come up again and again. Having the right beam or crane on hand means operators are not left rigging a load with mismatched slings or borrowed hardware, which keeps every lift consistent regardless of who is running it that day.

Rated capacity should always be treated as a hard limit, not a target, and a quick visual inspection before each lift is one of the simplest ways to keep a lifting operation safe. Make sure your operators are trained on the specific rigging setup this equipment requires, and confirm that anyone signing off on a lift understands how to read the working load limit and match it against the actual load being moved.

Equipment that sees daily use benefits from a quick visual check every time it comes out of storage, not just during scheduled inspections. Catching a small issue, like surface corrosion or a bent component, before it becomes a larger problem keeps rigging hardware safe and in service longer.

Full specifications are listed below so you can confirm fit against your current rigging before it ships.

The Machining & Welding 5/16 IN Wire Rope Ferrule is ready to swage onto your next wire rope assembly.

Product Info:
•  Wire Rope Diameter: 5/16 in
•  Material: Carbon steel
•  Shipping Weight: 0.08 lbs