Plain Lab · logbook
Lifting Gear Register
Sixty lifting-gear records ruled into six columns, with a place to write the examination date and the next one due, and no printed examination interval.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
- Rows per page
- 24
Sixty register pages carry six ruled columns: item, ID, SWL, certificate number, examined, next due. A sling with no certificate number written against it is a sling nobody can trace back to the paperwork the day an inspector asks to see it.
Twenty-nine lined pages follow, for what six columns cannot hold: why an item was taken out of service early, what a repair actually involved, which supplier's chain kept failing before the rest got swapped out.
This register will not tell you how often a sling, a shackle or a chain needs examining, and it will not print a safe working load you can trust without checking the item itself. Those figures are set by the regulation you operate under, and set differently from one country to the next. Enter the load stamped on the item and the certificate number that covers it, and write the next-due date in once your examining body has told you what it is.
What is inside
- Register
- 60pp
- Six columns fixed, so an item's certificate and next-due date are never separated from the item itself.
- Notes
- 29pp
- Lined, for repair and supplier history a six-column row cannot carry.
- Reference
- 6pp
- Length and weight tables computed from definitions, plus emergency numbers verified against two independent sources.
- Last leaf
- 1pp
- A pen-test page, printed on purpose, so a real register page does not take the hit.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
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Questions
What are the six columns?
Item, ID, SWL, Certificate no., Examined, Next due.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 100 pages, 5.72 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. Start it whenever the first item is registered.
Does it tell me my examination interval?
No, and that is deliberate. Examination intervals and safe working loads are set by the regulation you operate under and by the item itself, they differ by jurisdiction, and a printed book cannot be corrected. The columns give you a place to record both once you know them.
What does SWL mean on the column heading?
Safe working load. You write in the figure stamped or certified on the item itself; the book does not supply one.
What ruling are the notes pages?
Lined, 7.14 mm pitch, 9/32 inch, twenty-four lines to the page.
Take a leaf from such men’s ledger and you have their life.
