Poured sockets tomorrow
Funny this should come up. We are getting a new poured socket tomorrow on our 3" tow wire. Crowley for years would not use poured sockets because one had failed in 1955 or something. That meant we had a crew of rigger with a giant portable riggers screw who would travel around resplicing the 2 1/2" tow wires we used at the time. About 6 years ago with Tom Crowley Sr. gone we finally went to poured sockets. We still have a crew of riggers that come and do the job, we are scheduled for new a socket tomorrow. They redo the sockets every two years or 20K miles which ever comes first.
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