The challenge for riggers and crane crews in general is that subs, and even GC's, show up with garbage lifters. They have silly ideas like lifting pallets of unstable items. The shrink wrap on the paint pails is an example. Twice in my career I was working from the blind and the rigger sends up pallets of paint on straps. Both of these occasions I saw the twisting start and make a run for the roof. Once I got it landed safely. The other time I was clear of people, but not to the roof yet and we painted that brand new roof with hundreds of gallons of paint. It wasn't a lift I would have made in either case had I seen what was happening. So how do we prevent all of these dangerous lifts? Pallet Bins. 

We have a Pallet bin that can be sold with ramps. If you get your subs and jobs to put everything on castors, you can literally roll everything in the bin, and then roll it out. You would have no more straps going under and through things. You can make two lifts at once and stop the silly conversations about "Multiple lifting" and how people apply that to standard rigging practices when it only applies to ironwork in the US. You could set up 2,3, or 4 lifters at one time and fly what would be 8 lifts to a floor at a time. If this were planned ahead, it can literally speed up your operations for the cost of $3300 and shipping. You have a multiple million dollar lifting program that can pick up the pace for $3300. Let me do the math to see if that makes sense.... 

A lot of what we've learned to live with just isn't workwise. We should just be flying bins and the subs can get their product out of the bin. The right way would be for everything to be on castors and you never cut free of the bin. But you could have three or four on a job and just have the next one stocked up to grab and go. It's a terrible practice to stop the crane from moving at $500 an hour or more. When you lose 2.5 minutes its more than $20. You need to keep the next lift always ready and eliminate time loss at every turn. Our Crane Pallet Bins can do just that and provide a rating where the subcontractors are having you lift things that aren't rated which is both illegal, and unsafe.