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Sharrow Lifting Products

Employee owned · Little Canada, Minnesota

We don’t just sell the rigging. We build it, inspect it, and train your crew on it.

Most of what leaves our building is made to order in our own shops — then inspected, repaired, and re-certified by our own technicians. 74 years of it, and every share owned by the people doing the work.

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74 years
Lifting since 1952
100%
Employee owned since 2000
All brands
Inspected and repaired, not just ours
5 states
Field service in MN, WI, ND, SD and IA

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Not sure what you need? Describe the job.

What you’re lifting or holding, how, and roughly how heavy. We’ll point you at the right lines in our catalog — or tell you it’s a job for a phone call.

What Sharrow actually does

Four capabilities under one roof

Most customers find us for one of these and are surprised by the other three. If you buy slings from us, we can also inspect them, repair them, and certify the people using them.

01

Supply

Slings, rigging hardware, cranes, hoists, hydraulics, fall protection, and load securement — stocked and ready to ship.

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02

Fabricate

Wire rope, chain, and web assemblies built to your print, swaged and proof tested in our shops. Custom below-the-hook devices engineered to your load.

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03

Service

OSHA-required inspection, repair, and re-certification on cranes, hoists, slings, fall protection, and hydraulics — every brand, not just what we sell.

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04

Train

Two-hour seminars through 40-hour qualification programs. Rigger, operator, signal person, inspector, load securement, and fall protection.

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Products

Everything between the hook and the load

From a single shackle to a complete crane system — and the shop capability to build what isn't on a shelf.

All products
Wire rope sling legs hanging from the hook block of an overhead crane inside a plant.
Made in our shop

Wire Rope & Assemblies

Fabricated, swaged, and proof-tested in our own shops

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A multi-leg alloy chain sling shackled to a crane hook against a clear blue sky.
Made in our shop

Lifting Slings

Wire rope, chain, web, and roundsling — made to length

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A shop wall rack holding shackles, hoist rings, and swivel hoist rings in assorted sizes.

Rigging Hardware

The stocked components that keep jobs moving

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The hook block of an overhead bridge crane on an orange runway beam, seen from below.

Cranes & Crane Systems

New systems, modifications, and runway upgrades

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A row of orange lever hoists hanging with their load chains and hooks.

Hoists & Trolleys

Electric, manual, and air — plus the parts to keep them running

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A Sharrow-built lifting beam rated 20,000 lb working load limit on the shop floor.
Made in our shop

Below-the-Hook & Specialty Lifting Devices

Engineered for the lift you can't do with standard rigging

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A fabricator assembling an alloy chain sling with a blue oblong master link and grab hooks.
Made in our shop

Chain & Fittings

Grade 80 and Grade 100, bulk and assembled

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A technician positioning a hydraulic jack under a rail car alongside the track.

Hydraulics

Cylinders, pumps, and jacks — supplied, repaired, and validated

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Full body harnesses and lanyards displayed on a wall rack.

Fall Protection & PPE

Systems, equipment, inspection, and the training to use it

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A red ratchet load binder tensioning transport chain across a truck deck.

Load Securement

Cargo control that passes a roadside inspection

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An operator using a vacuum lifter to move a large sheet of finished panel stock.

Material Handling & Tools

Moving loads once they're on the ground

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Services

The part most suppliers can't do

Anyone can ship you a sling. Keeping it legal, in service, and documented is a different business — and it's most of ours.

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A technician operating a pendant control while inspecting an overhead crane hook.
On-site or in-shop

Crane & Hoist Inspection and Repair

OSHA-required inspections, and the repairs they turn up

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A rigging rack hung with chain slings, wire rope slings, and roundslings awaiting inspection.
On-site or in-shop

Sling & Rigging Gear Inspection and Repair

Tag it, track it, repair it — or take it out of service

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A four-leg chain bridle lifting a fabricated steel weldment inside the Sharrow shop.
In-shop

Custom Fabrication & Engineered Solutions

Built to your print, in our shop, with the paperwork

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Harnesses, lanyards, and anchorage connectors laid out for annual inspection.
On-site or in-shop

Fall Protection Inspection and Repair

Annual competent-person inspection on harnesses and systems

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A hydraulic jack being set and tested in the field.
In-shop

Hydraulic Inspection, Repair & Validation

Proof that the cylinder still does what it says

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Two workers in high-visibility vests and hard hats reviewing lifting equipment in a plant.
On-site or in-shop

Training

From two-hour seminars to 40-hour qualification programs

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Industries

Built around how you actually work

A taconite operation on the Range and a machine shop in the metro need very different things from a rigging supplier. Seventy-plus years in Minnesota industry means we've usually seen your application before.

An electric mining shovel loading ore into a haul truck at an open pit.

Mining & Aggregate

Decades of Iron Range and taconite experience

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A manufacturing bay with overhead cranes running above fabrication workstations.

Manufacturing

Keeping production lifts running and documented

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Steel erection underway on a structural frame, with a mobile crane setting members.

Construction

Rigging, fall protection, and the paperwork the GC asks for

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A heavy crane hook block and sheave assembly silhouetted against the sky.

Energy & Utilities

Compliance-critical lifting in generation and transmission

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Locomotives and tank cars standing in a rail yard.

Rail

Shop and yard lifting for rail operations

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Rows of numbered steel billets staged in a mill under an overhead crane.

Original Equipment Manufacturers

Rigging built into your product, at your volume

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A millwright guiding a steel plate handled by a lifting magnet in a fabrication shop.

Mechanical & Industrial Contractors

Gear, inspection, and training for millwrights and riggers

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Employee owned

Every person you deal with here is an owner

Shorty Sharrow started C.C. Sharrow Co. in 1952. His three sons joined the business. In 1994 the company established an ESOP, and since 2000 it has been 100% owned by its employees.

That’s not a plaque on the wall. The person who swages your assembly, the technician who inspects your crane, and the rep who answers your call all have a stake in whether you call back. It is the most reliable explanation we have for why our customers stay.

Our storyCareers

Milestones

  1. 1952C.C. “Shorty” Sharrow founds C.C. Sharrow Co., Inc.
  2. 1994Employee Stock Ownership Plan established.
  3. 2000Sharrow becomes 100% employee owned.
  4. 2003Federal Crane & Hoist acquired; Sharrow Lifting Products becomes the umbrella brand.
  5. TodayFull fabrication and service capability, serving Minnesota and the upper Midwest.

Where we are

Sales, fabrication, service and training — all ours

Nothing gets handed off to a third party and lost. Our own fabricators, technicians and trainers do the work, in our shop and on your site.

The Sharrow shop floor in Little Canada: a free-standing jib crane over the fabrication bench, with wire rope reels racked along the wall.

Sharrow Lifting Products

Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa — field service across all five, from the metro to the Iron Range

2943 Yorkton Blvd.
Little Canada, MN 55117
(651) 489-1341

Monday–Friday, 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

What we do in-house

  • Sling and wire rope fabrication shop
  • Crane and hoist service department
  • Rigging gear inspection and repair
  • Fall protection inspection and repair
  • Hydraulic service and validation
  • Training facility

Proudly distributing

  • 3M DBI-SALA
  • AMH
  • AeroGo
  • CM
  • Columbus McKinnon
  • Crosby
  • Gorbel
  • Gorbel Tether-Track
  • Harrington
  • Honeywell Miller
  • Lift-All
  • M&W
  • OZ Lifting
  • Peerless
  • Protecta
  • Rigid Lifelines
  • Shur-Loc
  • Spanco Workmate
  • Thern

Member of

  • ACRP
  • AWRF
  • WSTDA
  • AGC
  • MSC

Need a quote, an inspection, or an answer?

Tell us what you're lifting and we'll get you the right solution — usually the same day.

Request a quote(651) 489-1341