Products · Made in our shop
Below-the-Hook & Specialty Lifting Devices
Spreader bars, lifting beams, coil and plate handling, and fully custom devices engineered for a specific load. When standard rigging won't reach, won't balance, or won't protect the part, this is what we build.
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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 we carry
- Lifting beamsFixed, adjustable and low-headroom
- Spreader beamsFixed and telescoping
- Coil liftersC-hooks, grabs and coil tongs
- Plate clampsVertical and horizontal
- Roll and sheet lifters
- Pallet lifters
- Fork truck attachmentsBooms, hooks and beams
- Drum and barrel handling
- Vacuum and magnet lifters
- Custom engineered lifting devices
- Proof-tested and certified assemblies
Custom below-the-hook work starts with your load, your headroom, and your attachment points. We handle design, fabrication, proof testing, and documentation, and the finished device ships with the paperwork your safety department is going to ask for.
AMH lines in this category
- Plate lifting clamps
373 products · 4,496 part numbers
Pick the kind of device
Below-the-hook lifting devices, grouped by what they do. Everything here is a rated lifting device — we inspect and repair them as well as sell them.
Lifting beams
63 products · 1,206 parts
A single hook above, two or more pick points below, and the load kept level. The workhorse of below-the-hook lifting.
Peerless · M&W · Caldwell
Spreader beams
36 products · 1,000 parts
Two slings from the crane to the ends of a beam, so the lift puts compression into the beam instead of squeezing the load.
Peerless · M&W · Caldwell
Coil lifters
32 products · 225 parts
C-hooks, grabs and tongs for handling steel coil by the eye or the outside diameter.
Peerless · M&W · Caldwell
Pallet lifters
23 products · 254 parts
Fork sets that let a crane pick a pallet without a forklift, fixed or adjustable.
Peerless · M&W · Caldwell
Fork truck attachments
32 products · 193 parts
Booms, hooks and beams that turn a lift truck into a crane for the length of one job.
Peerless · M&W · Caldwell
Lifting tongs
12 products · 49 parts
Scissor and bar tongs that grip the load by squeezing it, so the lift is what holds it.
Peerless · M&W · Caldwell
Roll lifters
11 products · 30 parts
Beams, C-hooks and gripping tongs for paper, film and other rolls handled on the core or the body.
Peerless · Caldwell
Sheet lifters
13 products · 104 parts
Below-the-hook devices for handling plate and sheet stock.
Peerless · Caldwell
Lifting hooks
17 products · 272 parts
Purpose-built hooks that go between the crane and the load — not rigging hardware, but the device itself.
M&W · Caldwell
Plate clamps
40 products · 494 parts
Vertical and horizontal clamps that bite the plate and hold harder the heavier it is.
M&W · Renfroe
Beam clamps
15 products · 96 parts
A rated pick point on a structural beam, clamped rather than welded.
M&W · Caldwell · Renfroe
Material baskets
5 products · 17 parts
Crane-rated baskets for moving loose material and tooling around a site.
M&W · Caldwell
Personnel baskets
4 products · 1 parts
Suspended platforms for work a lift can't reach. Their own rules apply — we'll go through them with you.
M&W
Barrel, drum and bucket lifting
18 products · 61 parts
Grabs and cradles for drums and buckets, upright or for pouring.
M&W · Caldwell · Renfroe
Concrete pipe lifting
9 products · 64 parts
Pipe grabs and lifters for precast concrete sections.
M&W · Caldwell
Concrete barrier lifters
3 products · 8 parts
Lifters for jersey barrier and precast barrier sections.
M&W · Caldwell
Container lifting
2 products · 3 parts
Lifting frames and attachments for shipping containers and bulk boxes.
M&W
Bottle lifters
1 product · 5 parts
Cradles for handling gas cylinders safely by crane.
M&W
Load rotators and upenders
9 products · 83 parts
Turn a load end over end while it hangs, instead of setting it down and re-rigging. Caldwell's Posi-Turner line, engineered per application.
Caldwell
Vacuum lifters
10 products · 201 parts
Lift plate, sheet and glass by suction, with nothing clamped to the edge and no mark left on the face.
Caldwell
Remote-releasing hooks
3 products · 16 parts
Release the load without anyone under it or near it. Manual, remote-controlled and extended-capacity Rig-Release hooks.
Caldwell
Construction special applications
12 products · 92 parts
Jobsite lifters that do not fit the usual categories — bucket forks, container assemblies, excavation hooks and the rest.
Caldwell
Construction lifting magnets
3 products · 22 parts
Constant and permanent magnets for jobsite steel handling. For shop and mill magnets see our lifting magnets range.
Caldwell
Don't stop at the purchase
Service and support for below-the-hook & specialty lifting devices
Buying the equipment is the easy part. Keeping it inspected, repaired, and compliant is where we earn the repeat business.
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Wire Rope & Assemblies
Fabricated, swaged, and proof-tested in our own shops
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Lifting Slings
Wire rope, chain, web, and roundsling — made to length
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Rigging Hardware
The stocked components that keep jobs moving
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Cranes & Crane Systems
New systems, modifications, and runway upgrades
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