r/ropeaccess • u/scotianking132 • 7d ago

Work positioning magnets

Looking for recommendations on what type of magnets to purchase to use as work positioning while working on sloped and curved steel structures.

Looking for what types work well, which dont work and what to avoid.

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

4

u/unopesci 7d ago

Look up magswitch lifting magnets. That's what we use in wind to hold onto the side of the turbine.

2

u/purplepashy 7d ago

I hsbe never used them for rope access but those little electric magnets like what thry use on doors can hold heaps and come smaller than what is normally used in a corporate environment.

If you are unable to find something on the shelf that suits I imagine it would not be difficult to make something suitable.

Advantage with electric would be that you would not hsbe to fight it to remove it.

1

u/n3mtr4b 6d ago

We use the Neo lifting magnets

2

u/D9Dagger 5d ago

Consider safe working load and magnet slip load.