Chain Sling, 8 mm x 150 cm Lifting Chains with Hooks, G80 Engine Chain Hoist Lifts, 5 Ton Lifting Sling Chains for Engine Hoist, Engine Lift Chain with 4 Leg Grab Hooks & Adjusters Heavy Duty

Headroom disappears quickly under a low workshop gantry, and a long sling eats what is left. This is the 150 cm version — although the listing never states whether that measures a single leg or the assembled sling, which is the first thing to pin down.

Same chain, shorter reach

Everything about the chain matches the longer version in this range: 8 mm by the title, 5/16 in by the description, four legs, grab hooks and adjusters throughout. Only the length changes, quoted as 150 cm in the title and 5 ft in the description. Short legs pull at a steeper included angle for the same spread across a load, and steeper angles put more tension into each leg — which happens to be exactly the variable this listing never quantifies.

Two capacity figures, no stated basis

The title carries 5 Ton. The supplier's description carries "Maximum Working Capacity: 11,000 lbs". They are worded differently and neither has been converted into the other here. Neither is qualified either: nothing states whether the number applies to a single leg or to the four-leg assembly, nothing distinguishes a working load from a breaking strength, and no included angle is specified. No breaking strength appears anywhere. Take the lower of the two, and get the sling assessed before it takes weight.

Trimming four legs to an awkward load

Every leg has its own adjuster, so the sling shortens one corner at a time. That is how something like a transfer case or a cast manifold — heavy on one side, with lifting points nowhere near symmetrical — comes up level instead of swinging. The chain is manganese steel bearing the G80 mark, the hooks are alloy steel, and the welding is described as fully automatic. G80 stays a supplier grade marking and nothing more. No standard is named on this listing, so nothing here amounts to certification or a test result.

Key features

• 150 cm legs: less chain between hoist hook and load where headroom is tight.
• Four independent adjusters: each corner trimmed on its own to level an uneven load.
• Grab hooks throughout: shorten on a link, nothing extra to thread or lose.
• Chain and hook materials: manganese steel marked G80, with hooks in alloy steel.
• Welded construction: the supplier's term for it is full-automatic welding.

Specifications

• Chain diameter: title 8 mm, description 5/16 in
• Chain length: title 150 cm, description 5 ft
• Is that length one leg or the whole assembly: not stated
• Title capacity: 5 Ton
• Description capacity: "Maximum Working Capacity: 11,000 lbs"
• Neither figure states its basis: working versus breaking, one leg versus four, and included angle are all unspecified
• Breaking strength: nowhere on the listing
• Legs: four, all carrying a grab hook and an adjuster
• Chain: manganese steel, marked G80 by the supplier
• Hooks: alloy steel, as given
• Standard, certification or test named: none

Non-negotiables for overhead lifting

• This lifts. It does not recover. Putting a lifting sling on a snatch, a winch line or a tow applies shock loads it was never built for.
• Look over every link, hook and adjuster before each lift, and take the sling out of service if anything is nicked, cracked, bent, corroded, worn or stretched.
• Raise the load slowly. Shock loading is what breaks chain.
• Nobody underneath, and no load travelling above a person.
• The hook throat takes the load, never the tip. The supplier makes the same point in its own notes.
• Keep the chain straight — no knots, no twists, no wrapping it back through itself.
• Before it goes into service, have someone competent check the assembly against the standard that applies, and repeat that check at the interval the standard requires.

Made for gearbox and engine work where the hoist sits low. Get the length basis and the capacity basis confirmed before you rig it.