International Organization for Standardization

Cranes — Wire ropes — Care and maintenance, inspection and discard - Fourth Edition
 N 4309

Annotation

This International Standard establishes general principles for the care and maintenance, and inspection and discard of steel wire ropes used on cranes and hoists.

This International Standard is applicable to those ropes used on the following types of cranes, the majority of which are defined in ISO 4306-1:

a) cable and portal cable cranes;

b) cantilever cranes (pillar jib, wall or walking);

c) deck cranes;

d) derrick and guy derrick cranes;

e) derrick cranes with rigid bracing;

f) floating cranes;

g) mobile cranes;

h) overhead travelling cranes;

i) portal or semi-portal bridge cranes;

j) portal or semi-portal cranes;

k) railway cranes;

l) tower cranes;

m) offshore cranes, i.e. cranes mounted on a fixed structure supported by the sea bed or on a floating unit supported by buoyancy forces.

This International Standard applies to rope on cranes used for hook, grabbing, magnet, ladle, excavator or stacking duties, whether operated manually, electrically or hydraulically.