Automatically opens when lowered onto head of rail.
Built with safety in mind and designed to handle today's long lengths of rail.
Cast from high strength alloy steel.
Rated for lifting or dragging rail.
After assembly each tong is proof tested to 35,000 lbs (2 1/2 times the rating). The average vertical destruction force required to break the rail tong is well over 200,000 lbs.
