I used to work on overhead bridge cranes, replaced a few wire ropes in my day. Yep. Oh you should SEE the fat ropes reaved 96 part on main hoist of a 900 Ton hot pot melt bay class F Ladle crane at a large busy steel mill! I mean in-person. Where you feel the heat and you're breathing the filth. The life of some wire rope isn't spent in glamorous pristine conditions, no. The load spreader assembly is bigger than most people's house. Big motors, big gearboxes, big brakes, big bottom block, big hooks - REALLY cool stuff.