All my experiences with latching hooks have been the latch assembly gets bent up and become worthless and latch assembly has to be removed or constantly repaired... Your experiences may be different...
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The safety police are going to loose their minds...
Good idea and I would do it...
Quick links work great.
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The 'safety police' will not lose their minds... they will applaud it!
It's called Mousing (there is even specific mousing wire available). A standard practice on hooks and shackles to securing the load into the device.
Used it in the Navy, especially during jackstay, kingpost, helicopter and RAS transfers.
After getting off tractor at least 3 time per lift I go tired of hooks that won't stay hooked....
Small hole drilled, a little "bailing wire".... Sometimes its the simple things....
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