With a good heavy pair of gloves, you want to hold the end with the pulling eye (swivel end) and with your other hand, push the open end of the mess gripper towards the swivel end. You can sometimes collapse the open mess end by putting one edge of the wire basket grip against the ends of the cable bundle, again, squeezing it so it compresses together towards the swivel/pulling eye end.
This will allow you to get the wire mess basket grip onto the bundle. Please remember that you might have to get a larger grip to pull multiple cables at once. I've used several individual basket mess grips on each cable and then connected them all together with pulling leads and "add-a-links".
The key to makiing it easier to pull multiple wires/cables through conduit, is to stagger the cables/wires, so they're not all cut and bundled at one end. Depending on the cable size (diameter) you make want to "space" them out by a foot or more, to make it easier to pull thru corners and pull elbows or boxes, etc., in the pulling run.
If it is a maximum diameter bundle for the size of the conduit that you're pulling the cable/wire through. Get some pulling lube to make it even easier to get the pull done in one attempt. There's nothing more frustrating than getting part way through the pull and getting the wire bundle "stuck" and having to pull it all out and start over.
Here's a link to a guide on pulling grips (by Klein) which contains the same info on using wire mess grips, as the Greenlee ones you have.
Dave, Just had a "childhood flashback!" remember those bamboo woven Chineese finger cuffs? A wire mesh basket is he same thing, just push the ends (or one end as I described) together and the mess will open up, just like those kids toys we had when we were young.
All the best! VtToolmanDave, Just had a "childhood flashback!" remember those bamboo woven Chineese finger cuffs? A wire mesh basket is he same thing, just push the ends (or one end as I described) together and the mess will open up, just like those kids toys we had when we were young.
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Hello Dave,
With a good heavy pair of gloves, you want to hold the end with the pulling eye (swivel end) and with your other hand, push the open end of the mess gripper towards the swivel end. You can sometimes collapse the open mess end by putting one edge of the wire basket grip against the ends of the cable bundle, again, squeezing it so it compresses together towards the swivel/pulling eye end.
This will allow you to get the wire mess basket grip onto the bundle. Please remember that you might have to get a larger grip to pull multiple cables at once. I've used several individual basket mess grips on each cable and then connected them all together with pulling leads and "add-a-links".
The key to makiing it easier to pull multiple wires/cables through conduit, is to stagger the cables/wires, so they're not all cut and bundled at one end. Depending on the cable size (diameter) you make want to "space" them out by a foot or more, to make it easier to pull thru corners and pull elbows or boxes, etc., in the pulling run.
If it is a maximum diameter bundle for the size of the conduit that you're pulling the cable/wire through. Get some pulling lube to make it even easier to get the pull done in one attempt. There's nothing more frustrating than getting part way through the pull and getting the wire bundle "stuck" and having to pull it all out and start over.
Here's a link to a guide on pulling grips (by Klein) which contains the same info on using wire mess grips, as the Greenlee ones you have.
http://www.kleintools.com/ToolCatalog/PDFs/18_Wire_Pulling.pdf
The info is on the last pages of the brochure (pages 18-23 of the pdf) Klein pages #216 -221
I hope you find this Very Helpful and best regards!
Dave, Just had a "childhood flashback!" remember those bamboo woven Chineese finger cuffs? A wire mesh basket is he same thing, just push the ends (or one end as I described) together and the mess will open up, just like those kids toys we had when we were young.
All the best! VtToolman