avalancher
Arboristsite Raconteur
There are skidding tongs and lifting tongs. Each is different by the angle of the points. Plus the lifting tongs are heavier. (And more expensive.)
Just go to Bailey's http://www.baileysonline.com/itemdetail.asp?item=17996L&catID= and check them out. They are certified for overhead lifting.
Right.They are different,but boy are you paying for that "certified" for lifting.Five hundred bucks!Ill stick to my skidding tongs and stay out from under it.So far they have never dropped anything on my melon.