If you need a thousand feet of wire pulling rope for your pull, you’ll need a thousand-foot pulling rope, right? Well, not when you use Southwire’s QWIKrope soft shackles to connect two wire pull ropes together. The ability to combine (or separate) wire pulling ropes into a longer rope with the soft shackles gives you more flexibility in the field and reduces the variety of ropes you need on hand. Watch Adam show you how to combine two wire pulling ropes with soft shackles, or check out the guide below.

There are several items that are often overlooked and forgotten when setting up for a wire pull. If one of your workers has to go searching for cardboard and duct tape, a clevis or even the pulling rope itself, you’re losing valuable time. That’s why Van Meter recommends preparing upfront with a wire pulling rope kit. To help you prepare for future wire pulls, here is a checklist with everything you need in your pulling rope kit.