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Originally Posted by masraum
I did a google search, and based on google images, they look damn near the same.
Then I found this.
Grab hook: Designed to “grab” to keep a chain from slipping off the hook.
Slip hook: Generally had a wider throat than grab hooks and sometimes has a latch design to keep an attached object in its place.
So, it doesn't sound like there's much difference.
Can you find or take pics showing what you'd consider to be the major difference?
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On reflection, my rant was a bit harsh on the chain thing. It may be a bit of LWJ's comment that we do stuff and we know how to get things done. When I grew up we moved things around the farm with chains and we
knew this stuff. A slip hook makes a noose of the chain. You throw it around a log or bundle of fence posts and hook it over the working end, pull the working end, and the chain tightens around the load.
If you use a grab hook and hook it on the 14th link from the end (for example) it stays on the 14th link from the end and never tightens.
I guess I wouldn't expect a random kid on the street to know stuff like this. But if you work at a store that sells it - it's like working in a sporting goods store and not knowing the difference between a catcher's mitt and a first baseman's glove.