Rigger is the person who is specialized in the lifting & moving extremely heavy items often with the help of cranes, derricks and chain hoists. The word rigger derived from the days of sailing ships. Earlier a Rigger identified as a person who worked with rigging to hoist the sails. Before mechanical haulage & cranes, ropes, pulleys & muscles power were available to move heavy objects. Now a day, rigger use shackles, cables, clamps or straps to lift heavy objects. Riggers help to operate machines that move heavy objects like steel plates, bundles of steel road, drilling towers, platforms and other heavy construction equipment that are used to build & take down steel structures.
