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Originally Posted by evelyn
Our blocks are around 500 pounds. We put a plastis 3 inch pipe in the center to put the chain through. If you use an eye bolt when it rots you have a solid block that you cannot get a chain on.
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Since everything corrodes eventually a better way to go is put a 1" pipe in the block (when made) and put a long eyebolt through it that you secure with washer, nut and heavy brass cotter pin to keep nut from running off. Attach chain to shackle and then to the eye. This accomplishes a few thing; the corrosion will appear on the eye itself first due to the rubbing of the shackle. The eyebolt will rotate in the pipe keeping the chain from kinking. Replacement is easy when it does wear out