Below-the-hook lifting devices and accessories attach to or fit around loads for safe lifting and positioning. Steel clamps and handgrips are used to lift and turn object, such as plates and beams, in multiple directions. Spreader beams and lifting beams keep uneven loads level. Tongs grasp, drag, and lift timber and poles, containers, pipe, and round bars. Bar stock material positioners lift and place bar stock materials. Barrier grabs eliminate the need to drill holes to accommodate chains or slings. They are suitable for brick pack lifting, kerb stone replacement and concrete lintel installations. Lifters are available for industrial fork truck batteries, concrete pipe, manhole sleeves and housings, reels, plate, and beams. Taglines guide or direct crane-lifted loads.