Crane Scales are the scales which is used for overhead industrial weighing and are very perfect for tough material handling applications in metal handling centers, shipping decks, warehouses, aviations, foundries and batching facilities. Whereas Hanging scales and balances are usually used either by hand or is suspended from a fixed position. Typical uses include weighing mail bags, fishing, weighing feed sacks or bulk bags. Crane scales are used for larger applications and could be often found in goods or at the ports for off loading of ships. These scales usually have two functions, one is to make available for you the weight of an item, and the other is to make sure operators do not overload the crane or hoist, so that they have a safety function. While these scales are a kind of hanging scale, they are used for much tougher and bigger applications. Hanging scales are lower in capacity and price, whereas the crane scales have capacities up to 10 tones and so are more expensive.