Abstract: A light-weight, inexpensive lifting device for facilitating the handling of heavy hollow-cored cylindrical objects such, for example, as the hollow supports commonly used with large rolls of paper and the like, comprising: (i) a thin-wall, pre-shaped cup member adapted to be force-fit into one end of the hollow-cored support and having an outwardly flared radial flange with a diameter greater than the inside diameter of the hollow-cored support for engagement with one end of the support; (ii) a relatively thick metallic washer disposed within the base of the cup member; (iii) a saddle-like clip having parallel leg portions extending through the washer and the base of the cup member for securing such elements together; and (iv), an elongate steel strap or the like characterized by its resilient and self-supporting characteristics and formed into a closed loop having one arcuate loop end passing through the cup member and the washer and engaged with the saddle-like clip, and its opposite arcuate loop end normal