While winching out a M5 Stuart...one of the cables on a 50 ton wrecker,
played out around 100 yards.....through a snatch block, let go around 10
feet in the air...very impressive noise . The snatch block was sent sailing
around 20 yards..and the trees in the path of the cable were pretty torn
up....ended a less than wonderful day.......
Jon
At 07:00 AM 6/1/01 -0400, MVTrucker@aol.com wrote:
>Yep, winching can be dangerous. Brings to mind the tug boat captain
>that had his bridge knocked off by a snapped cable on the barge he was
>towing.
>Joe Young
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