Re: [MV] wicked winch of the north

From: ken uhrick (kuhrick@home.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 14:18:54 PDT


i hope no one was hirt

At 07:02 AM 6/1/2001 -0500, Jon Shoop wrote:
>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
if some one was hirt it would have been a far bader day i think



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