Re: [MV] Knuckleboom as a winch

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2005 - 08:41:09 PST


At 11:35 AM -0500 2/28/05, Bjorn Brandstedt wrote:
>A demonstration of how the knuckleboom and a couple snatch blocks can be used as a rear (or front) winch. Pulling capacity shown is about 8,000 lb.
>
><http://imageevent.com/cranetruck/knuckleboomwinch>

Preatty sneaky. One question, what was the rated capacity of the chain you had holding the snatch block to the rear hitch?

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