From: Bjorn Brandstedt (super_deuce@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2005 - 09:12:33 PST
Just googled the chain, the rating is 6,600 lb.
>From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] Knuckleboom as a winch
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:41:09 -0500
>
>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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