I like some of the features the Platinum offers I just wish it came with mechanical backups available. The Axon Atv winches offer actual an actual load indicator and overload protection which I would like to see integrated into the full size winches.
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I like some of the features the Platinum offers I just wish it came with mechanical backups available. The Axon Atv winches offer actual an actual load indicator and overload protection which I would like to see integrated into the full size winches.
Yep the proverbial downward spiral of DC electric motors. The old Wapsa motors used to send up smoke signals and the BIC motors just give all they can and then just give up. The current motors seem to fall somewhere in the middle.
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Yeah, the mechanics that have to fix it
The backordered for 30 minutes TRE snatch-block was delivered today. 2.33 pounds. 2.68 pounds with the pouch (which I don't carry on the rig - so there's .35 pounds saved. 
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The outside of the wheel is not black, it's gray - although the pic makes it look a bit on the blue side. The hub is black. Is that good news, or bad?
Here it is next to my old 6 pound Warn unit - made for cable. Off to the tow-pig it goes - in its new pouch. Now it weighs 6.35 pounds.
).The outside of the wheel is not black, it's gray - although the pic makes it look a bit on the blue side. The hub is black. Is that good news, or bad?
Here it is next to my old 6 pound Warn unit - made for cable. Off to the tow-pig it goes - in its new pouch. Now it weighs 6.35 pounds.
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But then again, since this is on the front bumper of a Jeep, is this a winch or a wench?
A winch is bumper jewelry, a wench gets jewelry, although it appears this wench would settle for dollar bills.
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The backordered for 30 minutes TRE snatch-block was delivered today. 2.33 pounds. 2.68 pounds with the pouch (which I don't carry on the rig - so there's .35 pounds saved.
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The outside of the wheel is not black, it's gray - although the pic makes it look a bit on the blue side. The hub is black. Is that good news, or bad?
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Here it is next to my old 6 pound Warn unit - made for cable. Off to the tow-pig it goes - in its new pouch. Now it weighs 6.35 pounds.
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Go winch stuff for us and give us an update if the gray is good or bad.
Looks a whole bunch more like a windlass to me.
Winch vs hoist round 2! Windlass is for lifting, so you'll see an anchor windlass on a boat. Winches are for handling sheets (ropes that control sails).
https://www.amazon.com/Harken-Winch-Radial-Self-Tailing-Aluminum/dp/B00UAMV5O8/?tag=wranglerorg-20
I always thought the old pto capstan winches were pretty cool.
The problem with being a cut and dried enginerd is you miss the punny stuff.
Sailboat is wind driven and there is a lass there on a winch, thus, windlass.
In the oil field, they call that style of hoist, a cat head. They have mangled more than a few operators.