I feel better about that. Thank you for your help. I have about a finger width of clearance once it’s completely spooled.
yikes that's a pain in the ass on flat ground.
I've been fortunate that I've usually had a reasonably long incline to winch up. My last house had a 170' driveway with a 20' elevation gain. Just let the Jeep idle and winch it up the hill while standing in front of it keeping an eye on the rope.
I agree but you have to figure that Warn had to be "safety conscious" when making this clip.
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Dirt Lifestyle has something interesting, but a $260 fairlead is a tough pill to swallow.
Fucking stupid insane price for that which is nothing more than a conventional hawse with a little extra decoration on it. A normal aluminum hawse sells for $50 or under and even Blaine's design that at least does something useful, positioning the hook or Safety Thimble out of the way to improve the approach angle, only goes for $150.
Yeah, but they are made in Idaho, so I guess we can pay triple for it? Heck, even $150 would be a stretch, but I do like the simplicity of the concept and no metal projectiles to contend with.
If you want simplicity and no metal projectiles it gets no simpler than this.
https://www.tacticalrecoveryequipment.com/product/aluminum-hawse-fairlead-standard/
Who needs winch rope? Just keep coupling bow shackles, hooks, and Super Ultra Expert Pro™ thingies into a long chain of connections until it reaches whatever you're trying to recover.
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Sounds like you had the in-out switch in the out direction when you were loading it. The rope needs to feed in/out from the bottom of the drum.It is, which I just read is the incorrect way, but that was the way the spool turned?
I sure did. I got it respooled up properly this morning.
I've seen references to this but don't know the details. Is there a real IP theft story here or did they just copy the main design feature and put a bigger marketing machine behind it?