First time winch install help
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Back when I was young and dumber I tried to move a 3’ concrete pipe that was in my way. I wrapped one of those hollow round nylon straps with the steel hooks attached. I gave it a big jerk, a hook flew off and landed almost a block away in the middle of a gas station full of cars. I learned a valuable lesson that day that I still use today.
that is a good teaching lesson. I guess my attachments are solid, I’ve bent a few cheesy bumpers by wrapping chain around them..I’ve learned a little since then lol
Yes you need to learn that shit happens and always prepare for it. Frayed rope and suspect chain and cable all get tossed.
You know who doesn't do that? The little chopper they use to ferry loads in from Loon to Rubicon Springs. He has a lift line hung under the chopper that he hooks onto nets full of gear they ferry in. The one they were using when we were up there was easily 1.5" Dyneema with about 200,000 lbs. of breaking strength. The little Hughes 500 probably can't lift more than 1000 lbs per sling load so they were running a silly overkill factor except for one thing. They used a largish common tube thimble to make the eye. They had drug the end of it on the ground so much that the rope was worn all the way down to the edge on both sides of the thimble. Easily more than half the line diameter was gone. Still more that 10 times the safety factor they needed.
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Take it from an old forester; mount the winch on the front and drag logs with a chain (on the rear hitch) and one of these. Easy.
Take it from an old forester; mount the winch on the front and drag logs with a chain (on the rear hitch) and one of these. Easy.
What many don't understand is that for low voltage devices like a non-waterproof 12 volt winch, it can be completely under fresh water or in a torrential all-week downpour and still work fine without it being waterproof. Smittybilt might be pushing that their winch is "waterproof" but that's just to attract those who don't understand it doesn't really need to be waterproof for it to work if it gets soaked. Even with their claim that it's waterproof a Smittybilt winch is still a Shittybilt winch. I wouldn't touch one unless it was strictly for bumper decoration and not intended for regular use.
Where being waterproof would make a difference is with salt or brackish water but it's no big deal for fresh water or rain.
This shows a car completely submerged in a lake with its 12 volt lights on, they'll stay on like that until the battery runs out of power.
That chopper in action, I happened to be at the right place at the right time for this photo...
The best part about that little chopper is getting to ride in it. It has been hotrodded with a larger turbine and converted to run a smaller 5 blade rotor set up to fit in amongst the tree branches easier.
I don't know who was flying it when you saw it but our pilot was Mel. One of his other jobs is working with wildlife tagging. He has a net hung under the chopper, chases down whatever the critter of the day is, drops the net on it, they tag and release.
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I got to do the Rubicon in 2006, when Mark Smith hosted an event that didn't require a driver to have a passenger.
They offered rides in a chopper that was painted in a multi-color configuration. It was a kick and so cool to fly over the trail in 12 minutes.
At that altitude the small lakes and ponds were so crystal clear.
I was in the left rear seat position, strapped in tight and with my digital camera outside the window. I know I took over a hundred pics.
We were heading for a ridge and at the last second swooped up and stopped, did a slow 360* look see and then dropped like a rock.
I remember hearing the pilot in the headphones tell his front seat passenger to get her feet off of the pedals. Her and her husband were hanging on for dear life.
For a couple of seconds all we heard was screaming in headphones.
Later that day, I got to shake his hand and tell him that was one hell of a kick ass ride. And IIRC, he was a Viet-Nam Vet.
Also in one of those ferry trips, he hauled in a load of ice cream.
They offered rides in a chopper that was painted in a multi-color configuration. It was a kick and so cool to fly over the trail in 12 minutes.
At that altitude the small lakes and ponds were so crystal clear.
I was in the left rear seat position, strapped in tight and with my digital camera outside the window. I know I took over a hundred pics.
We were heading for a ridge and at the last second swooped up and stopped, did a slow 360* look see and then dropped like a rock.
I remember hearing the pilot in the headphones tell his front seat passenger to get her feet off of the pedals. Her and her husband were hanging on for dear life.
For a couple of seconds all we heard was screaming in headphones.
Later that day, I got to shake his hand and tell him that was one hell of a kick ass ride. And IIRC, he was a Viet-Nam Vet.
Also in one of those ferry trips, he hauled in a load of ice cream.
Correct, and current on the outside of the wire is for RF, not DC or low freq AC.
Where the F did you learn about skin effect? Are you holding out on us?
Where the F did you learn about skin effect? Are you holding out on us?
I *am* a trained electronics tech... But computers are more my thing. I've dabbled in RF my entire career on and off, but I'm not really an RF guy.
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