New Disco on Top Gear

J Clarkson esq seems to like it.



bad recovery practices though holding the winch rope while winching tut tut

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:58:16 GMT, "Mike Jones"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>J Clarkson esq seems to like it.
>
>
>
>bad recovery practices though holding the winch rope while winching tut tut
>
Whist on the off road course at Abingon the other day we watched
someone being winched out of the bog hole. The guy put a tabard
looking thing over the winch wire at about the middle .. I thought
this might be something to do with stopping the wire lashing about if
it broke?

All the best ..

T i m

Mike Jones wrote:
>
> J Clarkson esq seems to like it.
>
> bad recovery practices though holding the winch rope while winching tut tut

Good fun, though. "Let's drive it up a vertical cliff and see how far it
goes..."

And blimey, didn't Lumley turn out to be a bit of a petrolhead, eh?

<snip>
> And blimey, didn't Lumley turn out to be a bit of a petrolhead, eh?

just reaffirming her place as posh totty of choice

Si

On or around Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:40:28 -0000, "Si K"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

><snip>
>> And blimey, didn't Lumley turn out to be a bit of a petrolhead, eh?
>
>just reaffirming her place as posh totty of choice
>
indeed.

In <[email protected]> T i m wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:58:16 GMT, "Mike Jones"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>J Clarkson esq seems to like it.
>>
>>
>>
>>bad recovery practices though holding the winch rope while winching
>>tut tut
> Whist on the off road course at Abingon the other day we watched
> someone being winched out of the bog hole. The guy put a tabard
> looking thing over the winch wire at about the middle .. I thought
> this might be something to do with stopping the wire lashing about if
> it broke?

It's known as a winch sail or winch damper. It's effect is probably more
psychological than practical. When a wire winch rope breaks the damper
is supposed to slow the rope down and reduce the risk of serious damage
to anyone unfortunate enough to stand in it's way. A good quality one is
normally quite heavy with weights sewn into it and has a large surface
area to increase wind resistance. I am fortunate enough to say I've not
seen a wire rope break first hand and tend to change my wire winch rope (
rear winch) as soon as there are any signs of fish hooks (single wire
breakages that stick out from the rope and will cut your hand open if
you're not wearing gloves) or kinks.

I use Plasma (synthetic rope) on the front winch which I have snapped
once in 3 years of use. It went with a bang but more or less just
dropped to the ground (no sail), much to the relief of my winch monkey
at the time who was stood about 6 feet from it. I usually don't bother
with a sail with plasma rope unless the competition regs demand it. If
it wasn't for the problems with abrasion for the rear winch I'd run
Plasma on the rear too.

cheers

Dave W.
http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/

Mike Jones wrote:

>J Clarkson esq seems to like it.
>
>
>
>bad recovery practices though holding the winch rope while winching tut tut
>
>
>
>
Seem to remember a picture in LRO many years ago of an RRC with an
interesting 'peak' to the top of the windscreen frame, no windscreen and
no top tailgate screen. It had, AFAICR, been attempting to recover some
other vehicle using the tow hitch as an attachment point. Entire hitch
detached from stuck vehicle and travelled right through RRC much to the
surprise, and doubtless relief, of RRC driver. ;-)

Richard


--
Real email address is RJS at BIGFOOT dot COM

The information contained in this post
may not be published in, or used by

http://www.diyprojects.info