Archive for the ‘Winch Safety’ Category
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
If you want to get the most out of your 12V winch, you need to make sure that whenever you’re planning on using it you bring out some add-ons or accessories with you. The use of some of these will allow the winch to pull heavier objects, some will make ...
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
A 12V trailer winch works great for pulling your boat out of the water and onto your trailer. If you’ve got a big boat, it’s almost a necessity to have one, but even if you only have a smaller boat, an electric winch can save you the backbreaking labor or ...
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
One thing that you can do to make your 12V winch safer is to replace your steel winch cable with synthetic winch rope. There are a few reasons for this, but the main reason is that if the winch cable does break, a synthetic rope will not recoil and snap ...
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