Posted by Ed Tavernier on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 2:06AM :
In Reply to: winch questions posted by ruidosoretiree on Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 10:36PM :
At this past years PW Rally in Iowa, one of the more knowledgeable guys was winching a downed tree up a slope for the "Weenie roast"; His truck was properly dead-manned to a tree, and was carefully winching uphill a 30 foot 20" diameter Hickory tree. Unfortunately everyone was watching the tree slowly move uphill and not the spool.....BOOM the right side of the spool let loose.
My son and I were 20 feet away to the side, but there were several people very close to the line. No one was hurt, but many were lucky!
Eddie