Re: [TowerTalk] Anyone Using a Fulton KW3000 Winch with Powerful 1/2 inch Pistol Drill for tower tilting ?

["Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>]

Al Williams wrote:
> cool off but I wonder if that is necessary.  Is the load on the brake
> winch
> less now that I have four pulleys instead of two in the cabling system so
> that it won't heat up as much?
>
> k7puc

Instead of counting pulleys, count the number of cables
supporting the load.  If there are N cables, the load on the
cable is 1/N of the total pull.

Rick N6RK

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