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Re: [TowerTalk] Fulton 2500 winch single or dual speed?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fulton 2500 winch single or dual speed?
From: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 23:57:07 -0400
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On 4/3/2014 12:06 PM, jcjacobsen@q.com wrote:
How do,

Gerald is looking for a new winch for his tower.

Please, be careful that you don't get a winch that has a FREE WHEEL position.
Been there, done that, and had to go to the emergency room to get the 
hide put back on the back of my hand.  It was just a glancing blow that 
peeled the skin off nearly half the back of my hand from knuckles almost 
to the wrist bone.
  Nothing worse than the winch getting in that mode and having the handle 
whipping around at a rapid pace,
I'd say getting hit by it rates right up there.

  not to mention the tower dropping at the same or greater rate. Most 
marine/boat winches are free wheeling.
Mine has a latch, but I was lowering a mast that wasn't terribly heavy 
and had it unhooked. My hand slipped off the handle, but the handle 
stopped pointing straight up. I knew better, but it was stationary. Just 
as I grabbed, it went around once so fast I couldn't see it move!  Had 
it hit square it would have broken a bunch of those small bones.  As it 
is I only have a scar that covers about a third of the back of my left hand.
Those winches can be dangerous and it only takes a moment of 
inattention  to put you in a lot of pain.
73

Roger (K8RI)

73
K9WN Jake
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