What scares me about using a winch with a remote control is having the remote
break, get stuck, or otherwise fail to stop winding in cable. Then the tower
gets pulled down with you on the top!
Chris
KF7P
On Dec 2, 2015, at 10:16 PM, Ken K6MR wrote:
> Using a small electric winch has a safety advantage over other methods: if
> something gets stuck they will stall rather than break the lifting cable (or
> worse yet, pull the tower over). If you pay attention to the noise it makes
> you can detect a problem almost instantly and stop before something bends or
> breaks.
>
> Ken K6MR
>
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