[TowerTalk] Brake Winches

[Dave Hachadorian]

On my Dutton-Lainson B1200 brake winch, if you are below minimum 
load, the handle actually unscrews and comes off in your hand. 
Since this is obviously not a good thing to do, just apply a 
little tugging force on the cable, or pull on a tag line to get 
it all started.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ


-----Original Message----- 
From: Wilson
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 8:10 AM
To: towertalk
Subject: [TowerTalk] Brake Winches

Would someone please explain how brake winches work?
I want to use one as a tilt winch on a 40’ Rohn 25G tower.
The tower is bracketed to my chimney and the tilt load obviously 
drops to nil as the tower gets to vertical.
So what happens when the load gets below the minimum’ value in 
the spec’s??
Wilson
W4BOH
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