I have recently stumbled upon an excellent technical article regarding the safe selection and use of recovery gear, including winches. Its quite prescriptive, most sourced from industry manuals but an interesting read:


Edit: initial link removed, see post below for improved article.

 

Because I hate reading such a great source of info on the web only I decided to convert the whole book to pdf. I left everything original so the author will get appropriate credit.

The links in the pdf also work. It is a very good read.

Winching pdf

 

Thanks, Flyer. Excellent work. Its a 1.1MB pdf for those interested.

 

Yeah, I suggest just saving it to your harddrive.

 

Ya a buddy showed me this article. Good Stuff!

 

Very Interesting, Thank You for posting...

 

Glad I read this...don't have a winch, yet, but will soon and this helps for a newbie.

Amazing how commonsense some of the stuff is, yet people still ignore it.

 

Very interesting read Thanks for posting

 

Thanks for the share it is better to learn by reading than learn by being a nubi.

 

Wow that was a very indepth amount of knowledge. Thanks for posting.