Fabricating your own lowering device

[arbogrunt]

...not sure you're supposed to strap it to your thigh, but what the hell!

[High Scale]

Everybody copy's everybody else.

 

That's a fact.

 

I'm sure Ed Hobbs didn't just come out with his device from thin air?

 

I'm pretty sure blocks have been around thousands of years?

 

The wheel has been around a while.

 

It has ALL been done before.

 

The Aliens told me that.

Edited February 12, 2014 by High Scale

[bob]

It's always going to happen but just hope no one gets hurt.

I am sure the manufacturers don't just cobble some bits out of the shed and weld it together.

For me the time and effort just are not worth it

And the piece of mind that it will have been designed and tested.

I am not saying I would not copy anything but I would consider what it is very carefully

[Gary Prentice]

punched the MBS and SWL on it...I've been using in for a couple of decades, I change the belt every few years...lets face it...its not going to break

 

How is the SWL and MBS calculated, as a matter of interest:confused1:

[mistahbenn]

Just saw this winch from a dude in French Polynesia. Looks an awesome place to work!!!

[arbogrunt]

it is calculated by testing it to destruction...or in my case taking it to a boatyard and letting them stamp it up for me. Of course it hasn't got a CE mark. So I never, ever use it...it just sits in the lock up.

[Gary Prentice]

it is calculated by testing it to destruction...or in my case taking it to a boatyard and letting them stamp it up for me. Of course it hasn't got a CE mark. So I never, ever use it...it just sits in the lock up.

 

[geoff]

...not sure you're supposed to strap it to your thigh, but what the hell!

 

Yeh, but that was an easy error to make, the second groundy who mounted the bollard was not at fault, just Felix stood still for a moment too long next to the tree!

[arbogrunt]

sounds about right Geoff, thankfully, he didn't check for squirrels!

[arbogrunt]

Just saw this winch from a dude in French Polynesia. Looks an awesome place to work!!!

 

I'm liking the look of that!