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Ive heard about using the Simpson Winch for pulling “crab pots”. Whats different about these winches?

April 26, 2017different heard pulling Simpson winch winches

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Ive heard about using the Simpson Winch for pulling “crab pots”. Whats different about these winches?

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Crab Pot winches have a different gearing ratio that has twice the line speed with 1/2 the rated pull (as crab pots don’t weigh that much). This puts the line speed at a good rate for efficiently pulling pots…these are difficult to get and sometimes take months of lead time.