What are Electric Winches?
Electric winches are most commonly used to pull an automobile, boat, crane, truck, or other piece of equipment from a problematic area. If a car goes off the road and down into a ravine, for example, trucks with electric winches are used to hook the car and pull it back to the road. Electric winches can also be used to tug boats to safety. There have even been rare instances in which electric winches have helped save large animals from tricky holes and pits. Electric winches come in different shapes and sizes. Typically, electric winches include a two-speed engine. A cable is attached to a spool, which is attached to the motor. A gear lever turns the spool in order to release the cable. Once the cables of an electric winch are extended to the vehicle or object in need of towing, the gear levers are pushed in the opposite direction of the object. This causes the spool to wind up. As the spool winds, the cables are pulled back in. This causes the object to be pulled safely to where it be
