What are the safety considerations which I need to keep in mind while winching?
Never forget to take your leather gloves with you. Handling the cable with bare hands, is quite dangerous, a frayed cable can cut your skin. Getting your fingers caught in the cable as it winds onto the drum is the most common accident that takes place during winching. Always use the remote control cable when winching, and keep every person out of range of the cable. The addition of the following items and accessories will greatly increase your winch’s usefulness – Tree saver straps (never wrap a cable directly round a tree, you will kill the tree and kink your cable), a couple of clevis pins, snatch blocks, a choke chain and of course thick leather gloves. Most of these items are provided with the Milemaker Winch Accessory Kit. A broken winch cable can have enough force in its whiplash to cut through a truck’s roof and windshield A cable that hits a small tree will tear the tree down. A cable that hits a large tree can wrap tightly around a tree so a person behind the tree is not nece
