ratty
I'm not special I'm limited edition
feck me 800ft!! how longs your winch wire?
do you carry enough motorway barriers and timber to cover the 800ft?
The cable on my winch is 150ft. I have 3 more in my locker. I then have 2 x 75ft 15 ton strops, 1 ex military 100ft 10 ton strop, then a variety of other strops, chains, straps etc. I think my record line pull was at about 925ft.
I carry approx 30 pieces of timber. I don't carry motorway barriers. They just happen to run along the edge of motorways. If you are using a winch cable down a motorway embankment you need to stop trhe cable cutting the barrier and the barrier cutting the cable. Thats easy when on a single line pull. By the time you get to double, triple or quadruple line pulls it takes a lot of work to keep everything protected.
If winching a vehicle up a cliff you can't park on the cliff edge for access and safety reasons. so you will need protction for the last metre or so of the cliff edge plus anywhere that juts out while you're at it.