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JayD · 8th January 2008, 03:30 AM

By the sounds of things, you may have given him a bit of a ride when it broke away?? We use my 4by at times and the winch aswell to pull over a tree where site conditions are right, As it was explained to me by a very smart arb,JM if your reading, With mechanicl advantages,such as the GRCS,with the winching power of these devices they have steped up considerably in hardware but the problem lies after that with human error..their technique does not step up fast enough...and they overload limbs that cannot handle the stress of winching causing break outs..etc..etc.

8th January 2008, 03:30 AM	#16 (permalink)
JayD Veteran Heritage Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,100	Re: conventional figure-8 By the sounds of things, you may have given him a bit of a ride when it broke away?? We use my 4by at times and the winch aswell to pull over a tree where site conditions are right, As it was explained to me by a very smart arb,JM if your reading, With mechanicl advantages,such as the GRCS,with the winching power of these devices they have steped up considerably in hardware but the problem lies after that with human error..their technique does not step up fast enough...and they overload limbs that cannot handle the stress of winching causing break outs..etc..etc. __________________ Free Tree and Green Industry Link Directory