Yeah, I didn't say it went well. I broke about a hundred feet off the end of my speedy 500 foot synthetic line, which left the tree, which had been mostly cut, standing there leaning towards the shop. I had to quickly string together some straps, get the wife in the truck to put some tension on it, while I deepened the cut a bit.
It was a total goat rope. I was too busy trying to not get anyone hurt, or destroy my shop to shoot any video.
On a related note, I'm not exactly Sure why the line broke, unless that winch is putting out way more than it's rating, in which case I need to reconsider my line choice and step up to 7/16 or 1/2 synthetic.
lol which winch are you speaking of? Military or Civilian?
- military PTO winch on FMTV is rated (I believe) on
OUTER most winding on the winch's spool. And it is a heck a lot of wire cable on them so that outer layer creates a very large pulley compared to the size it would be if you spooled out all the cable (leaving a single layer on the spool)
- civilian winches are rated by the inner most /
LAST winding on the winch's spool after its been pulled out to I think 3 raps on the spool.
Last winding force comes off a smaller pulley in essence; thus it is a higher force potential.... a pretty larger number compared to the
out most winding / in essence a larger pulley ... this large figure looks cooler to the buyer and likely why civilian winches are rated that way. IMHO it's a bit more informative to a winch user anyway.. guess it matters how you do the math in your head.
-On military winches what you in net result have is the pull potential force figure goes up higher
beyond the rating the less on your spool you have, prior to start the winch job.
-On civilian winches it is opposite .... the less you have on the spool prior to starting the winch job.......
the closer you get to its rating..... the more you have on the spool when you start...the
further below the rating you are.
IMHO your best bet when replacement metal winch line with synthetic rope on a military winch is to get info from a rigging rating chart based on the size and type steel wire cable that was on winch from factory....... Don't go by the winch rating. So if the wire cable is rated up to 50,000 based on its 7/8 inch size (that's a guess..... I dont recall) then use synthetic rope with same rating.