Thanks Rojie for these daily prompts!
“What’s a small w (win) from this week that deserves celebrating?”
Not this week but I’ve been meaning to get a post in for Rojie’s prompts. I was doing fence demolition this month and one of the tougher instances of it is when you have to take material out of a tight space and the wires have been sunk into the ground.
The suspended tool you see is colloquially referred to as a come-along and how it works is that there are two hooks, one attached to the main lever gear and another hook attached to a cable that can be extended out.
The idea is that once all hooks are engaged, you use the gear lever as mechanical leverage to pull whatever the cable hook is attached to towards you – hence “come along”.
This is useful for stuck vehicles in the mud (my unit is rated at 5 U.S. tons) or for suspending a heavy item straight. The leverage drastically reduces how much force you have to use in order to pull something.
As great as this tool is and the victory it afforded me in time/effort saved, I know there’s going to be a time when I won’t have the kind of strength to use just a simple gear lever. I have to start thinking about putting a winch on my work vehicle. This is a good example:
Or on one of those mini-rovers I’ve got my eye on like a Can-Am Defender
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