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Winch line: Steel vs synthetic
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<blockquote data-quote="Travis1" data-source="post: 1010450" data-attributes="member: 16253"><p>I should have said - "Rigged properly it is not likely that cable will recoil". Won't was too strong of a word.</p><p></p><p>In the breaks I have seen, read about, or heard about that HAVE recoiled; they all had one thing in common. Improper rigging. Either pulling the cable against the fairlead at a sharp angle from the winch, attaching to a weak point on a vehicle and actually having that break off, using a d-ring wrong, using too small of a d-ring of a load, etc.</p><p></p><p>If the cable was pulled straight from one vehicle to another or a tree, AND it was the cable that broke, the cable just dropped to the ground.</p><p></p><p>Now consider how long winch cable has been used - how many stories exist that YOU PERSONALLY know of in which the cable has broken, whipped around and mamed someone? How many where the cable broke and did nothing? Compared to how many times cable is used and abused where nothing happened? And how many stories do you know of that you heard 2nd or 3rd hand?</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is; there is a lot of unsubstantiated hype about the "safety" of synthetic line and how cable "will kill or mame you".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travis1, post: 1010450, member: 16253"] I should have said - "Rigged properly it is not likely that cable will recoil". Won't was too strong of a word. In the breaks I have seen, read about, or heard about that HAVE recoiled; they all had one thing in common. Improper rigging. Either pulling the cable against the fairlead at a sharp angle from the winch, attaching to a weak point on a vehicle and actually having that break off, using a d-ring wrong, using too small of a d-ring of a load, etc. If the cable was pulled straight from one vehicle to another or a tree, AND it was the cable that broke, the cable just dropped to the ground. Now consider how long winch cable has been used - how many stories exist that YOU PERSONALLY know of in which the cable has broken, whipped around and mamed someone? How many where the cable broke and did nothing? Compared to how many times cable is used and abused where nothing happened? And how many stories do you know of that you heard 2nd or 3rd hand? The bottom line is; there is a lot of unsubstantiated hype about the "safety" of synthetic line and how cable "will kill or mame you". [/QUOTE]
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