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I've done the sideway things once myself. Was travelling with a 28 foot travel trailer behind me going up a skinny narrow mountain road. One of the dumber things I've done no doubt, but everybody and their mother and brother telling me not to do it that it couldn't be done was nothing but motivation to make me want to do it more! Plus I like pushing my boundaries. My kids own a house way up high at the very top and I was going to stay with them for a few weeks so to me there was no option. After making it 15 some odd miles up and through some very tricky terrain with loops and turns and tight curves I made it all the way until the last turn into their driveway! It was just too long and the trailer slid into a ditch!
It was the one and only time I ever used my M12000! Pulled the cable all the way out and then backwards from the roller fair lead while walking out at a 45° angle about 50', put up a snatch block and connected it with the trailer about midway.
Worked like a charm and yanked the entire thing right out.... and just about the time it was freed up my cable snapped and took off at 1,000,000 miles an hour! Of course I was already preparing for such an event in fact every time I have ever winched in my life I am preparing for the cable to snap, so all safety precautions were put in place.
To this day people underestimate the force of a cable snapping Under Pressure and put themselves in a life and death situation without thinking!
I saw a video once of a big truck in Russia that had a C channel welded from the front to the back for the sole purpose of having a place to put the cable while winching backwards. I'm still dying to do that one day but it was easier to me to put on a rear winch lol,
It was the one and only time I ever used my M12000! Pulled the cable all the way out and then backwards from the roller fair lead while walking out at a 45° angle about 50', put up a snatch block and connected it with the trailer about midway.
Worked like a charm and yanked the entire thing right out.... and just about the time it was freed up my cable snapped and took off at 1,000,000 miles an hour! Of course I was already preparing for such an event in fact every time I have ever winched in my life I am preparing for the cable to snap, so all safety precautions were put in place.
To this day people underestimate the force of a cable snapping Under Pressure and put themselves in a life and death situation without thinking!
I saw a video once of a big truck in Russia that had a C channel welded from the front to the back for the sole purpose of having a place to put the cable while winching backwards. I'm still dying to do that one day but it was easier to me to put on a rear winch lol,
