TM 9-2350-238-10OPERATING CRANE–CONTINUEDTOW WINCH AND WIRE ROPE OPERATIONTow winch wire rope can be pulled to load by 1hand. However, the following proceduresmake it a lot easier.23. Always wear leather gloves(item 31, appx B) when han-dling winch cable. Neverallow cable to run throughhands. Broken wires cancause painful injuries. Do notoperate winch/crane withless than four turns of wirerope on drums. Failure toobserve these warnings couldresult in personnel injuries.. Any kinks, crushed sections,or broken strands are poten-tial weak points and cancause wire rope failure.Frayed, kinked, worn, or cor-roded ropes must be replaced.Rope is unsafe if three brok-en wires are found in onestrand of 6 x 7 rope, sixbroken wires in one strand of6 x 19 rope, or nine brokenwires in one strand of 6 x 37rope.Open tow winch access door and pulltow winch wire rope clevis out throughopening.Pay out a few feet of tow winch wirerope and reeve rope through snatchblock on underside of boom. Refer topage 2-79.Take 5/8-in. (1.59-cm) sheave snatchblock, stowed on left side of cab, and at-tach to load being recovered.4 Disconnect boom winch wire rope fromboom and remove single boom blockfrom wire rope. Refer to page 2-75.5 Pay out boom wire rope to load and pullboom winch wire rope through snatchblock attached to load. Pull boom winchwire rope back and attach to tow winchwire rope.6 Operate boom winch to pay in wire ropeand at same time operate tow winch topay out tow winch wire rope until towwinch wire rope reaches load to berecovered.NOTEThe 3/4-in. (1.91-cm) fiber ropemay be used to supplementboom winch wire rope to reachloads at greater distance.2 - 83
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