TM 9-2350-238-10OPERATING CRANE–CONTINUEDTOW WINCH AND WIRE ROPE OPERATION–CONTINUEDl 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 injuries to personnel.l Any kinks, crushed sections,or broken strands are poten-tial weak points and cancause wire rope failure.Frayed, kinked, worn, or cor-single boom block, and attach to boom.Refer to page 2-75.8 Install level wind on tow winch wirerope. Refer to page 2-80.9 Attach tow winch wire rope to load tobe recovered. Operate tow winch to pullin load.RECOVERY OPERATIONEvery recovery operation will present differentconditions and circumstances. Refer to FM20-22 for vehicle recovery operations. Thefollowing procedures apply to operation ofM578 recovery vehicle to accomplish therecovery mission.VEHICLE OPERATIONroded ropes must be replaced.Rope is unsafe if three brok-1en 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 372rope.7 Disconnect boom winch wire rope fromtow winch wire rope. Remove snatch3block from load and stow on cab. Pay inboom winch wire rope, reeve throughDrive vehicle as close to load to berecovered and on as level ground aspossible. Position vehicle with rear ofvehicle toward load to be moved.Actuate hydraulic system. Refer to page2-67. Refer to load rating capacities in-struction plate for hoisting and towwinching capacities information. Refer topage 2-74.Emplace spade, if required, to increasewinching capacity. Refer to page 2-69.2-84
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