Alright guys today what we're gonna do is give you a couple tips on winching
how to do a double on pool and how to get the most power out of your winch the
other night on live talk Tuesday and even live talk Thursday when we covered
winching a lot of you had questions you message me and said hey listen I didn't
understand what you were talking about on the show I'm more of a hands-on kind of
guy so here we go we are going to show you hands on how this works first of all
what I've already done is I pulled the line out for our AXON 45-RC now
the AXON 45-RC is a great winch but it is a short drum winch meaning
this drum is very very short and the frame on it is very short and
what you can see right here what I've already done is I pulled it out to where
I have five or six wraps on the drum now what this means is this is where we're
going to get our maximum power out of the winch
now with this winch only having 27 foot of synthetic rope you're not going to
get a whole lot out of it so what we're going to do for this demonstration is
we're going to use a WARN synthetic 50 foot extension we're going to go up to
that tree we're going to double on Pull and bring it back and show you exactly
what we're talking about when we say double line Pull
this is a a WARN synthetic 50-foot extension I would recommend you carry
one of these no matter how long your winch line is because you just never
know when you're gonna need it sometimes you get in a position or a
situation where you need more rope or more line and this is exactly where it's
gonna come in handy take our extension here 50-foot extension will just clip it
on like that I would say that you would definitely be in your best interest to
take a accessory kit with you and have the 50-foot extension and all this stuff
I would say if you have a winch you definitely need to take his stuff with
you you never know when you're gonna use it and some people might say well I'm
never gonna use that believe me I use it a lot so I'm glad there's been several
times where it's come in very handy so what we'll do is we'll take our tree trunk
protector around the tree here and a key to this here is you want to make sure
you do it like this you don't want to loop it through and choke the tree out
because then you'll kill that tree that's the whole point of a tree trunk
protector and another thing you never ever ever want to do is take your winch
line like say if this had a hook on and bring it around and hook it to itself so
it's on a tree like that that's not good on your line your wire rope synthetic
rope whatever you have and it's definitely going to kill that tree
so you don't want to do that you don't want to hook your lawn back to itself
what we have here is a snatch block and this is a WARN epic snatch block and
all you'll do is you'll take your synthetic rope or your wire rope and
you'll put it in there like that so it's like that and when you pull it's gonna
it's going to pull inside that snatch block like that and it's going to be a
pulley so then what you'll do is you'll put it on your shackle here and you'll
take this and put it in there fasten it in and what you'll do is take this in to
where it touches where it's tight and then
back it off a half turn another thing you want to remember is you want to
check the tree before you hook up to it because you don't want to hook up to a
dead tree you know I've already seen guys hook up to a dead tree and they
start winching and it falls over well you got to be careful with that too
because you know that could end up hurting somebody big-time so make sure
you're hooking up to the base of a really good tree that is not going to
fall over so now we've got our 50-foot extension we've got a tree trunk
protector on there
this is a WARN bumper on the front of our maverick trail and we got two shackle
points on the front of this so what we'll do is we'll put this on here and
you just put that in there like that tighten it up back it off a half turn
and there you go all right guys just to recap we're doing a double line pull
here and we pulled our line out off of our winch about five to six wraps this
gives us maximum pulling power on our winch and by going up to the snatch
block and coming back to the machine that's a double line pool and we've now
doubled our winches pulling power so there's a lot of stuff to take into
consideration when you're doing this one of those is to make sure that you put a
line dampener on here you want to make sure that whenever your winch and you
have a line dampener even though this is not wire rope and it doesn't retain the
energy that wire rope does if this should happen to break there's still a
hook on the end of that you don't want it flying and hurting somebody so always
use a line dampener and another thing is you want to make sure you keep everybody
out of the winching zone sometimes we'll pull up and there'll be somebody there
winching and there's ten guys all up in the winching zone one guy standing
across that waving them you know go ahead go ahead you know I mean that is
the worst thing in the world you can do stay out of the winching zone make sure
everybody stays safe and I hope these tips helped you out and if you got any
comments ideas suggestions feel free to put them below and hope we helped you
out and feel free to tell us how you like to do a double on pull