Synthetic winch rope slipping
Re: Synthetic winch rope slipping
Above is close but not quite. You need to fix the end of the rope to the drum. It is not designed to take the load but by anchoring the rope and then adding a few wraps it will tigthen down on the drum, without it it will slip.
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Re: Synthetic winch rope slipping
meatc wrote:Above is close but not quite. You need to fix the end of the rope to the drum. It is not designed to take the load but by anchoring the rope and then adding a few wraps it will tigthen down on the drum, without it it will slip.
I've ripped out one of those little anchor bolts before, the thread is only about 3mm deep on my cheap runva.
I have cranked up the knot round the drum with a crow bar so it's f##ken tight, will persevere with that and if I have future issues I'll have to look at threading a big bolt into the face of the drum like someone mentioned earlier in the thread.
I have had a few years and a lot of winching without any slipping issues (till now) and my rope has always just been tied round the drum, and now that I've really roughed up the drum I can't see it giving me any issues...... Time wil tell I guess.