They had to send an expert to explain it!

Fancy tools that make our lives easier get us excited. Sean Cogan, the director of Safety and Rescue at Harken, brought us some slick capstan winches to test. Of course, we pulled them till they broke. Now we carry Harken winches in our store. https://hownot2.com/collections/harken The Harken winches can be powered by an included crank handle, but Harken makes an adapter that allows them to be powered by a drill. The gearing blew our minds a little bit. Turn the handle one way and the load moves; turn it the other way and it moves way faster. We took apart the winch to examine all the gears while Sean explained how they function. To test an edge case scenario, we put 6mm cord in the winch and cranked. Even Sean was surprised when he applied 5.93 kN to the skinny cord. Not only is that more than the working load of the winch, but the minimum approved rope diameter is 9mm. When we tested it till failure with an 11mm rope, the rope failed at 32 kN. The unit still seemed to work until we wound some 10mm HMPE on it and pulled it to 34 kN, when the capstan separated from the rigging plate. On our drop test tree, Sean demonstrated how fast the winch can pull in 2nd gear. We were shocked and had to do more testing. We were able to pull an unloaded pallet at almost 10 mph. Way too fast for anything except spooling your rope into a bag. Make sure to watch till the end to see us destroy the mounting plate. https://hownot2.com/collections/harken 👉 Learn and SHOP at https://www.hownot2.com/ 👉 Best EMAILS on Earth: https://www.hownot2.com/signup 👉 10% off ROCKY TALKIE by clicking https://www.hownot2.com/rocky