Manual for MULTI Winch 3000 & 5000
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- A personnel that uses the winch has to convince that nobody is in danger. Safety
area (100 m fro the winch) has to be marked with forbidding and reference boards.
- It is forbidden to be on the power area of the tensioned wire. It is also forbidden to
drive on the moving log or guiding the log. It is forbidden to touch tensioned wire
when it runs into the machine.
- The size of pulled logs has to be fitted to the conditions like landscape, topography,
and capacity of the winch, coupling instruments, weather.
- While hooking logs, convince that the hooking devices are fixed. Logs may not go off.
- Check pulling wire and hooking chains. Remove defects immediately. Damaged wire
cannot be used. Renew wire timely. While checking the wire turn your attention to
following aspects: corrosion, changes of the shape, frictions, breakings of the fibre.
- At renewing of the hooking devices following has to be followed: wire’s or chain’s tear
resistance has to be at least 2 times bigger than the winch’s maximum traction.
- Wire and hooking devices may not be dragged on the ground while driving.
- Serving personnel has to use precautionary measures.
- Do not use winch as the plough, the construction is not meant for that.