Friday, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:09
Saharaman,
I agree with someone's query about 30 degrees, looks a lot less to me, do you have a schoolkid's protractor with which to measure the angle at the top of the power wires (which when you subtract from 90 will give the angle).
But, in any case as someone else commented, so what.
Years ago a lot of us were stuck down in the Snowys at the bottom of a very steep, VERY wet and slippery climb and we were extricated initially using the "slingshot" technique:
Two 4wds drove up the
hill as far as they could, until stopped.
One of them then ran his winch cable out to maximum and connected that through a pulley anchored to a huge tree way up the
hill. The other 4wd then reversed down the
hill while the other drove and so one of the vehicles was moved further up the
hill.
They repeated that 4-5 times until one of the 4wds was on the level and then, using everybody's snatchstraps & towropes linked together he "towed" the other up the
hill.
Then the two of them, joined in tandem and anchored, progressively winched (using the joined tow-ropes) each of the rest of us (12-15) up the
hill.
What's my point?
Somebody suggested a pulley (around a tree) and you winch the van up. A pulley halves the load, remember.
My long-winded twopennethworth.
DB
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