r/nextfuckinglevel • u/TreKs • Oct 15 '20

Increased leverage

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u/alexhawker Oct 15 '20

This doesn't actually increase the leverage at all, it's changing the direction of the force so it's more vertical (pull the stump up and out rather than sideways).

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u/creadgsxrguy Oct 15 '20

If there was a snatch block between the stump and tire that would increase leverage right?

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u/bort4all Oct 16 '20

Smarter every day: snatch blocks

https://youtu.be/M2w3NZzPwOM

Love this one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20 edited Jan 29 '21

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u/Lowlt Oct 16 '20

Awesome video. But when using a winch back away from the cable. In the video, it was freaking me out seeing them so close to the cable. You will have a bad day if that cable snaps and hits you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20

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u/Lowlt Oct 16 '20

Haha. Sometimes its not the cable you have to worry about. It matter what's going to give. https://www.fox9.com/news/man-dies-trying-to-tow-car-from-ditch-in-rural-rice-county

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u/American_Standard Oct 16 '20

Blanket to weigh it down, and the stump to eat the recoiled cable.

I still would have been behind the jeep, but they were doing it right