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We have a couple of those aluminum biners laying around -- no one likes them since they are screw gate. Using them to clip the water cooler up on the racks in the chip truck. Saw biners we have are the Petzl Am'D ball lock. I think the rope is actually 8,000 lb strength Samson, so it would be...

If our ground man can't learn to tie a knot, maybe he's knotistic. Rich, we use a marl in the front (butt end) of the load, then were using a the carabiner or hook further out. But now it's marl in the front, running bowline or timber hitch in the back. That way once the load is on the table...

I generally agree with that sentiment, but we can re-assign people to focus on brush hauling and raking duties. Better to have more specialized (and careful) operators who know the equipment and know how to use it without risking anything. When you get out of a groove and lose your method...

Marc-Antoine, thanks for the idea of the soft shackles. I looked at them, but at $30-60 for some of the bigger/stronger varieties, I think we'll pass for now -- basically the same cost as a decent winch carabiner. Instead, we're going to reset our workflow and get back to a simple rhythm and...

Yes, hydraulic 10,000 lb winch (Vermeer BC1800). Rope, not steel cable. Funny how me & the climber have never sent anything through the chipper... (I did toss a pair of ratty gloves through, they came out unscathed -- no more holes than they went in with!)

Seen anything in aluminum rated for 10,000 lbs pull? I tend to think aluminum would bend like silly putty on some of the stuff we pull with the winch (like the Osage we pulled over 2 days ago). Of course, our current winch line is a retired climbing line, so that's only rated for 7,000. I guess...

Same story, different fella at least. Right after we flipped the knives one week ago! One slight consolation was it wasn't the $60 carabiner; been using a sub $10 forged hook recently:

Again. Sigh. :pissed: :dontknow: ::cry:

Oh no, each time :D Why wait till the 3rd time!

Nutball, log & large carabiner go into the knives, knives get chewed up on the metal but still cut the rope, rope goes slack. We lose the knives and carabiner, and now the winch rope's about done for since it's now far shorter than 150', making it far less useful. Boss, not really in a position...

2 Weeks Later... The Carnage Continues Same operator made the chipper eat the winch rope again. $275 mistake, plus time to change the knives and tie on a new carabiner. Should we give it 3 strikes you're out? Maybe I'll gently shove him aside and run the controls full time from here on out...

Brand new knives on the chipper! Let the metal detection begin! :/: