STRETCHING WIRE ROPE
TRACCIÓN
Como ya habrá notado, hay mucho que hacer y que tener en cuenta antes de empezar la tracción. Piense en lo que está haciendo para poder protegerse así mismo y a los demás. Es muy importante accionar correctamente el cabrestante; de hecho, debería practicar estas técnicas antes de enfrentarse a las distracciones y el estrés que conlleva una situación real donde hay que utilizarlo. Paso 11: COMPRUEBE EL CABLE . El cable deberá estar enrollado de forma adecuada en el tambor. El cable se puede dañar si el enrollado no se hace correctamente.
The life of a wire rope is directly related to the use and care it receives. Tensioning the wire rope is critical to ensure a long product life. Tensioning the wire rope will prevent outer layers of wire rope from pinching and deforming the inner layers. During its fi rst use, a new wire rope must be spooled onto its drum under a load of at least 500 lbs. (227kgs). Use the following instructions to properly stretch the wire rope onto the winch drum. 1) Choose a FLAT AND LEVEL location that is large enough to run out the entire length of wire rope. 2) Turn the clutch lever on the winch to the “Free Spool” position. Grab hook strap and spool out the wire rope to the last 5 wraps on the drum. Once the wire rope is spooled out, turn the clutch lever on the winch to the “Engaged” position. 3) Attach the hook end of the rope to a suitable load of approximately 500 lbs. (227 kgs). Load should be located so that there is very little slack in the wire rope. 4) Power in the winch until all of the wire rope slack is wound onto the winch drum. Wearing gloves, hold tension on the wire rope with one hand; carefully push the wire rope to the side of the drum the wire rope is attached to so there are no gaps between each coil on the drum. Be sure to check that the wire rope is winding off of the bottom of the drum, not the top. If the wire rope is winding off the top you have powered the winch “out” instead of “in”. 5) Use care to evenly wrap each layer to prevent damage to the rope.
6) Press power in on the remote pendant control. Make sure wire rope is winding correctly by watching it move across the fairlead as the wire rope is powered in. After winching in for approximately 6 ft, stop winching. Inspect the winch to make sure that the wire rope is being evenly wound onto the winch drum and not sinking into the lower layer. If the wire rope is sinking, power the wire rope out and repeat this step from the beginning with more winching load. 7) When you are convinced the wire rope is winding onto the winch drum properly, repeat step 5 until the load is within 3 ft of the winch. Once within 3 ft, stop winching and remove tension in wire rope. This will ensure that there is no load on the winch wire rope. Disconnect the hook from the load. While holding onto the supplied hook strap, hold tension on the winch rope and slowly power in the winch by “pulsing “the power in on the remote pendant control until the hook is at the fairlead. DO NOT POWER THE HOOK INTO THE FAIRLEAD. This could cause damage to the fairlead.
WARNING
Never operate winch with less than 5 wraps of rope around the drum. Rope could come loose from the drum, as the rope attachment to the drum, as the rope attachment to the drum is not designed to hold a load.
Nunca utilice el cabrestante como si fuese una grúa. PRECAUCIÓN
Paso 12: PONGA ALGO SOBRE EL CABLE , si cree que es necesario, a la mitad entre el cabrestante y el punto de carga para absorber energía en caso que el cable se suelte. Mantas pesadas, chaquetas gruesas, cadenas, una mochila y objetos parecidos se pueden utilizar con este propósito.
AVISO
Evite sobrecalentar el motor del cabres- tante. Si el uso del cabrestante se va a realizar durante un periodo de tiempo largo, pare el motor del mismo en inter- valos razonables para permitir que se enfríe. Consulte la tabla para ver las pautas de tiempo de funcionamiento.
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