Guide to Winching Service

At Melbourne Towing Guys, we are familiar with the ins and outs of each and every aspect of medium, light and heavy duty service. In this brief blog, a few of our highly skilled licensed technicians will discuss the role of a winch. A winch is an indispensable piece of equipment used for towing is able to do in the field to assist in towing and recovering any size of vehicle.

Use of Winches

Winches are used to raise vehicles with ropes, cables, and chains wrapped around a drum which is cranked using an engine or a machine. Winches can rescue vehicles – and sometimes even animals or people from off-road locations or even places like the mountains and rivers. Tow trucks are equipped with winches on their backs, and are capable of quickly removing vehicles from unusual and blocked places.

What situations call for a the recovery of a winch?

Certain scenarios that require winch recovery are:

• Car breakdowns
• Cars abandoned on the highway
• Towing vehicles
• Car is damaged
• Vehicles stuck in mud , dirt or sand
• Plus much more!

Winch Strength

The strength of a winch is associated with 1.5 of the vehicle’s gross weight. It follows that if your car weighs 6000 pounds, your recovery capacity of the winch is 9000 pounds. The power of a winch cable is also influenced by the number of winsch cables have been wrapped around the drum. The greater the number of layers, less the pull strength. The power of pull can also be affected due to the cable chain, rope, or cable length. As the longer material that is present there is a greater chance of it becoming damaged and snagged or bunched together. It is essential during the winchign process the cable or rope runs straight, and is wrapped in a straight direction over the drum. A highly skilled towing tech, such as the ones at Melbourne Towing Guys can effectively use winches to remove all kinds of vehicles in all types of circumstances, according to these specific technical requirements.