winch

You could install the winch spanning the elevator shaft at the tenth floor or something, if 40 stories of cable is too heavy for your winch.

It's one thing to compensate a crane or a winch, it's another to compensate an entire vehicle.

It's century-old technology, can be operated manually, you could use a gasoline engine on the winch if electricity isn't available.

I still want a way to guide the vehicle manually without having to call someone with a winch.

And those don't require digging out a 500m hole, or the supporting equipment to winch a car up and down a skyscraper.

One of the reasons this seems so awesome to me is that it could replace the forklift, winch, pulley, or any given lifting/pulling/etc.

It's actually much cheaper and easier to sink some anchors and winch the barge down a bit than to try and do active compensation.

If the tether was attached to a winch then they could lower or raise the turbines depending on the optimal altitude for wind speed.

Nearly all flat-bed tow trucks here in the US have a winch.

We typically use them as power sources for chargin LiPo's for electric model aircraft at the field or to power the glider launch winch.

Or winch it up an incline too steep to drive?

One reason why I appreciate my glider rating - we always know where/when we're going if our engine (tow plane or winch) stops.

The scenario described is so rare, that "calling someone with a winch" is likely to become the de-facto scenario.

I used to use tmux, now I use dvtm and dtach with the following alias: alias vtmux="dtach -A /tmp/dvtm -z -e ^s -r winch dvtm -m ^a"

Winch goes on to suggest that the moral of the dialogue is a particular case of a general lesson, to the effect that the proper application of rules governing a form of human activity cannot itself be summed up with a set of further rules, and so that "a form of human activity can never be summed up in a set of explicit precepts" (p.

That said, when it comes to mechanics, I think most realize that the model is naive -- students don't feel "deceived" -- and the ratios etc do actually translate to some useful intuitions when doing real-world work (eg: clearing rocks with wire, winch and tackle).