Man Riding Winches

The man rated Sala P-W60L lightweight full man riding winch offers an 18 metre wire rope with the P-W120L offering a 36 metre wire rope. It is manually operated by simply rotating the handle to raise or lower personnel, the winches offered are supplied with galvanised cables if you require stainless steel cables please contact us.

Both units have a braked lowering facility and incorporate a safety overload, so that the wearer can not be injured upon recovery. These winches have the Sala quick fit mount fitted as standard.

Both units have a 6:1 gear ratio with an average lifting speed of 3.8 metres per minute, the safety hook also offers an impact indicator to show if the unit has taken an impacted load, hence requiring a full service. There is a free wheel facility allowing the operative to descend step irons or ladder rungs at a speed that they are comfortable with. If the operative should slip or fall there is an over speed braked clutch for safety.

The Sala advanced digital winch is a man riding winch with an 88 metre capacity ideal for deep excavations. The winch has 2 drives in which the handle can be fitted allowing for 2 speeds of deployment or recovery.

With the addition of the overload protection drive the winch can be powered using an electric drill through the high speed recovery drive, although the winch still retains a full manual system too. This allows deep drops to be recovered relatively quickly in comparison to many hand operated winches.

A risk assessment for this item is essential as this winch does not offer a braked lowering facility or safety slipping clutch as in the P-W range, also from Sala.

The LLRTZ is a full man riding winch with the added use of being able to lift goods to the weight of 254kgs. The LLRTZ offers a 9 metre cable length and with its patented retrieval drum allows the rope to be recovered or lowered with virtually no load attached to the safety hook.

The unit also features a governed descent mechanism which does not allow the operative or load to accelerate too quickly in any circumstances.

The G.Winch is certified for the lifting and lowering of personnel which can also be used for load lifting.

It has a 1:8.9 gear ratio that allows 50mm of rope retrieval per rotation. The G.Winch has an anti-run braking mechanism so that if the winding handle is released during lifting the winch automatically locks until the handle is rotated by the operator.

The G.Winch is available in 20m, or 40m rope lengths with a MWL of up to 250kg.

They are certified to EN1496 and the machinery directive 2006/42/EC.

The Rollgliss R350 is a rescue and positioning kit with pulleys, anchor sling, karabiner and carry bag.

The R350 man riding winch can be used for working or rescue, this unit comes into its own for chimneys and towers masts. The operative can self ascend or lower to his given task, the R350 also allows for a top man to have control, allowing him to recover the operative if the need so arises. The R350 in its 5:1 ratio can also be used to recover 2 operatives at once, making it a very practical recovery system.

The fall required is worked out on which unit is ordered by the ratio, a 2:1 for instance with a 50 metre rope fitted would give a fall of 25 metres, where as the 5:1 would have a fall of 10 metres. We have listed a number of options but these units really need to be built to operational or risk assessment needs.

The Lift Res-Q is a rescue, descender and lifting device for up to two people (maximum combined weight 225kg) that can operate to a height of 300m.

The descender function allows you to lower 1-2 people at a controlled speed of 0.8m/second. The recovery function enables evacuation of a casualty by a rescuer using the hand wheel or an electric screwdriver.

The descender can be set to operate as a shuttle system so that multiple people can descend from a work platform for instance. The lower karabiner is returned to the top of the unit as one person is descending. Once they have disconnected the next person can connect and begin their descent. We recorded a video of our trial of the Lift Res-Q for emergency evacuation.

The recovery function can be used in two ways. The rescuer can set the unit so that they can descend to the casualty then use the containment loops and acentric rope stop to lock off at the height required. The casualty can then be connected to the Lift Res-Q device. The rescuer then lifts themselves and the casualty to safety using the hand wheel. Optionally the rescuer can lower them both downwards.

The recovery function can also be used by passing the karabiner to the casualty for connection to their harness or by using a rescue pole to make this connection. The hand wheel or an electric screwdriver can then be used to raise the casualty to safety.

The Lift Res-Q may only be used as a rescue, descender and lifting device and only for transporting persons. It must not be used as a suspension system for work positioning.

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