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Vehicle Winches
Hi Guys
Apart from vehicle recovery what other tasks do your staff use their vehicle mounted winches for?
I assume there will be conductor pulling etc, but what else is there.
We have identified some unwanted things and before we make a kneejerk reaction and create some blanket rule I thought I would see whats happening out there.
Thanks in advance
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At a previous network our arborists were using ute-mounted winches to pull over trees (i.e machine-assisted felling). Due to disparity in weights we had two incidents where the falling tree pulled the ute rather than the other way around, so the practice was banned.
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In 2017 Downer made staff that were assigned to a ute fitted with a winch sign a declaration stating that they would not use it for pulling conductors, lifting any object with a pulley system or using it to climb above or below ground. To answer your question regarding potentially unwanted acts and missed from the declaration was the act of pulling over/straightening poles.
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