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These hoists are designed to lift a person's weight off their gear long enough to transfer them to different rigging (e.g., a hauling system). They are not designed to lift heavy loads long distances.
Carroll developed these for a rescue team whose members could not remember how to rig a pulley-based system. That scares me, and so I work hard to avoid being rescued by anyone that I don't know. Fear of ridicule and embarrassment keeps me from being rescued by anyone that I do.
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Carroll Bassett gave me this hoist in 2023.
This hoist is 410 mm. tall, 93 mm. wide, 211 mm. thick, and weighs 1458 g.
This hoist has a 4.8 mm. 304 stainless steel frame with a rotating fork and crank at one end and two hooks and a fixed handle at the other. The crank is hinged where it attached to the fork axle, allowing it to pivot outward. The hook on the fork side acts as a rope guide that, along with the lower handle, helps prevent device rotation. The other hook serves as a storage and holding point for the crank.
There are no markings on this hoist.
The fork allows attaching the hoist to a loaded line (unlike a capstan). In testing, Carroll found that the mechanical advantage of the direct crank was insufficient, so he abandoned this prototype and proceeded to develop a geared version.
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Carroll Bassett gave me this hoist in 2023.
This hoist is 384 mm. long, 105 mm. wide, 241 mm. thick, and weighs 2440 g.
The hoist has a compound gear train with two 60-tooth and two 16-tooth gears sandwiched between two 7 mm. aluminum plates. A 185 mm. crank drives the gears to turn the rope fork. A rope guide is welded to the end of a 300 mm. long square-tube stainless steel arm. A spring-loaded larch prevents gear rotation when it is not withheld by the user.
There are no markings on this hoist.
The fork allows attaching the hoist to a loaded line (unlike a capstan). The ends of the fork have an improved shape compared to the fork on Version B. This helps keep the rope on the fork.
The gear train adds considerable weight, but the resulting 14:1 gear ratio makes this hoist much easier to use than the earlier version.
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