Sheet Load Engineering

[Brion Toss]

Hi again,
Great traveler story. I once saw a winch explode, one of the gears blowing a hole in the wall. At least I think it was a gear, but we never found it. So yeah, we are dealing with forces that matter, which is one reason to run those numbers.
As you move on to block selection, remember that the angle of the line on the block determines block load, and that you do not scale the block to the selected rope size, but to load and angle.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss