What I did to my 3rd Gen today - by rkntoy

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Fuckin A dude. How’d that happen? Asking for me who doesn’t want to take any ER pics.
New winch, bound up winch rope and not following safety procedures. Happened on a Sat, but the Monday before had been wheeling at night will a few pulls to the driver side. Long story short - put the winch in neutral and the line only came out 6ish inches. New winches can be tight spooling out so didn't think anything was off. Plugged in the remote to power out, grabbed the thimble to pull with thumb and index finger behind the thimble for leverage, hit the out button and the line went in as it was bound up.

Lessons that I knew already but didn't follow - respool your line, don't stick your fingers between the thimble and bumper (now have a clevis on my Factor 55 Pro style so I can pull on that)

Lesson I knew but glad I didn't follow - wearing gloves. If I had been wearing my usual leather gloves my thumb/finger would have been amputated instead of being squished out when the thimble met the bumper.
 
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