Awesome
@V8Druid , looks in better nick than mine at the moment. Clutch went on it's last job but managed to roll it down the slope on the yard into a shed and thats where it has stood for a year, so thats the first job. Believe mine was Ex military and then to BAE. Will get some pics of it when I have a chance but did find the MOD Plate. Does yours have a WYLIE?
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Hmm ... that looks an old girl
@Charlie - steel bonnet isn't it? .... could be an 8 tonner? - it has the wing top weights on it!
what does your load chart say about capacities
what you have on there, Wylie-wise, is a horrible contraption .... presume you have a
safe load and an
overload light with little else ?? no load indicator as such, to tell you what is on the hook? .... same as my Rapier had .....
OK once you know your way around them, but a pig to keep in calibration and working smoothly .... everything has to work/move perfectly in 'em and has some very fragile components in it .... it does however work very well with a searcher hook, if it has luffing cylinder load sensing, which is how those usually work
my Wylie Loadwise on the Fairy ...
and the Wylie as fitted to the Rapier ... if you can see it well enough, looks identical set up to yours
IIRC I still have a couple of new replacement micro-switches for that system?
Pretty sure I still have full manuals for a few of the Sapphires too
has the auto compensation for the
hoist on telescope been removed from yours? .... bit of a bitch to reeve on a rope change and was often ignored
... can't see it in your pic???