Exempel på winch

• They used a boat winch to crank the beast into the truck.

• The helicopter was hovering above us and they dropped a winch down.

• He is credited with inventing the hand-cranked winch, a labour-saving device for hoisting sails.

• The sunken boat was slowly winched to the surface.

• An attempt was made to winch the two survivors into a helicopter.

• Imagine yourself in Salisbury watching the last stones of the 404ft cathedral spire being winched into place.

• But the winches on each side of the bridge were electric, not hand-driven, which made for much less labour.

• Here they could not get the anchors out because the winch was frozen in a lump of ice.

• Insects were caught in a tapering net suspended several metres below an aerodynamically shaped, helium-filled balloon (blimp) attached to a lightweight motorized winch.

• This did not work, and the axle was used as a winch to operate weather balloons.

• Larsen planned to flense alongside, hoist blankets of blubber and meat aboard using powerful winches and derricks, and process on deck.

• Truck movement along the vertical is performed by program-controlled winches equipped with position transducers.

• They were rescued only when the lift was winched manually back to ground level, after which two people required oxygen from the emergency services.

• It is true that there are winches to be worked, and that retrieving motor cars are sometimes used for bringing in gliders from considerable distances.

• Sometimes, there are devious warp winches and warps are poorly maintained.

• There ropes are not held in the hand, but on a winch, which is then wound.

• These balloon barrage winches can launch a glider on flat country to heights which it could never attain from even the best of hillsides.

• They have proved what can be done in areas winch formerly supported only wild beasts and a few nomadic tribesmen with poor, under-fed flocks.

• I also want to reply to one of the accusations winch was made against our party.

• In the first place it deals with the question of terminology, winch has given rise to a good deal of confusion.

• One of the great engineering firms that repaired ships and manufactured winches was due to go out of business.