What is the difference between a two-way and a three-way winch?
A. Two-way winches are manually operated winches used for hoisting people and/or equipment into or out of the confined space. Three-way winches are also manually operated winches but they are not engineered and/or intended for continuous raising and lowering of persons and/or equipment into or out of a confined space. Three-way winches have additional features such as a built-in SRL (Self-Retracting Lifeline) that enables winch ease of use for persons entering and exiting confined spaces that incorporate an entry/exit system; eg. ladder system. The SRL feature is a ‘trailing cable’ system built into a three-way winch that when connected to a person entering and/or exiting a confined space that happens to either slip and fall and/or become incapacitated, the SRL will immediately engage via the winch internal braking system so as to prevent the attached end-user from dropping/falling. If this were to occur, at this point, the three-way winch is intended to then be used in a mode for resc
A. Two-way winches are manually operated winches used for hoisting people and/or equipment into or out of the confined space. Three-way winches are also manually operated winches but they are not engineered and/or intended for continuous raising and lowering of persons and/or equipment into or out of a confined space. Three-way winches have additional features such as a built-in SRL (Self-Retracting Lifeline) that enables winch ease of use for persons entering and exiting confined spaces that incorporate an entry/exit system; eg. ladder system. The SRL feature is a ‘trailing cable’ system built into a three-way winch that when connected to a person entering and/or exiting a confined space that happens to either slip and fall and/or become incapacitated, the SRL will immediately engage via the winch internal braking system so as to prevent the attached end-user from dropping/falling. If this were to occur, at this point, the three-way winch is intended to then be used in a mode for resc
