Man Riding Winches

The man rated Sala P-W60L lightweight full man riding winch offers an 18 metre wire rope with the P-W120L offering a 36 metre wire rope. It is manually operated by simply rotating the handle to raise or lower personnel, the winches offered are supplied with galvanised cables if you require stainless steel cables please contact us.

Both units have a braked lowering facility and incorporate a safety overload, so that the wearer can not be injured upon recovery. These winches have the Sala quick fit mount fitted as standard.

Both units have a 6:1 gear ratio with an average lifting speed of 3.8 metres per minute, the safety hook also offers an impact indicator to show if the unit has taken an impacted load, hence requiring a full service. There is a free wheel facility allowing the operative to descend step irons or ladder rungs at a speed that they are comfortable with. If the operative should slip or fall there is an over speed braked clutch for safety.

The Sala advanced digital winch is a man riding winch with an 88 metre capacity ideal for deep excavations. The winch has 2 drives in which the handle can be fitted allowing for 2 speeds of deployment or recovery.

With the addition of the overload protection drive the winch can be powered using an electric drill through the high speed recovery drive, although the winch still retains a full manual system too. This allows deep drops to be recovered relatively quickly in comparison to many hand operated winches.

A risk assessment for this item is essential as this winch does not offer a braked lowering facility or safety slipping clutch as in the P-W range, also from Sala.

The LLRTZ is a full man riding winch with the added use of being able to lift goods to the weight of 254kgs. The LLRTZ offers a 9 metre cable length and with its patented retrieval drum allows the rope to be recovered or lowered with virtually no load attached to the safety hook.

The unit also features a governed descent mechanism which does not allow the operative or load to accelerate too quickly in any circumstances.

Didsbury’s Deco 2000 is a lightweight aluminium man riding winch with a brake system operating a governed lowering speed. The unit is available in either 19m or 37m meaning that it will facilitate the vast majority of needs for confined space entry and rescue.

Due to the fact that its delivery method for the wire cable is passed through a tubular system the winch can be mounted to EN795 anchorage points in low ceilings. For use with tripods the winch requires certain methods of attachment so is well suited to our Dual Use Tripod which are designed to operate with a Didbury winch.

The winch incorporates the features listed below:

• Compact and lightweight for easy handling.
• Controlled multi-layering cable action minimises snagging to ensure smooth operation and long cable life.
• Manually operated in the standard form.
• 2-Speed operation gives controlled raise and lower under load.
• Speed governed automatic descent feature minimises operator effort requirement.
• Automatic braking system.
• Built to meet load requirements specified by health and safety and industrial markets.
• Proof loaded, tested and certified.

The G.Winch is certified for the lifting and lowering of personnel which can also be used for load lifting.

It has a 1:8.9 gear ratio that allows 50mm of rope retrival per rotation. The G.Winch has an anti-run braking mechanism so that if the winding handle is realeasd during lifting the winch automatically locks until the handle is rotated by the operator.

The G.Winch is available in 20m or 40m galvanised or stainless steel rope lengths with a MWL of up to 250kg.

They are certified to EN1496 and the machinery directive 2006/42/EC.

The Harken LokHead rope winch was designed for persons to gain access and to be able to perform rescue for others so it has been extensively certificated to EN13157 (500kg MRL) & EN1496 (240kg MRL).

It accepts rope diameters of 10 to 12.7mm that are certified to EN1891 and has 2 speeds of recovery with the high delivering 13.5:1 and the low providing 40:1.

The Harken LokHead winch can be attached to tripods, davits or a plate allowing it to be secured off using ropes to multiple points. Recovery of the rope can be made using the standard 10” handle or with a drill adaptor and rechargeable drill set to the lowest winding solution.

The Harken LokHead winch is the perfect solution where there are increased descent distances.

Ash Safety have multiple types of Harken plate adaptors so that the winch can be attached for all scenarios.

The Rollgliss R350 is a rescue and positioning kit with pulleys, anchor sling, karabiner and carry bag.

The R350 man riding winch can be used for working or rescue, this unit comes into its own for chimneys and towers masts. The operative can self ascend or lower to his given task, the R350 also allows for a top man to have control, allowing him to recover the operative if the need so arises. The R350 in its 5:1 ratio can also be used to recover 2 operatives at once, making it a very practical recovery system.

The fall required is worked out on which unit is ordered by the ratio, a 2:1 for instance with a 50 metre rope fitted would give a fall of 25 metres, where as the 5:1 would have a fall of 10 metres. We have listed a number of options but these units really need to be built to operational or risk assessment needs.

The Lift Res-Q is a rescue, descender and lifting device for up to two people (maximum combined weight 225kg) that can operate to a height of 300m.

The descender function allows you to lower 1-2 people at a controlled speed of 0.8m/second. The recovery function enables evacuation of a casualty by a rescuer using the hand wheel or an electric screwdriver.

The descender can be set to operate as a shuttle system so that multiple people can descend from a work platform for instance. The lower karabiner is returned to the top of the unit as one person is descending. Once they have disconnected the next person can connect and begin their descent. We recorded a video of our trial of the Lift Res-Q for emergency evacuation.

The recovery function can be used in two ways. The rescuer can set the unit so that they can descend to the casualty then use the containment loops and acentric rope stop to lock off at the height required. The casualty can then be connected to the Lift Res-Q device. The rescuer then lifts themselves and the casualty to safety using the hand wheel. Optionally the rescuer can lower them both downwards.

The recovery function can also be used by passing the karabiner to the casualty for connection to their harness or by using a rescue pole to make this connection. The hand wheel or an electric screwdriver can then be used to raise the casualty to safety.

The Lift Res-Q may only be used as a rescue, descender and lifting device and only for transporting persons. It must not be used as a suspension system for work positioning.