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Originally Posted by 1795
Good point about the winch typical being in the center. When I installed the winch on my trailer it was offset to the side that the strap was attached to the quick jack, so it is more of a straight line pull.
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Wait a minute, this is just high school trig. You know, the horizontal and vertical components of a force that acts at an angle measured from the x-axis? I asked Ellie and she says that if the quick jack tow hook is one foot away from the exact middle of the car, and the tow winch is lined up with the exact middle of the car, and the winch is ten feet away from the car, the angle is just over 5 degrees to that quick jack hook from the winch. The sine of 5 degrees is about .087, so if the winch is pulling a thousand pounds worth of force to get the car up the ramp, you've got 87 pounds pulling sideways on that hook. That ain't much. Ellie says she can muster up that amount of force with one paw and that we're dumb for having to ask a dog to solve a simple trig problem.
