Y Winch

Introduction

The Y winch is based on the chassis of a Tost 04 model winch. This had been purchased from the RAFGSA, mounted on the back of a bus chassis. For history, and details of the trailer chassis build, LPG system, etc, see the old page which detailed the work done Reserve Winch This winch suffered a catastrophic axle failure in late 2014. Since then some club members had spent a lot of time rebuilding the winch to use the large diameter Skylaunch drums, and made a full cab, etc. After failures with the club's other winch, it was decided that this winch needed to be finished ASAP - hence was sent to Skylaunch for them to finish the work in Autumn 2019. It was received back at Rivar Hill and commissioned in January 2020.