Hi Dave,
I've never had a bad experience with them other than the cheap ones
their handles bend, making them useless. This one on the left I got from
an San Diego Gas & Electric employee in their tool a month club:
http://www.billhughes.com/chaintightener.jpg I do treat it with respect
covering it with a carpet remits, while pulling a dead pine tree in the
back yard bank over: http://www.billhughes.com/pineTree.jpg
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O


Dave Milne wrote:
>
> I'm with Steve - those things are f*king lethal - no way are their ratings
> real. Buy something decent like a griphoist/tirfor or whatever you call them
> your side of the pond, and you will see what their interpretation of a 1.5-3
> ton winch is ; a lot bigger.
>
> You can't avoid being near those come-along things, and they don't obey the
> number one rule of winch design; i.e. the rope is NOT the weakest link.
>
> Dave Milne, Scotland
> '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ