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March 7

Electrical roping motor

Dear Wikipedians,

is this a machine to get propelled on a rope? If not, how is it called?

--Wochenbett (talk) 10:28, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The manual version is called a Tyrolean traverse. Alansplodge (talk) 11:52, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is something called a "battery drill winch", designed to be powered by an electric drill. The picture doesn't show a winch. However, there is a product called a "Pulley-man", which is like a battery drill winch, but has no cable drum. The fireman in the picture appears to be using a Pulley-man in an unconventional way, as a powered pulley system for rope rescue. A similar device is an Ascender (climbing): "power ascender" is a search term that shows battery-powered (but not electric-drill-powered) devices for ascending ropes vertically. Here is a DIY project using a drill, which the person is calling a "powered ascender". Card Zero (talk) 13:00, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]