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Which improvised tourniquet windlasses work well and which ones won't?.

While the original scheme that twelve anchor windlasses drive twelve mooring lines is improved into the scheme that proposing switching strategy to control twelve mooring lines driven by four anchor windlasses which has three sprockets.

A portable steam engine belted to the double windlass was sited at the field's edge and each end of the rope was attached to one of the two windlasses. A plow or cultivator was hooked to the rope at a field corner opposite the engine and was pulled back and forth across the field by reversing the winding drums on the windlass.

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It includes 14 Pusnes fairlead chain stoppers and three moveable Pusnes windlasses for 165 mm chain size.

"He had been right to the bottom, with the weight of the windlasses, which he hadn't let go of.

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