Ultra-Enclosed DBW-5

Occasionally we receive requests from customers concerned about ensuring the absolute utmost safety for their operators.  Our standard fully-enclosed winch frames don’t quite fully meet their preferences for eliminating all risks of fingers, hands, or tools accidentally falling into the winch during use.  We’re more than happy to do what we can to modify winch designs to accommodate these preferences.

This DBW-5 ordered for borehole inspection work, for example, was modified so that the only opening into the winch was a thin slot for the cable to come out of the levelwind.  Not even fingers can fit into the openings.

This ultra-enclosed design was an ideal fit for this customer’s application because they will always be using the winch with the cable exiting approximately horizontally to a sheave suspended by a tripod over the borehole.  Other applications, however, such as marine applications where the cable usually exits the winch at an angle to go up to a sheave suspended from an A-frame, may not be able to work with this exact iteration of an ultra-enclosed frame design.  Contact us if an ultra-enclosed frame is important for you, and we can assess what we can do.