Thanks Diana.
Had fun with it on Saturday. Looked at the winch.
The shear pin was broken. It wasn't a shear pin. It was a ground down metric bolt.
Whilst talking shear pins, I'm going to use another bolt. What grade would people recommend and why?
Anyway, the winch. I wanted to re-spool it so we wound it out. It's slow. The air actuator wasn't working (as we discovered later ) so we had Mrs. Alien in the Disco dragging the cable out.
The cable is long. When Mrs Alien was almost up to the neighbour over the roads front door, we put a snatch block on it, doubling the cable over, and continued unspooling.
When it was almost out, we discovered the faulty actuator.
We spooled it back in. It looks much more respectable now now that the cable is not wrapped around the front bumper half a dozen times.
I can hardly wait when we use it in anger in the forest. Can you get big tree protectors?