Winching

Combining a long weekend of camping, caravanning and muddy entertainment, the LANDROVERmax! event at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, will include a parade of classic Land Rovers as well as demonstrations of skills such as winching and off-roading as well as stunt driving. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* Place wheel blocks behind the tires when winching vehicle up an incline. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Happily the only sign of an oppressive regime indoors is the one featuring the house rules, stating "No football shirts, no bams and no winching at the bar" for those unfamiliar with Glasgow slang, bams are undesirable-types and winching means snogging. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Course he says he only got it for $400 so he ain't gonna be out that much if it falls through, Aside from the cost of winching it out, that is. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were attaching it to the crane used to move drill pipe, winching it down through the drill shaft to some lower point on the rig. ❋ Howard Gordon (2011)

Notice also the short pine trees, they may be short but they have a strong root system for winching out! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Choose wisely, as winching can generate extreme mechanical forces; if the anchor breaks free -- well, to put it in the vernacular, all hell will break loose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Helicopters were also shown winching people to safety. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He could only climb stairs with the help of a winching device and he was obliged to use what he called his “tram,” a chair fitted with wheels, to get about on level ground. ❋ Kate Emerson (2010)

On the night before opening day there would be anywhere from ten to thirty people pitching tents and playing poker and winching out trucks that had got stuck on the way back there. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If he'd had to kneel to anyone, he might have needed winching up afterwards. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to Israeli military accounts, commandos boarded the Rachel Corrie – named after an activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 – from naval vessels alongside rather than winching troops from helicopters as happened in Monday's operation. ❋ Harriet Sherwood In Gaza City (2010)

Kiefer's art is ferociously physical and tactile: he creates as if in some industrial forge? burning, smelting, winching up machinery, painting, smearing and often smashing. ❋ Peter Bradshaw At The Cannes Film Festival (2010)