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This document stipulates measures as well as requirements in respect to performance and safety for winches that are used in agriculture and forestry for logging and skidding work.
It applies to permanently mounted and removable winches and their components, which are mounted on mobile and selfpropelled forestry machines as defined in ISO 6814:2009, as well as to winches for forestry mounted on agricultural tractors that are used for forestry work. The document also applies to capstan winches and winches using driving sheaves or driving pulleys for forestry.
It does not apply to winches:
— that are used for hoisting or lifting operations;
— that are used in draglines;
— that are used in in yarders, unless winches according to 5.17;
— designed for traction aid purposes;
— using operating and control voltages > 42 V;
— that are used with log splitters according to EN 609-1.
It applies exclusively to winches that are used for dragging loads on horizontal and inclined ground during logging operations or which are used to support tree felling work.
The significant hazards included in this document are identified in Annex A.
This document is not applicable to winches manufactured before the date of its publication.
The proposed standard shall provide uniform and reliable safety and design requirements for forestal logging winches. It is based on the existing standard ISO 19472, which has become outdated over time.
The standard aims to reflect the latest knowledge in accident prevention and to incorporate the newest developments in winch design and winch control, amongst them remote control action, electronic control, and progress made with the technology of winch ropes. Furthermore the standard shall serve as a guideline for the state of the art in logging winch technology and serve as the only relevant safety standard for forestal winches.
As a project under the Vienna agreement the standard shall establish uniform requirements for all sort of forestal winches by replacing EN 14492-1 which so far serves as safety standard for three-point hitched winches but was not developed by ISO/TC 23/SC 15
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