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Ye old cross-over cable, more than it appears.

Alex Clark

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Life Long Alaskan
CROSS OVER CABLE:

It does more than let you cross from one side of the plane to the other. Which in itself is very nice....

1. It acts like a bumper to protect your propeller. Tree stumps, pier pilings, brush and tall grass will be deflected by the cable before it hits under prop. Thus giving you a couple seconds to kill the engine.

2. Plus a tight cross-over cable gives you another reference to bore-sight your float's spreader bars. If the cable, and both spreaders are all level with each other, your floats are usually happy campers and will take off faster and fly straighter.

3. You can stand centered on the cable, hold the prop hub and lean backwards to take weight off the rear (aft) section of the floats when you are heel beached.

4. It lets you access your prop hub and engine compartment while floating.

5. You can place a piece of plywood between your spreader bar and cable so you have a floor of sorts for oil changes and your tools will be less likely to drop into the lake.

6. Handy when you have a Rainbow on the line as well.

7. When you fall in it is one more place to grab when you flounder back to the surface ( done that a couple times)

8. It is another place to have your helpers ( wearing gloves) help you tug the plane forward and up onto the grass.

Some folks do not install them because they look funny.
Some folks can't get them tight and they have limp useless cables.
Sigmund Freud would have a heyday with that...
 

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CROSS OVER CABLE:

It does more than let you cross from one side of the plane to the other. Which in itself is very nice....

7. When you fall in it is one more place to grab when you flounder back to the surface ( done that a couple times)

Yeah, just don't straddle that wire as you slip and fall into the drink......

Also, having discovered a bad nicopress fitting on one as I crossed, thereby being immersed in some REALLY cold water (Kodiak in winter), you definitely want to "test" that thing gradually before trusting it.....

MTV
 
I have rang my bells on a couple of them while doing the splits on a cable... Then the icy cold water is not such a bad thing...
 
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