[Low-Tech] Windlass and cranequin

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Lupo

I think that everybody already understood that was your point. Since you appear to be so expert on cranequins, I think you could have said it straight in the first post... "I think cranequins in Low Tech are too light, they should weight more according to Payne-Gallwey"...

Payne-Gallwey is an Edwardian author. Hence I did not consider it improbable that the authors had found more modern scholarship discrediting some of his views.