DBI SALA Winch + Tripod System — 8301080, 7 ft with 60 ft Cable

The 3M DBI-SALA 8301080 is the tripod-and-winch decision made once, at the factory: a DBI-SALA personnel winch with 60 ft of galvanized cable, matched to the 7 ft Advanced aluminum tripod and documented as a single system. It is the premium integrated package that large-plant specifications copy line for line.

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What the matched dbi sala winch system buys you

Component rigs make you the systems integrator: winch model, bracket, cable, routing, head — five decisions, five compatibility checks. The 8301080 collapses them into one documented answer, with the winch and 7 ft tripod specified, warranted, and inspected together. Sixty feet of galvanized cable handles the wet vertical environments where working lines actually live, and the whole assembly stays inside the Advanced accessory ecosystem. The integrated-versus-component decision is mapped in the confined space equipment collection, and our full 8301080 review prices it against building the same rig from parts.

Tripod with winch is the working line — the rescue line is separate

The division of labor on a rescue-ready rig is strict: the winch raises, lowers, and positions a conscious worker; the 3-way retrieval SRL arrests a fall and cranks the worker out afterward. The 8301080 supplies the first line factory-matched; the second mounts to the same head. Route both over the geometry the system expects, put the entrant in a full-body harness — D-ring layouts in the harness guide — and the rig covers both failure modes a vertical entry can produce. For fixed, scheduled entry points, the 8005048 base keeps the footprint identical visit after visit.

A winch is not a personal fall arrest system: the entrant rides the fall-arrest line, the winch serves as the working line, and no vertical entry starts until both are rigged and function-checked at the collar.

The permit program around the package

OSHA 29 CFR 1910.146 treats retrieval hardware as one leg of the entry: the atmosphere is tested with a calibrated unit from the 4-gas monitor collection — the H2S guide and industrial CO guide cover the utility staples — ventilation runs continuously from an Allegro blower or the high-volume MOUNTO, and the rescue bag stages a trauma kit plus retrieval wristlets for narrow portals. What enforcement costs when the program is paper-only is quantified in our OSHA PPE violation report.

Where it sits in the lineup

Below it, component builds on the 8000140 or value-tier MSA Workman cost less and flex more; oversized openings call for the tall 8000141 instead of this standard-height package. The full field — kits, components, and budget options — is ranked in the tripod systems guide, with the retractable side covered in the SRL buyer's guide and the governing rules in when fall protection is required. The wider load path lives in the fall protection collection.

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Bottom line: the 8301080 is the no-integration-risk way to put a matched winch and tripod over the hole — premium money for the certainty that every part was chosen by the people who built it.