BOD said:
How does a Finnish windlass differ from a Spanish windlass?
I can't find any reference to it except in connection with Mors Kochanski's book (which I can't get)
their is no actual reference to windlasses in Mors Kochanski's book 'Bushcraft'
But in a pamphlet written by him titled "top seven bush knots and the use of the windlass" he covers the 'Finnish' 'Spanish' and 'flip flop' windlasses.
this is the Spanish windlass (sorry for the poor image)
I cannot find an image of the Finnish windlass online but looking at it in Mors pamphlet it is an altogether much more complicated affair with the drum pole raised up off the ground on two tripods and held in the horizontal plane like a saw horse.
the flip flop winch is a much simplified version of the finish windlass without the requirement for the tripods, as well as being the most simple windlass it also offers the most powerful mechanical advantage of the three, which pretty much makes the Spanish and the finnish redundant.