The screwdriver hack with a hole drilled thru looks good for wiring a trap anchor.

I have the 50' rope a long. I use it in conjunction with 100' blue steel knock off rope. I had trouble when I used the 1/2" rope a long rope in overflow. The rope got wet and froze. Made it slip a lot when cranking and impossible to pull the slack through wench like when rope is dry. Now I use the blue steel for the "wet end" and keep the rope along out of the soup when ever possible. A looped half hitch of the blue steel on the rope a long hook is easy to remove and pull tight before making the half hitch. Even when frozen the blue line can be just slid off the tapered hook and untied easily.

I also don't bring the rope a long inside my heated shop if I'm going to be using it around home for cutting wood in the snow. I like to make sure its dry, then hung outside to stay cold. Warm rope hitting the snow stiffens and freezes way faster than dry cold rope does.

I carry a capstan winch made by portable winch. Weighs 25 lbs. I have used this winch to drag a moose across the tundra for a mile back to the boat. I have pulled a Wooldridge Alaskan XL off of a sand bar and even use it to drag logs. They work great, although they are more expensive than a manual rope along. You could sit on your machine while using the capstan winch takes very little pressure on the rope to operate.

Hey Maule, how how well does it work when your dead man cuts loose

Fisherman it does not run underwater if that is what you are asking. lol