Patent ID: 7137618

Claim:
A hand held, power-assisted cable-pulling apparatus comprising: a housing having: a hollow handle body with a fluid-powered actuator; a fluid control valve, for controlling fluid pressure supply to the actuator; and an operating trigger for the control valve; a disc-like take-up wheel, having a circumferential line-engaging portion and having a concentric ratchet portion; a take-up wheel shaft extending through a center of the take-up wheel, and attached with respect to the housing, configured and arranged such that the take-up wheel can rotate about a longitudinal axis of the shaft; a drive transfer coupling, for operative driving connection between the actuator and the ratchet portion, at least one ratchet-portion-engageable dog pawl pivotally attached with respect to the housing; a line having a cable attachment mechanism and non-slippingly engaged with the take-up-wheel line-engaging portion; and a ground fixation mechanism attached with respect to the housing for maintaining the housing fixed in space, whereby the take-up wheel may be selectively rotated in a clockwise take-up direction.