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Hand Winch - Thoughts?
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21 Apr 2011 08:48 #15305
by facade
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
Replied by facade on topic Re: Hand Winch - Thoughts?
There is one of those winches hanging up in my garage.
Works well enough, I've lifted a few engines out with it, and used it to haul my mate's car up his sloping drive and into his garage.
It will only pull about 3 feet, so you need 500 yards of chain, various shackles etc. to attach it to something, then by the time you have taken up the strain, there is only 2 feet of pull left (that is why you need chain, rope stretches).
Frankly, you are better off with a towrope, and another car behind that isn't stuck to pull you out backwards.
The best hand winches are tifors, as said earlier.,
You can use a hilift jack to pull, but these suffer from similar problems with the rope stretching, and weigh a lot.
Works well enough, I've lifted a few engines out with it, and used it to haul my mate's car up his sloping drive and into his garage.
It will only pull about 3 feet, so you need 500 yards of chain, various shackles etc. to attach it to something, then by the time you have taken up the strain, there is only 2 feet of pull left (that is why you need chain, rope stretches).
Frankly, you are better off with a towrope, and another car behind that isn't stuck to pull you out backwards.
The best hand winches are tifors, as said earlier.,
You can use a hilift jack to pull, but these suffer from similar problems with the rope stretching, and weigh a lot.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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