Thread: Pto winch

Hi

I've no doubt you could pull such and such up so and so with an electric winch. I never said you couldn't. I said relative to a PTO they are inferior. I stand by this and can support it.

The PTO, well mine is anyway, is a driven a 4.2 Litre V8 through via a 5 speed gearbox fully controllable in either direction with the clutch and throttle.

They will outlast and out-pull any conventional electric winch which is usually 12V electric motor and say 50 Amp/Hr battery or two with a duty cycle and recovery time till recharged.

Whether an electric or PTO is for you is your own debate. The question of a lasting pulling power will favor the PTO which is what I said, not that an electric winches are no good they are.

Clive

I thought the question was:
"I have a defender, I need a winch, I want to keep it simple..."

If keeping it simple is the priority

-Sparkie-

If you want to winch to timbuktoo then sure go chase a PTO

As I said if a PTO landed in my lap I would definitely go to the trouble of fitting it and it would get a flogging being used too ... but they are not necessarily simple if you dont have one!


S