Interesting winching technique!

[McDisco]

Hey check this out! It looks like they are using the rear wheel as a winch and running it through some sort of block on the front bumper!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ut2CrqbVA&search=4x4

And its a disco too! Dont know where the back door is though! lol.

Angus

[timberwolf_302]

Thats an idea... rough but functional.

[Yabbie]

Looks a damm site lot cheaper then a Arb winch bar and a Warn winch too!!

I have 2

[George130]

Looks like an easy way of getting it free again. Door must have been used as sand/mud ladder earlier.

[matbor]

http://www.atvsource.com/images/article_images/press_releases/2000/walker_atv_winch/walker_winch_3.jpg

[dobbo]

Just basically a captan winch. Try attaching that when your stuck upto the bonnet in a boghole though

[langy]

There's an article about the original one - the 1962 Williams Wheel winch - pg 85 of June's LRO magazine. Apparantly it was mounted on both front wheels using 3 out of 5 wheel studs and nuts. A bar to keep the two ropes spaced apart was rigged near the anchor point, and using a pulley block at each end of the bar and one on the middle of the front of the vehicle a single rope was threaded thru and secured to each device on each wheel. You saw the rest.

[McDisco]

Interesting...never seen anything like it before. I think my Warn XD9000 the bull bar is a bit more practical for me...

Angus

[barney]

there's a good photo of exactly the same setup in this month's (sept) edition of LRE, in their winch feature.
you have a capstan attached to the rear hubs, the rope goes forward thru some guides on the side of the front bar and up to a snatch block attached to a tree. basically, the two ends are attached to the capstans and the middle of the rope is in the snatch block.
you'd have to use blody thick rope or plasma and you may need some mates there to hold onto the ends, although the one in LRE had some little friction holders on the rear bar that the cable went thru.