Winches and wire cables - Help

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Originally Posted by travelrover

Hi Windsock

I have been using a high lift jack (with the appropriate fittings) as a manual winch off one of the trees but it is unable to move the vehicle even after adding a 2 meter length of gal pipe for leverage. So much tension on it now I can’t get it lower, ie reduce the tension. Depending on the forecast rain and even if I can get some sort of cable on the winch I need to get some timber under the wheels to overcome the suction and the diffs stuck in the mud. There are plenty of saplings that they used to get the excavators out so I just need to chop some of those to length.

Cheers - Simon

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You can increase the capacity of the jack by using a snatch block, but as has been mentioned, don't pull the ute apart by attaching to the body. Attach to each side of the most bogged axle.
Don.

After a lot of mucking around I could not get the wire cable connected to the lug on the drum so I replaced with a synthetic rope which is so much easier to use. Rigging this up via a snatch block I was able to move forward a little enabling me to remove the high lift jack, chains and tree protectors that I was trying to use as a hand winch.

With that out of the way I winched forward out of the hole I was in and then drove about 20 meters to level ground at which point I had to stop to wind in the winch cable and remove snatch block and tree protector and we promptly sank into the very wet grass. Had about another 300mms of rain since I last down here on the weekend.

I need to turn this vehicle around so I can winch out the other one out and then get them both across the paddock up another steep track to the shed! Don’t think that is going to happen until we get some more sunshine [emoji3508] and a little less rain.

But at least there is progress.

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Originally Posted by travelrover

After a lot of mucking around I could not get the wire cable connected to the lug on the drum so I replaced with a synthetic rope which is so much easier to use. Rigging this up via a snatch block I was able to move forward a little enabling me to remove the high lift jack, chains and tree protectors that I was trying to use as a hand winch.

With that out of the way I winched forward out of the hole I was in and then drove about 20 meters to level ground at which point I had to stop to wind in the winch cable and remove snatch block and tree protector and we promptly sank into the very wet grass. Had about another 300mms of rain since I last down here on the weekend.

I need to turn this vehicle around so I can winch out the other one out and then get them both across the paddock up another steep track to the shed! Don’t think that is going to happen until we get some more sunshine [emoji3508] and a little less rain.

But at least there is progress.

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Try using more than one snatch block [thumbsupbig]
The recovery will be slower But you will end up with more pulling power using 2 or even 3 snatch blocks in the pull instead of only 1 .

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Originally Posted by trout1105

Try using more than one snatch block [thumbsupbig]
The recovery will be slower But you will end up with more pulling power using 2 or even 3 snatch blocks in the pull instead of only 1 .

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Thanks Trout1105, unfortunately I only have one but might be worth a trip to ARB on the weekend.

My biggest problem just now is turning the 300Tdi around so it’s pointing toward the Td5 (which now has a flat battery) so I can attach the winch cable. The ground is very spongy and rain everyday in the forecast for the next 10 days though significantly less than we have had!

Are you able to jack it up with airbag or high lift and put planks under the wheels to aid the recovery, or are you in a bottomless bog?
Don

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Originally Posted by Don 130

Are you able to jack it up with airbag or high lift and put planks under the wheels to aid the recovery, or are you in a bottomless bog?
Don

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Hi Don

I will have a go at getting maxtracks under it on the weekend using the airbag but it just keeps raining! The high lift jack would just disappear into the bog.

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The high lift jack would just disappear into the bog.

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Put some rope on the maxtracks otherwise they will dissapear into the mire as well[thumbsupbig]