Thread: County PTO winch install+ home made bar.

Originally Posted by cal415

Nice work, I like the angled pipe work!

Thanks Cal
I was abit worried at how it was going to look at one stage but it turned out pretty god IMO

CHEERS TIM.

Spotties and new arial hooked up and mounted





Also the winch is almost completly hooked up, last weeked we properly mounted the shafts to the chassis and re greased and oiled everything!
Got the G'box PTO drive back from being modified aswell today
We got the whole unit extended 2''s and are going to rotate it down do acheive a much better shaft route

The extended bit..



So all there is to do now is tenshin the chain in the PTO drive and drill,tap, file and cut afew holes and she will be done finaly

CHEERS TIM.

Well it's all done, it even works apart from the fact that it's a bottam winding winch and not a top like most, so to pull cable in we have to use reverse gear, and we have 4 forward gears to wind it out.
Will get it fixed oneday when we can find a top winding worm gear.
For now we will just have to use reverse on the winch, bloody slow but will keep pulling until the chassis rips in half
Anyone got a spare PTO winch that we could scab the Worm wheel drive out of

TIM.

what are the advantages of going with a PTO as opposed to a electric. Good work BTW. Keep the pics coming.. How about a pic of the winch being used in anger!

Originally Posted by klappers

what are the advantages of going with a PTO as opposed to a electric. Good work BTW. Keep the pics coming.. How about a pic of the winch being used in anger!

Thanks Klappers!
The advantages of a PTO winch in my opinion are the strength and reliability, they arn't real quick but will pull anything, and aparently a standard PTO will pull up hills non stop all day as long as they aren't being reved to hard
I might get a pick or a vid of it working when we use it again

CHEERS TIM.

Some pto's love being revved hard all day long and stay cool
But not a thomas as the friction tends to cook the oil when worked hard.
Tim-PM sent.
Eric

Originally Posted by THE 109

Some pto's love being revved hard all day long and stay cool
But not a thomas as the friction tends to cook the oil when worked hard.
Tim-PM sent.
Eric

Haha, your PTO is faster than the county all togethor

Originally Posted by klappers

what are the advantages of going with a PTO as opposed to a electric.

• so long as your motor is running you can winch all day
• 4 x varible winch in speed, you use your gears and accelerator
• no battery drain
• no over heating of electric motors

• the only thing i haven't checked out is the shear pin i.e. how hard it it to replace mid way through winching

recently i had to take over recovering a mates car as his hydraulic winch connect to his power steering was struggling........oh and due to the angle combined with his main tank being nearly empty the car was running out of fuel due to the pickup spot