Thread: every thing about winches

What brand? I get emails form Taiwan offering these all the time. Need to check the quality esp of the brake! Also parts availability and serviceability. It will need a service at some stage.
Skiboy

its one of there OX winches, they ok???

I don't know as not had one so will need to get people to post up about their experiences with OX
As I understand it a lot of these are rebranded made in China/Taiwan product. I think I was being offered them at about $180 AUD a unit plus freight. Which is what these places must pay if they then add freight and a margin.

If you PM me your email address I will send you the PDF of the offer so you can compare.

tho i fully agree that prity much most of the winch for sale are just a copy of each other, iv been told, would you trust 300$ of cheap china been the only thing holding your car from brink of extinction?? so that has kinda made me thing well yer, if i buy a main stream winch, fitted buy them and with fully warranty, i have alot to fall back onto?

new Q for everyone, the new rave for winches is the rope instead of cable,

is rope realy that much better then cable?? despite been very light

There seems to be several advantages to me. The obvious one is the weight of course. Because of this it is also much easier to spool out. The biggest advantage, to my mind, is that the rope essentially stores no energy. Cut a synthetic winch rope under full load and it will just drop to the ground. No whipping or flying back. Another advantage is that it is much kinder to your hands with no 'steel splinters'. Some synthetic winch ropes also float and this could be an advantages in a watery recovery.

There are disadvantages though. They are not as robust and need to be looked after more carefully than a steel rope. They are heat sensitive and as such are not suitable for some winches. They are expensive.

All that aside, they have been used in the marine industry for many years and proven to be up to the job.

Cheers
KarlB

well tonite fitted a new 12.000lb tiger11 winch, fitted rite in perfect and all wired up nicely(only just on the +side, allways get to much cable) very happy with the way it looked built and had a qwick look inside and plenty of grease and twin double lipped water seals

now have to go try it out

Originally Posted by Bearman

That would have to be a Thomas 8000lb. As far as I know they are the only manufacturer that offered a hand crank as an optional extra. I used to have an electric EW8000 model which I bought new and specified the hand crank as well. I used it once to try it out and it was relatively easy but as slow as watching grass grow. Decided there and then that the hand crank would only be used in dire circumstances. Handle can easily be made up by slotting a bit of correct size pipe on 1 end and weld a small uni like a steering column one on the other with a crank welded to it. I forgot to mention that there are hydraulic winches as well but they are rare on 4bys, mainly used on tow trucks etc where they have a hyd pto pump on the gearbox. Winch itself is the same as a pto type except is has a hyd motor instead of a shaft drive.

Yep, just thought I'd throw up a picture of my winch so others can see the hand crank (HC) side of it. It is a Thomas Winch from Winch Industries EW8000HC. When I got this, the previous owner thought it was a PTO/electric winch. Posting on this site I realised what it was I had bought. I like it. The elctric side is fast enough for me and also pulls logs for firewood. The HC side of it is slow but it is better than walking out when the electric fails... I also use the HC for slow log work like turning large logs over etc

These pictures are when I first got it home. I have since cleaned it up considerably and re-oiled it. According to Maurice Thomas (through emails to/from him), the original oil spec is ATF in the spur gear side and 90 weight gear oil in the worm drive.