Quote Originally Posted by Safari View Post
Hi all, I could be very confused with all this technical talk so to save some confusion I can give a simple example. I own 3 winches, 2 tirfors and a warn. I have used the tirfors for over 30 years. I have 2 different sizes a small one and a bigger one. (750kg & 1.5 I think ) The small one is a lot easier to lug around. When pulling tree stumps out if the little one gets too hard I put a snatch block on the the stump and return the other end of the cable back to the anchor point. Guess what the effort required on the handle is halved (approx) but it is slower to move the item. I may add that in over 30 years the tirfors get used more than the warn as they are used for moving other items around, power poles, lifting motors, steel beams, etc flying foxes etc. So to answer the initial question I would buy a tirfor first unless I was really old or was going looking for trouble regularly. Cheers Rob
This is how this argument/discussion over MA came about, I posted in another thread about using a snatch block attached to the load (or stump) with a Tirfor with the cable hooked back to the anchor point to get a MA of 2, i.e. 2 parts of rope SUPPORTING the MOVING block.
This said post was in another forum of a popular (don't know why) 4WD magazine and the flat earthers denounced me and I even had death threats, so I was out of there, much better treatment on this Forum, Thanks, Regards Frank.