Thread: tirfor

Shoot a PM Muddy to MickG... have a feeling he had one he was selling since putting on his electric one

Originally Posted by Outlaw

Shoot a PM Muddy to MickG... have a feeling he had one he was selling since putting on his electric one

Funny that

I have the Bighaul and have used it often.....

The reason Slunnie does not like it is he is a slightly undersized little eskimo and spent till 1am pulling a friedn out of the bush in the rain.....

Anyway really usefull for pulling sideways, putting cars back on their wheels and for safety when repairing cars on hillsides.

Originally Posted by aloa9061

I have the Bighaul and have used it often.....

The reason Slunnie does not like it is he is a slightly undersized little eskimo and spent till 1am pulling a friedn out of the bush in the rain.....

Anyway really usefull for pulling sideways, putting cars back on their wheels and for safety when repairing cars on hillsides.

This is the truth.

I still think that 2nd gear high range with right hand lock would have seen us out of there before it got dark and saved breaking an axle!

I used my Tirfor - once...

Now I have a Warn

Nathan

Why get electric when you can get the far cooler hydraulic option ? :P

why go hydraulic when you can have shaft driven....

why winch at all when you could just call in a silorsky super heavy lifter?

why call in a heavy lifter when you could just bolt on 5 or 6 JATO rockets and just jump jet the thing out of there...

why bother with the jump jets when you could just hire the space shuttle, tie a line to that have them drag that up to the moon and do an orbit or two then tie the other end to the landy and wait for the rotational differences in orbits to tension the rope and pull the rover out....

why bother with that when you could just wait it out and let environmental erosion and evolution remove the obstacle from around the landrover and then just drive it out..


or you could just buy a tirfor and do a little exercise....

I like the tirfor type winches... They're like the women i like Cheap, flexable and when Ive gotten what I want to get done with them done Im all smiles and sweat.

Originally Posted by Aaron

I have a 4.8t Big Haul. Its good quality IMO

Pics.




I got it from here.. Big Haul Hand Winch - Hand Winches - Winches & Accessories - 4x4 Store Australia


I bought it because I go out alone and I needed the versatility of being able to pull from any direction. Its not the effort required to use it thats the hard bit, Its the winding up of the 19mm steal cable thats the awkward/hard part. Im about to buy an old ride-on mower tyre that will just let me feed the cable into the centre of it, also it will make it easer to store in the car.

Another draw back would be getting stuck on a wet, rocky or muddy (or both) incline and having to set up in those situations. lugging the stuff to your winch point could be dangerous etc. At 20kg (for the winch) 25kg (for the cable) its light.

An Warn is only on my lists of "Wants" not "Needs" at this stage.

did you do the tyre thing for the cable ??
If so any pics