Thread: Hand winches???

Does it have to be a hand winch?
Some elec winches are getting cheaper now (800-900) and a hell of a lot better to use than a hand winch.
Maybe even search the Trading Post for both cheap electric winches or a hand winch. Sometimes they pop up there.

Dave [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

Hi MacMan

I have a Big Haul ( Actually got it from Duncans ) 2500kg model

Bloody good winch.... bloody hard work 8O 8O

Great incentive to carry it around incase ------ and Try REAL hard not to need it [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

I think you might find if you put the sqeeze on the price might be flexible ... I can't remember what I paid but it was over $100 off the average ticket price - but was around the time of the wd show - so might have been a show price.

I would recomend them...... just need to teach SWMBO to use it now

Originally posted by Bytemrk

I would recomend them...... just need to teach SWMBO to use it now

If your holding classes, I will send my lovely wife along too [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

Originally posted by RobG65+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RobG65)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Bytemrk

I would recomend them...... just need to teach SWMBO to use it now

If your holding classes, I will send my lovely wife along too [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] [/b][/quote]

Di is keen on being held responsible for your actions--
in this case--
YOU got us in here,, YOU get us out!!

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My Girlie isn't afraid of work, but I think she too would subscribe to the "you got us here, you get us out" theory.

This is not something I plan on having to use, but it beats walking (and the angry eyes from afore mentioned Girlie) if we do get stuck.

One day I came home from work and my wife asked me to have a look in the boot (in the days before she had a RR). I opened the boot of her car, and there, cradled in a blanket like a little baby was a capstan winch for my SIII 8O [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] - I love my wife so much.

Anyway, all I'm saying is - perhaps you won't have to make the decision. Maybe your other half reads your aulro correspondence (like mine) and will get a good idea :wink:

Good Luck.

Now thats an understanding partner, I have to hide most of these purchases in the boot under a blanket 8O

i have a big haul hand winch.
Works great, hard work but for only $450 it will get me out of anything an electric winch will and it will easily pull to rear or side. I am now looking for ideas on how best to store it and the cable in the rangie, so i have easy access to it all the time. Probly build some draws.
If your on a tight budget like many of us, you carnt loose!