Thread: Ox Hydraulic Winches

Dunno if they are still made but the Bamford hydraulic winch made here in Australia could be bought in damned near any strength you want the Ox only comes in 10000Lb doesnt it?

Mind you that will pull christ off the cross anyway. They are a good unit from what I here, can shear pins if over loaded

Blythe

Blitz, a big part of the appeal is there are no heating/rest period issues. I have heard that ultimately they may shorten the life of the power steer unit through extra load. As for load I'm chasing up the specs now. Will purchase within the next few weeks.

Miker.

maxi drive were making an auxilliary hydraulic pump that ran off the pto of your transfer case, with a higher output for just such an accessory as the hydraulic winches running off the P.S pump can be painfully slow

I have the Ox Hydraulic winch on my Defender. It is very low maintenece, will run underwater provided engine still going and pull all day BUT PAINFULLY SLOW. Consider running with hydraulic pump but then adds to big dollars.
For general duty I would recommend an electric winch unless you really feel the need for the big investment.

Our Dave has an OX winch on his Prado for the past five years. He's very happy with it and has no problems AFAIK.
He runs his from the power steering pump. Yes, very slow, but it's not used for comps so who cares...a fit and forget item.

Thanks. I tend to agree with STREAKY, if a 20min winch becomes a 40min winch I'm not too perturbed. As I said having done many hours on the hand winch over the past few years it's all good here. Appreciate the feedback. Still look'n to go the hydro. If the defenders engine isn't running given a diesel with a snorkel and water resist ECU's I don't reckon an electric will be of much use either.

Miker.

you can have some real fun with the hydraulic units and the best part is if you do a couple of cheap mods to the lines during setup you can expand your capabilites fairly easily without too much expense

after its all done head to a truck wreckers and get hold of the hyd power pack that drives a tailgate lifter. theres your auxillery elec back up.

next get a hydraulic pump off of a forklift and do 1 of 2 things with it

1. fit it in place of the existing powersteering pump or 2, mount it on a stock rear driving PTO for your tcase type and theres all the flow you could ever want.

and to make all this easily feasable all you have to do is fit a couple of check valves and t pieces to the existing lines that will be installed.

(oh and once youve got the winch you can add a blade to the front on a set of rams so that you can lower that in place to take the load off of your suspension when you sit yourself on top of the hill and winch everyone else up whose elec winches have let their smoke out.)

I dont think there is anything better than a Hyd. winch BUT if the engine is dead, so is your winch.

Depending on how often you winch, I would run an electric aux pump which can be cheaply built with a small starter motor and a power steering pump and some nuts bolts and a lathe this would mean you could run the winch with the engine not running.

Failing building your own, I may be able to source one for you and I would fit a PTO driven pump over running it off your pwr steer pump but thats up to you, it would be pumping oil regardless of weather or not you use it or not.