Where to put a winch

**cartm58** · 2nd August 2007, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by jimbo110

Some of us DO ACTUALLY USE our winches. mine is $900 chinese one. I used mine on saturday night to pull a 70 series cruiser out of a rapidly rising river. Yes I could have used a turfor to pull him up the 4 meters from the river:

Park truck
Get turfor out of back of the truck
Get cable out of the back of the truck
unwind cable from holder
Thread cable through turfor
Untangle the knots in the cable now all over the ground
connect cable to the truck in the river
Move the turfor along the cable to the right place to attatch the hook on the turfor to my truck
Move the lever back and forth for 20 minutes and strain my guts out
Pull the truck to level ground and detatch turfor
Wind up the cable into the holder (after untangling 30m of cable all over the ground)
Put cable back in truck
Put turfor back in truck
Go to doctor for hernia operation

What did happen:

Park truck
Unlock winch
Walk down to truck, unspooling as we go
Plug in winch controler
Lock winch
Pull truck from river (with big smile on my face

)
Unhook cruiser and spool in rest of winch rope
Unplug remote
Give **** to my mate in the cruiser the whole way home on the radio

And above all no hospital visit, saving $1,000s, or cruiser ending up out at sea with my mates family in it

That was my point ------------ whether you need a winch at all and what sort depends on what you the individual actually uses your truck for and how often are you in situations where its going to be used.

As for you saving a cruiser - well whats one less cruiser in the world really going to do

Derek Carlisle · 2nd August 2007, 12:33 PM

Hi, using a highlift as a winch would take forever. By the time you got the cable taught it would be time to start again. I've used my Turfor 516 to unbog my landy, extending the handle with a bit of pipe for more leverage and used a snatch block, to reduce the load. On my 2a/3 hybrid I have a fairly old Warn highmount winch 8000lb. Used with a snatch pulley block or without, it's the ducks guts in comparison to the other two.
Consider how much you will use these things, maybe buy a couple of snatch straps, and go on trips with mate's. Oh and have a look at an exarmy 101 forwardcontrol and check out the winch set up. It operates back & front.
Cheers Derek

MT · 2nd August 2007, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by mcrover

Tell that to the bloke that slipped his car off the side of the road on Mt Stirling about 8 years ago while winching it back onto the road with a Tirfor and when the cable went as the Patrol was being pulled from the front, back slid out and slackened the cable and then went backward down the hill, snapped the cable tight and took half his leg with it when it broke.

.

You have not disproved my point. The fact that the guy operating the tirfor did so in what obviously appears to be an unsafe fashion (or alternatively, did not have a clue) has nothing to do with whether a tirfor is 'more dangerous' or not. Any D*&^head can hurt himself (or bystanders) with any piece of kit if he doesn't use it right.

**camel_landy** · 3rd August 2007, 06:30 AM

....and actually, even with an electric winch you should be keeping an eye on the way it's spooling onto the drum.

M

**camel_landy** · 3rd August 2007, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by cartm58

well all good points made but no one seems to have asked how often you going to use the winch.

We didn't ask coz otherwise the thread would never end...

Personally, I only tend to use the winch a couple of times a year... If that.

Jimbo... Using a rope would have been even quicker to get your mate out of the river.

M

**jimbo110** · 3rd August 2007, 07:20 AM

Originally Posted by camel_landy

We didn't ask coz otherwise the thread would never end...

Personally, I only tend to use the winch a couple of times a year... If that.

Jimbo... Using a rope would have been even quicker to get your mate out of the river.

M

The first meter was almost vertical, a very heavy and delicate situation, not the place for a rope or snatch strap.

**camel_landy** · 4th August 2007, 04:05 AM

Originally Posted by jimbo110

The first meter was almost vertical...

Hmmm... Maybe your mate needs to be taught the Land Rover mantra:

Look, Risk Assess and then Drive

...and not the other way around.

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