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    WINCH ROPE LENGTH for comps

    Hello All
    can anyone tell me what sort of length of rope is used on winches in comps please ???

    thanks paul

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    As much as you can get on, we'v just mod'd 2 high mounts , extended

    winch drum, breathers 6HP motors rear braces should be able to get over

    2 hundred meters on do a google for warn high mout mods there are a lot

    of very good uk sites

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    thanks for that what sort of costs do people spend on rope that long ,,must be huge ???

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    Depends where you get it from, never buy winch rope from 4WD

    accessory shops ARB/TJM ect you pay through the nose look in the yellow

    pages for rigger supplies half the cost

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    Pulling power

    A point to remenber is the more rope you have on a winch drum, the lesser the pulling power on the outer layers, most pulling power is on the fist 1 or 2 layers of rope.
    Hodgo

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    Quote Originally Posted by hodgo View Post
    A point to remenber is the more rope you have on a winch drum, the lesser the pulling power on the outer layers, most pulling power is on the fist 1 or 2 layers of rope.
    Hodgo


    Unless you extend the drum ......that way the layers stay the same but

    the extra rope is spaced out on the longer drum....as was suggested

    above....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda View Post

    2 hundred meters
    200' even 200m would make for a scary big drum

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    Modded drums are often made with a smaller diameter, longer drum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bush65 View Post
    Modded drums are often made with a smaller diameter, longer drum.
    Try fit 200m on one

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    Elect Winch ???

    I have not had a lot of experence with electric winches, but the little that I do have left me with a bad opinion of elect winches. I found when used alot over a short space of time eg 2-3 time in about an hour at full length of rope they over heated and failure was very common fault .
    I did some driver training out in the oil fields of south west Qld some years ago useing Toyota Hilux's, and a 6x4 Nissan Patrol all fitted with Warn Winchs , The country was black soil and in the wet season any vehicles boged every easly often requiring 2 or 3 pulls at full lenght of cable to reach firm ground again if the winch lasted that long .
    My thoughts are that widening a drum my cause problems if used continuesley over a short time span.
    But some would say that I am old fashioned becouse I prefer a pto or hyd powered winch one of the best winchs that I have used is the capstan winch.

    Hodgo

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