Thread: Help with County PTO winch!!!

Tim,
Just a thought (another one). Is it possible that the winch itself is an electric one that has ben modified to PTO type and maybe it turned in the opposite direction originally or the other possibility is maybe it has been dismantled and reassembled with the worm drive put in in the opposite direction. Whatever it is the problem is in the winch itself not the gearbox or PTO unit. I noticed it has a hand crank adaptor on the front for a crank handle - from memory I think this mod was only available on the electric models in case you had a electic motor failure or flat battery.

Originally Posted by Bearman

Tim,
Just a thought (another one). Is it possible that the winch itself is an electric one that has ben modified to PTO type and maybe it turned in the opposite direction originally or the other possibility is maybe it has been dismantled and reassembled with the worm drive put in in the opposite direction. Whatever it is the problem is in the winch itself not the gearbox or PTO unit. I noticed it has a hand crank adaptor on the front for a crank handle - from memory I think this mod was only available on the electric models in case you had a electic motor failure or flat battery.

The Thomas PTO winch I had came with a crank handle which had a uni joint & collar that fitted over that male fitting. I tried it once- pretty hard work & slow too. You needed to have it in neutral gear.

Originally Posted by Bearman

Tim,
Just a thought (another one). Is it possible that the winch itself is an electric one that has ben modified to PTO type and maybe it turned in the opposite direction originally or the other possibility is maybe it has been dismantled and reassembled with the worm drive put in in the opposite direction. Whatever it is the problem is in the winch itself not the gearbox or PTO unit. I noticed it has a hand crank adaptor on the front for a crank handle - from memory I think this mod was only available on the electric models in case you had a electic motor failure or flat battery.

Thanks for all your help Brian
It could be converted for all we know, can anyone confirm if only the electric thomas winches came with the hand crank?

Thanks in advance!!

No problem Tim, it will be interesting to find out what is causing it to rotate the wrong way............Brian

Tim
You've got a bottom feed winch set up with a top feed fairlead,there's two ways to fix your problem.1st is to move your fairlead to the bottom and wrap the winch cable from the bottom,2nd is to get the other worm and wheel from winch industries(pretty sure thats the name) in brisbane.I've had both top and bottom feeders before and both are equally as good as each other,it all depends whether you want your fairlead high or low.There's nothing wrong with your pto unit and the chain can't be fitted wrong.
Cheers Eric.

Originally Posted by long stroke

Thanks for all your help Brian
It could be converted for all we know, can anyone confirm if only the electric thomas winches came with the hand crank?

Thanks in advance!!

my pto has a crank handle thingy

Originally Posted by THE 109

Tim
You've got a bottom feed winch set up with a top feed fairlead,there's two ways to fix your problem.1st is to move your fairlead to the bottom and wrap the winch cable from the bottom,2nd is to get the other worm and wheel from winch industries(pretty sure thats the name) in brisbane.I've had both top and bottom feeders before and both are equally as good as each other,it all depends whether you want your fairlead high or low.There's nothing wrong with your pto unit and the chain can't be fitted wrong.
Cheers Eric.

Thanks Eric
Problem solved!!
Thats a bit of a bugger though, it will stick down a fair bit the other way around
Might have to look into the other worm and wheel from winch industries
Thanks again!!
P.s is this the mob?
http://www.winch.com.au/winch/home/home.html

CHEERS TIM.

The bottom feed setup sounds right.Coming from a rangie it would fitt better having it bottom feed
A Thomas will work as well in either direction as they have no forward or reverse as to the way they are built.even the electric one can run either way.
Mr Thomas the son of the bloke who invented it is very helpfull.
Give him a call (07) 3875 1568 .
The other thing to make sure it that a warn winch style won't work properly, as they are to narrow (they are to narrow for warns as well).