good man doing some research on yer own
everyone has a differing opinion - mine is
leccy winches are unreliable and only for lazy buggers with money to waste
high lifts are very good for straining wire, pulling roots, breaking beads and clamping wood while the glue sets - for winching and lifting heavy vehicles they are dangerous
whereas a tirfor style winch can be moved from vehicle to vehicle and will never let you down - however you will need to have had at least 3 shredded wheats before use
4 TON CABLE PULLER rope winch hoist turfer tirfor hook on eBay (end time 25-Sep-09 19:15:32 BST)
is this kinda think suitable?
is this kinda think suitable?
bevhelee
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don't be silly. i fitted my winch to my front bumper, just cut be bumper in two and with some plate and a welder made my own winch bumper, strong enough to, pull a rangie out of trouble the other week and yesterday pulled trees away from house when felling, in fact the winch was pulling the mota, so easily strong enough.
Not really. Their idea of 4 ton is the absolute max it can pull as a rolling load .. ie not a Landy that weighs up to 2 ton, stuck in mud that will create a vacuum when pulled of up to 5 ton ... These are for pulling small boats or caravans up ramps, or onto trailers, a rolling load, not a stuck one. They don't say that in their sales blurb.
A decent winch will allow a fair amount of safety margin and have an in-built, fail-to-safe- weak link, these don't! If they break when there's a load on then they fail, the load slips back and god-only knows what mess might occur.
By all means buy one as an emergency unit, but please, don't use it to winch a stuck Landy within miles of me .... and if you do use it and get anywhere near the breaking strain, then throw it away .. the tin-plate sides buckle and twist and are as likely to feck you up the next time you try to use it.
300tdistu
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3 TONNE TIRFOR .CW/ROPE AND HANDLE on eBay (end time 20-Sep-09 21:00:00 BST)
keep your eyes peeled and you might just grab a bargain
