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how do you connect the electrics up on the chipper? is it easy enough?

 

Yeah - the winchmax come with everything in the box. Depending on where your chipper battery is you may need longer battery leads making up (any auto electrician will be able to supply you the cables with correctly crimped terminals). Just attach positive direct to positive battery terminal and negative direct to negative battery terminal. If you want to include an isolator make sure you get as heavy duty as possible - the ones with the red plastic key can melt if you are doing a lot of winching... The only issue we have ever had is with a bad earth on the little earth wire that comes out of the control/solenoid box - this stops everything working and give the impression that the winch is goosed.

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How do these electric winches fair on chippers? I've used quite a few 12v, bumper mounted winches and they are great for 5 minutes use for self recovery but for continuous/repetitive use I found they kept burning out the components.

 

I'd of thought a hydraulic winch would be more suited.

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How do these electric winches far on chippers? I've used quite a few 12v, bumper mounted winches and they are great for 5 minutes use for self recovery but for continuous/repetitive use I found they kept burning out the components.

 

I'd of thought a hydraulic winch would be more suited.

 

They're good, but will quickly kill a weak battery. We've only ever burned out a Warn - these cheap Winchmax jobbies haven't given up yet (and have had a lot of constant abuse). Hydraulic would be better for constant duty but are no good for self recovery with a dead engine, and are more expensive/complex to fit in the first place.

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