Best hand winch?

[Haironyourchest]

HiI have a tirfor clone too, (0.8 ton) more than happy with it. For the fast, long pull it's king. More often though I'll use my chain lever puller, 0.75 ton, with upgraded 4 meter chain. The whole package it small and relatively light for nearly the same power as the tirfor, no need to worry about kinking the chain, or damaging the chain with abrasion. No fear of cable jaggers. It is slower though, and limited reach, but I pair it with a 30m dyneema winch rope and the 4m of travel the puller affords has never not been enough to pull a leaner over. I made my puller, dyneema rope, dyneema sling, chain choker, various shackles etc all fit in a metal box bolted to the floor of my van. This set-up is always with me, and has got me van out of the mud a few times. The puller was from William Hackett UK, they very affordable, but the extra long chain can be spendy., But it was special galvinized German chain. If you go for a generic 8mm chain China import, chain is cheap.

[billpierce]

Yes the jet hoist any other Chinese tirfors are good. But a serious pita to shift about. Even the little 1.6t one I have doesn't come out to play much since I bought the 4t puller

[Acer Forestry]

On 25/11/2017 at 08:23, TheHungrySquirrel said:

What about getting a few cheap pulleys bud making a 5:1 system?

You can explain all about it Saturday Will....

[Acer Forestry]

Have just bought a cheapo Machine Mart 2 ton job from ebay, will be fine for now. Like the look of the Lug-alls on ebay, they aren't really that pricey to be fair even with carriage from US