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1 hour ago, felixthelogchopper said:

If you do go down the Tirfor route, have a look at Ace winches. Every bit as good IMO and much cheaper.

Yes looked at them and TMax. I'm sure they are inferior to Tirfor but as you say much cheaper but probably all Chinese manufacture which could be OK or could be terrible! All depends on what loads one expects them to handle. Tirfor seem to last but even on eBay beyond my budget.

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Just now, Peter Simpson said:

Yes looked at them and TMax. I'm sure they are inferior to Tirfor but as you say much cheaper but probably all Chinese manufacture which could be OK or could be terrible! All depends on what loads one expects them to handle. Tirfor seem to last but even on eBay beyond my budget.

I have an Ace 1600kg model which get used commercially on a regular basis and it has performed perfectly. Don't dismiss it just because it's not called Tirfor. :)

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Do you have a water source at the top of the hill? If so, you could rig an endless skyline, fill a  counterweight barrell (with a screw cap) and use that to assist the raising of equally weighty prices of wood. Then empty the barrell at the bottom. There would be a lot of walking up and down the hill though, unless you had a massive barrel.

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6 hours ago, jamallio96 said:
On 18/07/2018 at 08:11, Peter Simpson said:
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire

Whereabouts in Fishguard? I live just up the road in Newport and enjoy this sort of problem solving ?

I live on a farm at Cilshafe Uchaf which is on the side of the Gwaun Valley overlooking Fishguard on the way to Dinas. Very welcome to visit and study the conundrum!

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2 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:
On 17/07/2018 at 21:38, Peter Simpson said:
Interesting! The kamikaze approach! 

You did say you wanted it cheap and efficient idea. Pully £20, blue pollyprop rope £20, and about 100 times faster than any hand winch..

Very kind but the slope is so perilous and precipitous I would wind up doing myself serious injury!

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