Hydraulic winch on a tracked chipper anyone done it?

[mitchel]

Hello,

 

Just trying to find out if it would be hard to mount a hydraulic winch on a chipper versus a 12v type

 

Thanks

Mitchel

[Jase hutch]

GreenMech have done it on a 19-28 SafeTrack for Germany , compared to an electric winch it was slow.

[mitchel]

25 minutes ago, Jase hutch said:

GreenMech have done it on a 19-28 SafeTrack for Germany , compared to an electric winch it was slow.

surely be faster than an electric one hydraulic is usually faster

[Mick Dempsey]

Not ime.

 

Just bolt on an electric one, much easier.

[woody paul]

9 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Not ime.

 

Just bolt on an electric one, much easier.

And cook you battery if used for long pull. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Just now, woody paul said:

And cook you battery if used for long pull. 

I had an electric winch on a couple of 4wd, on long repeated pulls (pulling branches out of a lake) it sometimes overheated and stopped, always started again after a cool down, never cooked a battery, of course I ran the engine on TO all the time.

 

The hydraulic on the Land Rover was good but very slow, repeated pulls you die of boredom.

 

If you want speed you need pto powered. 

[woody paul]

Got an electric winch on landy and it do's battery in quicker then normal use. Has a chipper got a big enough alternator to keep up with supply need any way.

There are a couple of hydraulic winch's out there which will pull you off your feet as they are fast. 

[Khriss]

No reason why you cannot tap into the hydraulic flow on yr rollers. However flow and pressure rates are crucial RE the sort of winch you buy. K

[David Cardiff]

You could possibly put a piggy back pump on just for the winch and share the hydraulic tank

with a 2/3  cetop valve and buttons to control the winch 

[spuddog0507]

1st things first is the pump a vane/gear pump or a piston pump ? 2 different pumps with 2 different working pressures, check working pressure on chipper and then check pressure on your selected winch, being a tracked chipper it is most likley to be the higher pressure piston pump but it may all so have a gear pump on the end of the piston pump allowing 2 different working pressures on same machine ,