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Advice needed re cable pulling winch


Tony Parker
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On 05/05/2020 at 13:57, blackeyeler said:

I have found a reference to the rope  7x19 IWRC 103 metre from Rope Services direct. Is this suitable for Igland 55?

Yes - 7 strands - one as central core and the other 6 laid up around the independent wire rope core - each strand consisting of 19 sub-strands - good general purpose wire rope with good wear & deformation resistance

 

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On 05/05/2020 at 10:29, blackeyeler said:

I'll take it that logs jamming in and against stumps during retrieval will also put undue tension /torsion on the rope?

Logs jamming against stumps will cause an increase in tension - but since your wire is sized for first layer pull it will not be undue unless you go at it bald headed - what it will do is cause a rip-down on the winch drum if there is loose laid wire to rip down into.

 

What will cause a sharp rise in tension is getting a log moving and horsing it into a stump with the winch flat out

 

The tension in the wire tries to straighten out the strands - if you put a swivel on the end this effect will be magnified as the swivel allows the wire to unlay.

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Oddly enough, or not, but over my 10 odd years of use and abuse of the 5t Krpan, which is still on its origonal rolled steel rope, I can still pull the 10mm? wire rope out without much difficulty, despite more than once winching until I stalled the 84HP DB1490 tractor,(OK only ticking over on the 1000 shaft setting) and then having to release with a hellauva "sproing", and not always carefully respooling afterwards(and I got a big kink on the drum somewhere just recent)

So was the rolled steel wire rope on the Krpan better quality?

mth

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  • 2 weeks later...

When yr oiling it - the fibre core absorbs a lil oil which helps. I used to run my rope through an old mop head to clean it , then nother mop head soaked in oil if kit was going in store fr a bit.  Plus having a spare pulley to drag yr rope right out n rewind under tension is good practice ( pulley on a tree an shackle end on tractor n wind in with a bit of hand brake on  ) k

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