Hydraulic winch

[Coppertops]

Looking at putting a Hydraulic Winch on my Wolf tracked 230. Does anyone have recommendations on Hydraulic winches on chippers ? 

[Mike Hill]

@josharb87 had one for years,hope he can chime in.

[AHPP]

Emphatically, do it. A guy I work for has an electric one. Handiest thing ever. 

[josharb87]

Not on a Timberwolf, (they wouldn’t entertain the idea of hydraulic and I wouldn’t entertain the idea of electric)

 

But I had a 3,5t one on my Jensen, can’t remember the make, American, Ramsey perhaps?

 

if you’re spending a bit of dough in a winch and plate etc have a serious thought about going remote controlled - that’d really be the icing on the cake!
got a remote controlled hydraulic winch on my wee forwarder, improves winching efficiency immensely 

 

where are you planning to mount it? Under or above the hopper? Mine Was mounted low down under the hopper, brilliant for heavy work, pulling trees over, skidding whole trees, logs etc.

 

 there’s a Norwegian firm that supplies brackets to hold the winch over the hopper for dragging, less capacity, faster and remote controlled - good for dragging bundles of brash and tops straight up into the hopper 

[josharb87]

[woody paul]

19 minutes ago, josharb87 said:

have a serious thought about going remote controlled - that’d really be the icing on the cake!

Not got winch on chippers but have one on land rover fitted with remote, complete game changer when using on your own, if you need more slack it just push button and you got it. 

[Mike Hill]

I have a Warn 5000lb winch on my Jensen. Had a winch on there since 2010.

 

Hydraulic would be grand for many winch cycles but electric works for me.

[Coppertops]

1 hour ago, josharb87 said:

Not on a Timberwolf, (they wouldn’t entertain the idea of hydraulic and I wouldn’t entertain the idea of electric)

 

But I had a 3,5t one on my Jensen, can’t remember the make, American, Ramsey perhaps?

 

if you’re spending a bit of dough in a winch and plate etc have a serious thought about going remote controlled - that’d really be the icing on the cake!
got a remote controlled hydraulic winch on my wee forwarder, improves winching efficiency immensely 

 

where are you planning to mount it? Under or above the hopper? Mine Was mounted low down under the hopper, brilliant for heavy work, pulling trees over, skidding whole trees, logs etc.

 

 there’s a Norwegian firm that supplies brackets to hold the winch over the hopper for dragging, less capacity, faster and remote controlled - good for dragging bundles of brash and tops straight up into the hopper 

Would be mounted under the feed hopper. Don’t like the idea of a electric winch eating batteries and over heating if we wanted use it often on a job

[monkeybusiness]

Have a look at winchmax - they sell decent kit and are good to deal with.

[woody paul]

2 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

Have a look at winchmax - they sell decent kit and are good to deal with.

Second that, have one on land rover, but their winch's are slow. You will need to check line speed under load to get a winch that is fast enough.