Which Hand Winch.........

[Mac McLennan]

I have a hand winch (2 ton)

 

But I am after a small hand winch which is 'less effort' to deploy.

 

You know.......The tree that probrably don't need winching but you just want to be sure.

 

What do you use.

[Andy Collins]

Got to be a tirfor, simply the best hand-winch out there. Yes, handwinches seem slow, but efficient they certainly are.

[Dean Lofthouse]

They are a pain to deploy but the little hand wire winches are useless.

 

I have a tirfor but also one of those cheapie turfor copies off ebay, I have given it some right pasty and it has come up with the goods every time, can't fault them.

[Marc]

You know.......The tree that probrably don't need winching but you just want to be sure.

 

What do you use.

 

In that case i'd use a carters hitch which is easily set-up on a single pull line (does'nt work to well with 3 strand),

Or a compact fiddle block, I have 2 small isc double pulleys one with a becket, ready set-up on some 10mm rope its light and takes up little space.

[Jamie]

We have a big tirfor which is heavy and harder to set up or a lugall which is the dogs dandys i think.

 

Jamie

[Marc]

Or a grcs it may be twice the price of a tirfor but more versatile

[treejumper]

Lug-all does the job - and is compact, comparatively light and durable (and you can also buy direct from the manufacturers) - link below :-)

 

http://www.metreel.co.uk/metreel_lugall.htm

[bill]

In that case i'd use a carters hitch which is easily set-up on a single pull line (does'nt work to well with 3 strand),

Or a compact fiddle block, I have 2 small isc double pulleys one with a becket, ready set-up on some 10mm rope its light and takes up little space.

 

got any pics?

[Marc]

got any pics?

 

The only pic I have, i'll have to look on the web for better tying instructions.

 

I tied the the old climbing line on the top of a Beech trunk just out of shot, which was right agaisnt a fence and between shrubs and stuff, so we had to bore cut it, and its closeness to the fence made wedging/levering it over a little tricky.

 

I've put a pulley in the system, you don't have to do that a biner will do or even feed the rope through the loop, the other part out of shot goes through another pulley attached to a tree then back through this pulley, so 2 pulleys in all for good advantage.

[Marc]

This is not the same hitch but it is a knot that will do the same thing.

 

You will be shown how to tie the knot by the world expert in tying a truckers hitch.

 

http://www.expertvillage.com/video/14327_knot-trucker.htm