Chainsaw winches

[doobin]

On that Lewis winch, it says it pulls 4000 lb on a 3/16 cable. Do they mean 2 tons on a 3/16" (4.8 mm) cable?

 

I'd be interested to know what sort of cable they use, and what sort of safety factor they're working to. The only cables of that diameter I've seen have minimum breaking loads of around 2 tonnes.

 

I presume that's with a snatch block rather than a straight line pull.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

What is the normal lengths of cable on these various makes of chainsaw winches?

 

New costings of complete unit without a saw would be helpful.

[Quickthorn]

I presume that's with a snatch block rather than a straight line pull.

 

That link says 8000 lb with a snatch block, so it looks like they're saying 4000lb straight line.

[Rich Rule]

One of the guys I work for has a Lewis winch. Brilliant piece of kit on the right job.

[daveindales]

Iv'e got a lewis winch and run it off a 372. It will only pull the 8000 pounds with a 90cc saw, through a snatch block. I find the 372 fine. I had a few problems with their wire rope, so got myself some dynema rope of the net, reels in a lot better than the wire rope. great for pulling timber out of awkward places and for pulling the chipper about in tight places. very useful piece of kit. great for quick simple pulling of small trees. But stick with the tirfor if pulling over large trees.

[Chris Sheppard]

Been thinking about a chainsaw winch for a while as I think it could come in handy for some of the thinning we end up doing where most of it is shortwooded from stump but there's often a few bits that need pulling into reach and trailing the tractor and winch down is sometimes a bit overkill, but quicker than tirforing or dragging with the crane and a selection of strops.

 

Anyway, I've just picked up some work on a site I was last at 4/5 years ago (maybe more) when I still had the Carraro. It's a long valley with some real nice Larch and there's a fair bit of smaller diameter firewood grown up in among it that's been drawn up - probably very little over 12" diameter and mostly 8-10"

 

In the past we've cut it fairly short and hoyed it downhill to the track but some of it's a bit too wide for it and also some of it would be better off uphill.

 

I'm thinking a chainsaw winch would be a useful addition to the fleet and think it could be one of those things that gets brought out more than I'd have first expceted.

 

So far, the Lewis seems to have had nothing but praise and seems to be the cheapest too (about £860 inc vat) but I've no experience of using one.

 

Are they up to doing a reasonable amount of skidding on smaller poles? Are they much cop at pulling out hangers?

 

I'd probably give it a try as a haulback line for when we're doing banksides with the tractor winch too -interested to hear if anyones tried it and how well it went.

[b101uk]

On that Lewis winch, it says it pulls 4000 lb on a 3/16 cable. Do they mean 2 tons on a 3/16" (4.8 mm) cable?

 

I'd be interested to know what sort of cable they use, and what sort of safety factor they're working to. The only cables of that diameter I've seen have minimum breaking loads of around 2 tonnes.

 

 

4000lb = 2 ton US,

 

i.e. short ton and NOT long ton, as ton in the UK is long (~1016kg), while metric tonne is the 1000kg one noted by the speling.

[s o c]

have alot of trees (mostly small) to drag back from streams in areas where machines cant reach. do i need any special ticket to operate a chainsaw winch ?

large utility job, need method statement for everything

[treepanda]

I have a lewis winch, I run it on an old Stihl 024 and changed the wire rope to dyneema, no sprags, no crushing the rope when you wind the rope in and it makes it a bit lighter to carry about. I have used it to pull ute and chipper onto site, pull over some pretty butty trees.

 

I would like one of the Honda capstan winches so I can use whatever rope I have at hand but they are $1600 USD

[geoff]

Heres a link to the lewis,theres a uk dealer listed in there too.

 

Welcome to Lewis Winch

 

 

 

Listed uk dealer;

 

WJ Green Ltd

7 Lady Lane Industrial Estate

Hadleigh Ipswich Suffolk IP7 6BQ UK

Tel: 01473 823839 Fax: 01473 824999

Email: [email protected]

http://www.wjgreen.co.uk

Edited October 8, 2012 by geoff