Timber/tractor winch

[tractor dave]

Hi guys,

I've been looking for a timber/tractor winch for a bit now to fit on the 3PL, can anyone recommend one (classic/old/new), i want to do be able to pull trees over and winch them out so a good comprimise between speed and pull would be good. I was thinking PTO driven as most tractors have pto (the winch might be fitted to different era tractors), although i guess there are advantages to hydraulic? Does anyone know of any up for sale, i dont mind if work needs to be done to it (infact a project would keep me out for trouble )!

Cheers

Dave

[elfinwood saws]

Bought this old boatyard winch for £50 off ebay, with a bit of work made it fit the 3 point linkage, had a stub of a pto bored and tapped to fit the input shaft of the winch, it has a 1 to 47 reduction so it is very slow, but controlable, done a few trial runs works spot on, so next job is to make all the guards and ground anchor . The money i saved buying this cheap winch bought us another tractor.

[rammer]

Try Burnley auctions..our old farma winch will be heading that wayin the next week or so ..would be a good purchase.

[tractor dave]

That looks grand! What have you done for a clutch?

I'll keep a look out for that winch, thanks for the heads up!

[elfinwood saws]

just uses the pto clutch of the tractor and got a length of yacht furling line fastened to the stop on the pump and there is always 2 of us when winching.But i,m sure an idiot would manage to hurt themselves with this winch.

[Tom D]

You cant beat an igland, they seem to come up on ebay now and again.

[Brushcutter]

Iglands are the rolls royce of forestry skidding winches. They keep their money quite well though. Farmi winches pop up on ebay quite frequently. If yiu want a new one then look at the uniforest ones they're well made, strong pull and full of features and VERY reasonably priced.

[woody1]

I have a Fransgard, double drum, 3t per drum. Its fairly quick, has a good height on the butt plate for skidding but it wont handle large stuff! Ok on medium sized logs though. Overall i'm fairly impressed with it. Not a patch on an Igland but then it wasn't Igland money!

[Supernube]

Can somebody please explain to me how tractor HP corresponds to winching....any winching Ive ever done or seen being done...the tractor always sits there on tick over and they pull fine ?

Please explain

Thanks

[spuddog0507]

1 hour ago, Supernube said:

Can somebody please explain to me how tractor HP corresponds to winching....any winching Ive ever done or seen being done...the tractor always sits there on tick over and they pull fine ?

Please explain

Thanks

i will do my best as its very simple, basically its down to gearing like the pic above small sprocket on drive end the a much bigger sprocket on the receiving end , most pto winches 540 rpm in and about 50 rpm out , our igland 4201 retrieves the line at 0.9 mtrs a second and will still do that when there is a couple of tonne on the end and it takes some effort to keep up with it across a woodland thats got brash every where, if you are going to buy one buy new if you have the work for it or pm him about the one above that he is taking to burnley auction.