12v winches? Yay or nay

[swinny]

Got a job comming up with 4 leaning willows to fell. These have leans (slight) in the opposite direction of felling.

 

Just wondering if any of the 12V winches are any good? How do they attatch etc?

 

Cheers Chris

[swinny]

Only anchor would be back of truck....

 

Or should i just get a fresh cable for my tirfur.... hmmmm

[woody paul]

How big are the willows. This will determen the size winch you need advice on.

[treequip]

I have a warn 8274 which I have abused for many years, it has yet to let me down, this is one of this years, episodes, where we winched a bit of sycamore onto ed's trailer, it will do must fine for pulling the odd tree over but don't expect huge endurance

 

 

 

 

[swinny]

approx 28" dia pollarded at 45-50ft with 15-20ft re growth...

 

3 of them are straight ish, one of them has more of a lean...

 

seen an old thread about my tirfur, and it says it had swl 30ctw, its an 11mm cable (Just needs replacing)

 

Cheers

 

worst one has approx 70-80 degree lean opposite to fell.... not really bad but still a lean

[Billy]

Should pull the, fine as long as the truck has some grip.

[woody paul]

Sound like a job for a tractor and winch not 1 hooked on the back of transit.

[swinny]

Should pull the, fine as long as the truck has some grip.

 

lol thats the thing its in a sports field.... trying to save taking my tractor... back to the drawing board

[woody paul]

4 willows of that size a lot of wood to clear so take tractor make it easy.

[pie eater pete]

Ha did Ed think that had finished his trailer off?...