Very cool way of winching your Alaskan up the log

[Goaty]

  Bob Slade said:

Hi Goaty, i was playing with the idea of a nut, found one in an odds and sods container with a washer attached, simply ground down the nut, took the small bolt out and fed it in from the top with nut in the rails. the washer stops the nut from pulling through.

 

We get more advanced as the days go by. Nice idea. This will soon be like public free licence software version 2.5.6 etc Lets keep going.

[Rob D]

Yep keep it coming - I am going to forward it all to Granberg and see if they can come up with a winching kit.

 

 

But of course it will cost more than the DIY route.

 

 

[Theocus]

Here is my little winch. Fits perfectly with the spacer I made. I even spliced the rope at the end!! The red rope is a little whoopsie sling I made to wrap around either my skid steer or what ever is handy at the time!

[Theocus]

Dam predictive text on the iPad, I meant whoopie sling!!!

[Rob D]

Looks perfect dave - and actually I like the look of the smaller carbiners as well - much better and less cumbersome

[Mike Dempsey]

Well I now have my Alaskan with the winch bolted on it and the plan is to mill up 2 Norway Spruce logs. I would rather start on crap wood where is doesn't matter if I screw up rather than some nice oak!I have a customer who is wanting 2" thick slabs at 8' long. I am hoping to negotiate him down to about 1 1/2 inches max as I cant be arsed lifting the thicker planks. My winch came with the 4.5mm steel cable already on it and I bought some snap hooks at the local screwup direct. If this works ok I will try it on some oak next week.

[Rob D]

Good stuff Mike - see how the cable works but I think having the stretch in the cable is better as it evens the pull more.

 

 

[Mike Dempsey]

Had my first go with the winch this afternoon. Interesting experience. Don't know if I like using the wire cable as kind of unwinds itself a bit when there isn't any tension on it. Might take it off and replace with some rope. One thing I did like about it though was that my face wasn't in the path of the exhaust fumes and I don't have a sore back from leaning over and pushing the mill so they are definitely big pluses. I will continue the experiment. I managed to do six planks of Norway spruce which are 1.5 inches thick by 8 feet long with a max width of 18 inches. The finish on it wasn't as good as I expected despite it being a brand new Stihl ripping chain. All in all good fun though

[Rob D]

Looks good Mike - I like the anchor pulley although if you have a small strop that is anchored to the ground it sort of follows you down as you get lower to the ground and keeps a bit of tension over the long round handle.

 

 

A winch like this does make milling a whole new experience though!

 

 

[burrell_]

just court up

rob is the winch on ur mill that cheep £10.50 off ebay

(there was a link on this fourm

cheers martin