CS100 Winch mount

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

As with most things, if there's an easier way, I'm all for it. The gym isall good, but a winch on the front would make it a lot easier. I'm torn between the jockey/stop leg idea. I think the stopping ability is important, but the winch I've bought can go both ways, so I may try a wheel on that principle. I'm trying different things.

 

My main reason with the winch is that I'm worried about asking staff to do it. I've got it onto my trailer alone before, and into the van with a winch, but I just think it'd be safer with a mechanised system. It's that simple.

[morten]

this is what i have used on mine it makes it more manoeuvrable http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=172672&stc=1&d=1419326351http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=172673&stc=1&d=1419326351

 

not sure if my pics have come through, bare with me

 

Nice and simple. That single wheel would also have been my first choice, if I didn't have to push it up ramps onto my trailer.

 

My double-wheel setup looks like this:

 

[TTS North]

Thats nice - stops the stand flapping up and down in between the ramps. My other idea was to run a permanently fixed small electric winch from the chipper's battery, but its such a weak small thing and I can't find one with higher amps to fit in the battery box.

[Stevedavid43]

Nice and simple. That single wheel would also have been my first choice, if I didn't have to push it up ramps onto my trailer.

 

My double-wheel setup looks like this:

 

 

I put a plank of wood in the middle of the ramps so the jockey wheel goes up the middle. It works really well with the winch

[saltwater]

Hi Tim, I'm in the process of buying a CS100 and was looking at loading in and out of my van. Was worried about the weight and loading. Could you tell me which winch you bought please and how it's mounted. Obviously your post is a little old so any changes in your views on the CS 100? Thanks very much.

Pete

[saltwater]

Hi, I am struggling to understand how you use this? What do use as an anchor point for lowering the chipper out of the trailer / hoisting? I have a CS100 and can't get it off and on the trailer alone.. Any advice greatfully received

[Stephen Blair]

Go to the gym and do squats, get yourself strong for manoeuvre I g it without causing yourself an injury.

That's what I did, within 4 weeks I could get it up and down stairs myself and getting it up and down the ramps was easy.

It's hard work though getting into the training.

[wicklamulla]

when i had 1 i simply walked it backwards down the ramps (bit brisk though!) of my Ifor trailer. Loading it simply meant taking a run up to the ramps and pushing it up onto the trailer again, easy really. If i was carting it about in the butt of my pickup it was trickier as the pickup bed is alot higher than the trailer and meant i needed to manually winch it up and down, again no real drama once ya got used to it.