8 or 16 ton snatch block?

[Darrin Turnbull]

What about making a pulley from shackle.

[LGP Eddie]

An eight ton winch on its own will pull back almost any tree if you can get the rope high enough , the bigger problem is stopping the winch vehicle being dragged forward. I spent all afternoon yesterday pulling back big pine windblown hung up trees with the winch on the front of the Massey and thats only a six ton. That was enough to pull them over including the root plate. You would need one mother of an anchor to secure a true 16 ton of line pull.

 

Bob

 

The absolute truth there Bob and I was doing a complete rewind on my 6.5 Tajfun winch yesterday to keep the cable wound on properly by winching a T series Valtra with Farmi Chipper uphill.

I think Greg was just trying it out to be honest, but it simply dragged the whole lot dead uphill with the wheels sliding on a hardcore road until he decided to let the brakes off!

The winch was going nowhere as it was on 12 tonne of machine with the butt plate dug in though.

 

Winches are seriously powerful bits of kit and when I use the big Superwinch on the Kubota I prefer not to go too ridiculous on anchoring the machine, as if it gives a little it's generally time for a complete rethink?

 

 

 

Eddie.

[aspenarb]

What about making a pulley from shackle.

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Its a neat idea but steel winch rope needs large diameter pulley blocks correctly sized for the rope or its fatigue life will be very short.

 

Rope blurb liftech

 

Bob