ACE winches

[Stephen Blair]

good man

[Dean Lofthouse]

I have got one but it is badged under a different name, same winch though. I've used it loads for winching out conifers and roots and it has been brilliant no probs at all.

 

Give it to a Heavy handed Scottish feller and the story may be different

 

They have shear pins in the handle so should be safe, but I have never taken it past the need for the shear pin to break, I know when I'm putting too much strain on, so I stick a snatch block in the equation

[Stephen Blair]

i am a gentle chap with heavy kit, my fat pal broke his one, well actually, he had been wrestling with it for ages then i told him to give it a good boot, so he did and the lever snapped lol.

[gibbon]

I have got one but it is badged under a different name, same winch though. I've used it loads for winching out conifers and roots and it has been brilliant no probs at all.

 

 

I was about to say the same thing. No problems with mine, yet.

[Stephen Blair]

one day when you guys get some real tree work then you will know what i mean:001_tt2:

[Dean Lofthouse]

one day when you guys get some real tree work then you will know what i mean:001_tt2:

 

Yep, wham bam thank you mam, an in and out man you stevie

[mpb]

It's also worth chucking an old coat over the wire when your winching, then if anything breaks it will help slow the flying cable.

 

Martin

[penfold]

or go down to your local 4x4 place and get a proper winching sail which will absorb some of the recoil and make the cable highly visible to any bystanders.

[skyhuck]

It's also worth chucking an old coat over the wire when your winching, then if anything breaks it will help slow the flying cable.

 

Martin

 

or go down to your local 4x4 place and get a proper winching sail which will absorb some of the recoil and make the cable highly visible to any bystanders.

 

IME, the cables on hand winches, like Tiror's, are alway MUCH higher breaking strain than the capacity of the winch, so I don't think there is any really chance of snapping the cable.

[mpb]

IME, the cables on hand winches, like Tiror's, are alway MUCH higher breaking strain than the capacity of the winch, so I don't think there is any really chance of snapping the cable.

 

But something else in the system can give & you are stood in the firing line. Id rather not have some thing flying towards me at speed.

 

Martin