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[bill]

anyone tried one of these?

 

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i only want one for pulling out shrub/hedge roots.

[Steve Bullman]

yeah ive used similar before to dig out stumps, its probably better than nothing, it wont pull therm right out but will certainly help lever them over so you can axe the roots easier

[igottacabstar]

anyone tried one of these?

 

click here

 

i only want one for pulling out shrub/hedge roots.

 

I've got one. One of the most useful bits of kit you can get for £12. It's not really powerful enough to pull roots out of the ground; we use it for putting a bit of tension on the tree when felling just to make sure it goes in the right direction and doesn't sit back on the saw. Also useful for popping off large sections when chogging down the trunk.

[bob]

may have one of those bill will have a look later

[wills-mill]

Those little cranky winches are really very good for the money, though they get a bit chewed up after a while and aren't always brilliant because of the short cable.

I used to always use them with a length of old climbing line and a prussik- you could get the slack out of the system before using up precious cable. If you need to pull any distance get 2!! Seriously, if you link 2 together, crank one in then the second....

 

I've now found an 800kg lift Tirfor on eBay with a huge distance of cable, very light and always in the truck. I think that was under 40 quid, it doesn't look pretty, but our local lifting engineers have given it a medical are happy with it

 

EDIT: 4 tons is a pretty ambitious claim- that's probably pulling a 4 ton vehicle on a nice smooth incline. Not a 4 ton load or a 4 ton lift

[bill]

it probably pulls 4 ton of sledge over an iced lake. still for the money it must be worth getting. their downfall is the shortness of the wire.