Coletti

I may have come to a good compromise. I've just bought a harken 35 2 speed self tailing winch and I intend to use it with a drill adapter in this configuration. Should serve it's purpose at a fraction of the cost of a petrol capstan winch

What's the hold like on the brake on the eder? It looks similar to the docma capstan winch only the dogma is a little cheaper

Have a Lewis winch here, not done a huge amount of work.  I took the rope off as it was fraying, was going to replace it with Dyneema but apparently that's a no no on these. Has to be steel. So comes with a new coil of 50m 4mm wire rope, you'll have to wind it on. £550 inc VAT posted, have all the adaptors to fit various saws still.
 
I just don't use it, I can almost always get a digger or truck with a winch to where need to pull something. Was really handy for a job pulling branches out of a river, but apart from once recovering a Transit from a muddy field that's almost all I've used it for in eight years. I tried using to pull some roots out- it worked, but a Tirfor would have been less faff to set up for two stumps.

If you want a portable winch and your only gonna use it once in a while to haul stuff out of streams an such then why bother paying a grand or over when you can get one for a hundred quid..  
 
An endless rope winch would be better..   I went through this myself a couple of months back and settled on this...
 
 

If no room then pulling with truck can be a problem, I fitted winch to truck years ago and now hardly use hand winch have even ran cable down the side of house to pull roots out in back garden.

If you can get truck near just buy a good rope and some pulley blocks quicker then any winch. 

What will you use it for?
As a capstan is for lowering.
I use a tirfor for pulling trees over.

Hello all, I'm looking at getting a portable winch of some description and just looking for people's experience with different types and manufacturers. The ones I've been looking at are the docma and eder capstan winches and the lewis chainsaw winch. Pros and cons between capstan and chainsaw? They are all much the same on price

Not sure what's happening with the links, just Google "echo cs2511tes parts" and look for the result as circled above to get the pdf

That link doesnt appear to work so heres the search i did for it, the parts catalogue is the second result as circled in the pic

https://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-samsung&source=android-browser&q=echo+cs2511tes+parts

I tried forestandarb, couldn't find it. Any chance you could post a link? Thanks.

Take a look at the 3l isuzu rodeo, anywhere from about 2004-2011 will be fine. Old enough not to have too much electrics and a very agricultural engine that's easy to maintain and work on. They aren't the fastest, but pull very well and can return 36mpg on a good run. I've had an 06 plate for around 50-60k miles and aside from usual wear and tear parts I've only had to replace one abs sensor which considering it's on 135k I don't think is bad (the abs sensor is the only thing aside from normal wear and tear parts it's ever had replaced) and many have gone 300k + with out much fuss so they are very reliable and to be honest, they are pretty cheap

Long shot this one . I need a groundie with basic tickets for a 2 day job just outside Boston.  Accomadation is covered as is breakfast and dinner rate is 120 per day for 2 days arrive Sunday 2nd  late afternoon finish Tues 4th pm .
You will be working with a team of 6 processing roadside trees . You will need to bring your certificates with you along with a copy of your personal accident cover . Message me 07734324597 cheers Mark THTC Ltd 

Both saws have been sold so couldn’t get any tests done but the stats are below 
and I will get one of these as a demo and the new top handle petrol model 

Gas less is okay but spits and is messy. As has already been said, if a breeze isn't an issue then get a proper mig welder. If you look around you can get inverter mig welder that will also do arc and scratch start tig too which is always a bonus. One I keep hearing about and haven't seen a bad review of is the Rtech mig welder so worth a look there. Some good vids of it in YouTube also

Can get little spikes for 2511tes from forest and arb, part number is C304-000000

They trade carry capacity on the truck for towing ability you need to look for a train mass of 7 tonnes

[mention=36392]Coletti[/mention] with regards getting hold of one either here or in the USA, would the lack of ce marking be an issue buying one from America and getting it shipped over here? It’s taken a while from prototype to production I would imagine it could take an eternity to get it ce approved [emoji849]

January release for the states aparantely and from what I know, tree stuff are taking pre orders and Wes spur are shortly going to be taking pre orders. It was revealed at the tcia expo in the states this week. No news on ce marking or UK release yet but the process is on going for this I'm lead to believe.

So I just received the quote .... it’s £2500 plus £100 delivery plus VAT ... totals £3100 ... not happening ! 

How much roughly do you know? I’ve seen post saying it’s about £1500 ... I just inquired about it and awaiting a response so I’ll be able to clarify tomorrow hopefully. 

The problem is with pick ups is you’re struggling for space in the first place.
These might be good for log deliveries, but I wouldn’t want to sacrifice the wheel arch space for a chip back.
I doubt £1500 will get a proper tipper conversion these days, but I’d love to be proved wrong,

Power tipper is most definitely still trading, he's been posting up in one of the farming groups I'm in of late. They look a nice idea but for the price you could have a tipper conversion done which would be stronger and give better load capacity

When speedlining lumps of timber (or anything a little heavy for a safe hand hold) we often just tie of as normal on the stem just below the chog but run the other end through a flying capstan type lowering device (Stein rc1000 in my case). This does 2 things, 1. It seriously reduces the risk of the groundy losing control and flying towards the tree and 2. It allows the ability to "let it run"so to speak to dissipate the initial shock load and dissipate a lot of the energy.

Thanks for all your replies I’ve had a quick look on eBay and found this guy, don’t suppose anyone on here has used them or know of them. 
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F253141548122