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Did a quick sketch/calcs from Ron's info (other thread comparing M54 and 819 drums)... Yes, changing out the whole winch would be an option - question is - which method would be easier subject to skill/available shop etc., vs available other winch - then to addapt brackets... (prob just as much...

I think it can be done - but the reasoning for the rule is probably related to all modern civi wreckers use the boom winches for recovery as they do not generally have additional drag winches - which our ones have, with plenty of feet in that dept. So it might be worth getting a clarification...

Not sure where this came from, refering to a book quote. Doesn't make sence seeing as a full winch-in for recovery close to the final position of the casualty would be all under tension with exception of the last few feet when "preparing to travel". So I'd say your time in Maintenance wasn't...

I believe we 'done this one to death' already.... started in post #115 of thread http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?83773-Wrecker-bed-modification&highlight=wreckery+body+mods Longer drum in it's current position would not load either end - fleet angle as Ron mentioned and...

Sounds like you should have all the info needed to fix your problem, though there are a couple of other things that potentially could be wrong however extremely unlikely........ There could be a build up of crud/foreign body in the slots that the sliding tensioner wheel moves in - not allowing...

'Hey' back at yuh! I missed Jim Thorpe too. Hopefully going to Red Ball/Sussex though. Thanks for the heads up on the cutting dude. Will see what he can do though initially we are waiting to see what Pats friend with a plasma table can come up with as far as a unit price...

Miss read your post - I thought you had already left! I pm'd you a little note. Looks like there will be plenty of things for you to do, go see etc., and just like Oz, stuff tends to be quite a distance apart! Play your cards right and you could probably leap frog your way across the country...

It looks like a factory add on - as in Mercedes not Freightliner. I remember in the UK, friends who had 404's used to call it a rubbish bin (UK) winch - 'cause it looked the same size as a 'trash can' (US) mounted on the front bumper. Not a huge capacity - I think the cable is in the order of...

you beat me to my edit...... Deleate this after seeing the second pic.

Patracy ; Re your pic... I was imagining something in the order of 12 - 15 feetlong! Those 'ears' look like they would interfere with the instalation into the top of the boom (after one sheave was removed). ....... UNLESS!.... I am looking at this the wrong way around. If the right end went...

and the SteelOscar for best animated fiction goes to.... Ooo, look what just fell out of the back of my computer...

well well well... If Phil really has the pole, I'd better get started on drawing the rest - mast head and stay arrangement! Needed to write a second line here..... so you'all can read between them! 8)

Nice safety device, very ingenious. Howz about painting it silver to kind of match the other side! I was going to do a hinge plate to imobilise the levers on the cupola, similar to some small modern tractors with front loaders.

Look what I did NOT find in the TM's!!! 8) NB. Anyone who thinks this is anything other than a totally ficticious brain f@rt, purely to entertain the wrecker non-masses will be shot.

So any liberal, vegetarian, ban the second amendment, foreigners need not apply??? 8) But welcome anyway from Nr Cooperstown! (By the way, I eat meat!)

Quite agree - a midships winch works if it is a capstain type with a powered take up drum (Land Rover 101-pto driven, left in gear and only pays out when pulled) or if there is a dog clutch and the whole system free spools easily - no tight bends etc (not more than 3/8", maybe 1/2" cable for one...

OK Jeff - now you have me confused. Where did you get the term 'Gipsy head' from? You seem to be the first person to mention it... on this thread. And as DH pointed out re Wiki link - it's the driven horizontal drum (windlas) - toothed for heavy chain- a la negative of a sprocket, used on a...

There should be a way to do it, but you'll need a few pulley wheels, associated brackets, pig tails etc., to safely route the cable smoothly to a rear fairlead past all the undercarriage etc. Current thread on Mack wreckers has the fairlead on the front bumper - winch is way at the back (well...

Only thing that I know of that is anything like a "pogo stick" - is often a term for the 'hosetenna' on a tractor....... and therefore nothing to do with a W/W truck!!! Is a gipsy head anything to do with a capstan type winch??

Yup - they are Australian. Made in country. The wreckers replaced their M816's. There are a couple of former RAEME guys on here that occasionally contribute - but it's their summer now so are probably on the beach and not online! Cargo versions too: