• Steel Soldiers now has a few new forums, read more about it at: New Munitions Forums!

  • Microsoft MSN, Live, Hotmail, Outlook email users may not be receiving emails. We are working to resolve this issue. Please add support@steelsoldiers.com to your trusted contacts.

Search results

  1. cattlerepairman

    Adding a winch

    Murphy's Law of self recovery winches, by cattlerepairman: 1) Any winch cable is at least three feet too short to reach the right anchor point Corollary to 1) If the winch cable is of sufficient length, the pull angle is out of spec 2) If the winch is equipped with a shear pin, it will break...
  2. cattlerepairman

    Adding a winch

    I have plenty of experience with hydraulic winches and some with electric ones. My own PTO winch on my truck still makes me anxious whenever I operate it. Spooling cable is easy - operating the PTO winch safely is not. The beefy PTO winch looks great on the truck and it belongs there. If I had...
Top