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yes safety is important . and if anybody thinks they cant put a big enough hyd motor to blow up a deuce winch they are mistaken. i have a 4500 psi pump on my backhoe and if somone bought one of those and hooked it up to a 200 hp deuce .they could do serius damage to themselves. some mile...
well maybe i dont know to much but i do know ive probly used winches 3 to 4 thousand times over the 35 years ive been in the oil patch . road building and logging . these winches are not somthing sent down by the gods to screw with your head , if you have any skill with angles and basic...
first take out 1000 bucks cash ,,build a mount for your hyd motor use at least 60 heavy roller chain put the same tooth sprockets on your winch shaft and your motor shaft if you have at least a 3500 in lb motor hook up your valve body ,your pump, your hoses , fill your hyd resevor happy...
id rather be inside the cab than standing 10 or so feet from the winch hanging onto the winch controle , if it realy bothers you lift the hood nothing is going through the hood and if you have a weight on the cable like your supposed to a broken cable will be just that,broken and on the...
i cant see the not safe for one person deal at all i use mine by myself all the time . its a worm gear you can stop and check it anytime you want take your time if your stuck your not going anywhere anyhow . i try not to winch on an angle and in my situation winching logs i can usaly pull...
old farm grain trucks usualy have pto driven hyd pumps complete with resevor and there cheap at auction or wrecker yard some of the ones ive seen drive a seperate pump with a roller chain to run drill fill augers for seeding
actualy i have thought of puting an 8500 electric beside the pto winch on the front of my gasser it would be faster for pulling a tree out of the way or light winching,moving stuff,you know one of the hundred things you can find to winch when your out in the yard i supose you could hook both...
i have an 8000 lb hyd on my backhoe ,,i used to have an electric on it ,for 5 ft pulls the electric was good but for a couple of 100 ft pulls in a row (along a creek doing beaver dams)the hyd is so much better you would never go back to electric . i probly do more winching than most ppl ,as i...