Good deal?

[Lumberjack]

Hey RB! Aint heard from ya in a long while! Honored to have you post on my thread!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Hey Carl, do you have a a couple heavy rigging blocks? Once you start using The Winch regularly you'll want to have one high above it to fair the line away from the work.

If you've not been doing that.

I allso keep a carbiner on a short section of rope to redirect the line through the top fair leads. Side loading can bend them, and heavy loading through the side fairleads can maken the winch slide on the tree.

The bracket is designed to transfer the force up unto the rubber pads, and side loading defeats this

 

[Lumberjack]

I am not sure what you mean JPS, I have heavy blocks (2 CMI steel blocks) as well as several lighter pullies. I am planning on picking up another steel block and an ISC block. I am not sure what fairing away from the work means. Do you mean like a high rigging point so you can swing the pieces farther out?

I will keep your redirect in mind, I was thinking a pulley instead of a biner.

Thanks for the advice

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I am not sure what you mean JPS, I have heavy blocks (2 CMI steel blocks) as well as several lighter pullies. I am planning on picking up another steel block and an ISC block.

I prefer the ISC spring-blocks to anything else, and if you work heavy most of the time most pullies are a waste of money.

I am not sure what fairing away from the work means. Do you mean like a high rigging point so you can swing the pieces farther out?

I may be writing in my own vernacular here. What I mean is that you use the two blocks so that the rope runs clean from block to the crank and the second block to the load with minimal fowling of the load in the working rope.

I will keep your redirect in mind, I was thinking a pulley instead of a biner.

Thanks for the advice

I've done that, but;

1. the bend is not usually severe enough to need it
2. you can get the carabiner closer to the tree, so there is less slop
3. it costs less to use steele carabiners and you van incorperate several into a system, say for when your using a gas drill to forward debris up a slope and you need to snake it around several trees...

 

[Ax-man]

I don't why they don't put two straps on these GRC's. I personally don't have a manufactured friction brake, mine is the basic Bollard , no winch, that I made in the shop patterened after the real thing.

The first time we side loaded it darn near pulled it off the tree, ever since then I make sure the rope is fed into it, vertically with no side loading. If I ever get around to redoing the one I have it is going to have two straps instead of one.

Now if I was to run into a deal like LJ did, the one I have will end up in the scrap heap. I've gotten my use out of it for the fifty bucks worth of metal I put into it.

Larry

 

[Lumberjack]

I would post pics of it, but the rain is keeping it in the truck for now.

2 straps sounds like a great idea! I am still unsure how much to crank down on the single strap, I have the vid coming for it next week from sherrill.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

if you are just doing light rigging then snug it up tight, if you're blocking down big chunks then crank it down as tight as two guys can get it, the small section of strap not touching the tree should sing when tapped.

Two truck straps would make it too bulky for one man to set up, which is one of it's finest selling points. I can set it all up solo to rig out on a meium sized tree.

I've a vid of me doing it somewhere, just never got around to converting it. I should get an MPEG one of these days, Gopher likes doing those things...Then i can show what a well abused winch looks like I've had so many things slammed into the bracked that I've been joking for over six months that I sholud take it in for a refurb.