swaged winch cable

[thumper440]

im just about due for a winch cable. all that is available locally is a swaged cable. i see lots of them out there but someone mentioned having bad luck with it coiling on a john deere. where it is a smaller diameter winch spool. anyone use a swedged on a 440jd? thanks

 

[wvlogger]

I run swaged winch line on all my stuff and my buddy runs it on a JD650G that he uses to pull drill rigs in. In its former life they skidded logs with it. The chain on the end of the cable broke once but never ther swage

 

[ronr]

The guy I team up with runs swaged cable on on his old JD440. Seems to work fine, no problems with coiling. I think it holds up better too. I have the same on my JD350B crawler winch but don't use it much, no problems so far.

 

[tlandrum]

with any cable the only time i have problems with coiling is when you rip the cable across something like when you use scissors on a ribbon too make it pig tail. most often skidder line problems are operator error. it really pisses me of when someone screws up a cable a nearly 3 bucks per ft. on pure stupidity.