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sgtmaconga

October 14, 2008, 03:46:40 PM
Beleve it or not i'm looking for a HEAVY duty hand crank winch to mound on my trailer. Since i'm not doing this for a living a hand crank would work best for me. i had a 12V 8000 lb winch which burned up on me.

i've lookd at all the boat winches and there too small. any sugestions?
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Raider Bill

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October 14, 2008, 04:01:01 PM
Sarge,
I've seen some gear reduced HEAVY duty hand cranks on some big boat trailers? You need bigger that that?
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Radar67

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October 14, 2008, 04:01:27 PM
I was told this is a grain elevator winch. You might try the farm supply.





You might try ebay as well. This is an older one.
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RSteiner

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October 15, 2008, 07:11:20 AM
There are some heavy duty hand crank boat winches out there.  Most of the larger ones have two ratios, you just move the hand crank to a different position. 

You might try McMaster-Carr industrial supply. 

Randy
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Kevin

#4
October 15, 2008, 07:30:52 AM
If you incorpoarate a mechanical advantage into your pulling system it will reduce the pull significantly.

rebocardo

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October 15, 2008, 09:10:35 AM
> any sugestions?

Better electric winch, only leave enough cable on the drum to reach the back of the trailer, use additional lengths to get it closer to the trailer if you have to, use a pulley block, shortest fattest cable from battery to winch. Running a cable from the front of the truck to the trailer never works unless it is a 2/0 charge cable.

Or a $140 4 ton hand winch with 40 feet of cable with a couple of pulley blocks.

Dodgy Loner

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October 15, 2008, 10:27:11 AM
I got two farm winches that were used for raising the doors of chicken houses from a friend of mine.  They look very similar to the one Radar posted pictures of.  I made removable mounts for the side of my trailer, and I use them in tandem to parbuckle logs onto the trailer.  I got one log on that was 38" in diameter and 10' long.  I believe I estimated the weight at 5000 lbs.  It only took me and one friend, and we never broke a sweat.  Those farm winches are beautiful things 8)
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raycon

#7
October 15, 2008, 02:14:21 PM
I don't have a picture of the winch that was/is on my wood-mizer. There is probably a few photos in the archive.
It was slow but worked well.  Maybe wood-mizer would sell you one or give you a price and load capacity?

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