Brendon just looked at your picture again and it occured to me that under a no load situation then the gravity on the cable could be a factor in making it spool at one end and if you extend the capstan to give room to wind cable you will increase the leverage on it so might want to support the...
I dont see that putting the drum verticaly should pose any problems. Im sure I could turn my electric winch on its side and it would work fine. The main thing is having your fairlead far enough away from the drum . The only difference in the 2 setups would be gravity on the cable/rope which I...
The 2 1x1s strengthen the front fairlead plate and also support the winch when you are installing it, that sucker is heavy. I was a little worried about the downward force being exerted on the feed shoot as it wasnt designed for a winch and I have already had to weld it up a bunch of times from...
Here you go Brendon, pics as promised. As I said it aint pretty but it only took me 3 hours with mig and plasma cutter and used random steel found laying around the shop. I wanted the winch to be remolvable so I can put it on trucks etc. It is obviously electric. I just sold a job where it will...
hey Brendon, looks good. One problem that I see is if you are going to try to run it as pictured the rope feeding in is below the rope going out so is going to cross over your wraps and frig up. Simple fix just weld a pig-tail on 6" higher and you will be rockin.......
OK just looked at it...
believe it or not the rope never went in the chipper. The ropr from the capstan to the pulley is always under tension when pulling and when we werent pulling we would put it over the corner of the infeed out of the way. I forgot to mention one of the reasons for this configuration was that you...
OK so Brandonv pm.ed me asking about an old winch set up I had on of my chippers. I thought that maybe some of you guys might be interested and might also have some feedback. This set up is pretty redneck but worked OK. The capstan was mounted on a hydraulic motor similar in size to the ones on...
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