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Like i said, roughly finished :lol: it actually has a corrosion allowance on it, when it rusts away so do I!

No build thread since i made it long before i joined here, it's simply a non self tailing sailboat winch mounted on steel plate. The winch i used is about the same size as the grcs one, and i used the winch to power my chipper winch thing as well. Affordable on ebay since all anyone wants on...

Works just fine. Fiddle blocks have their advantages/disadvantages, same as everything else. If you were so inclined you could build yourself a set of these, they've worked pretty good for several millennia now. Not as nice as pulleys, but they work just the same. The massdam is simply a rope...

This is what i used to make my fiddle block setup with. Needle is better than ball because it transfers the load over a wider area, which is why the bushing ones are still around. https://www.treestuff.com/cmi-rp110d-micro-pulley/

I'm in peoria, who's your family? Its a smaller world than you would think! Good luck on the pulley, I'm sure it will serve you well for years to come. I also have the ss version of the pulley you showed, very nice but with the thinner side plates i wouldn't block with it. Fiddle blocks work...

I don't think the other one is on the big side, i use the un-galvanized version of it exclusively. Affordable, large bend radius, and built to last; what more do you want? 2 tons wll on a pulley is only 1 ton on the line, which is what you are looking at negative blocking 500 pound chunks to...

This. Perfectly said @Marc-Antoine.