Some fun with the winch today!

[Bud_Dude]

This afternoon’s fun in the sun… out with the old fence posts in prep for the new fence coming. Thanks to the old Land Cruiser and its 10,000 pound winch getting 30 year old concrete out of the ground wasn’t as terrible as it might have been.
Water jetting down 2’ around the concrete helped too, but the winch still had the suspension pretty well bottomed out before the posts conceded the battle.

 

[RET2]

This afternoon’s fun in the sun… out with the old fence posts in prep for the new fence coming. Thanks to the old Land Cruiser and its 10,000 pound winch getting 30 year old concrete out of the ground wasn’t as terrible as it might have been.
Water jetting down 2’ around the concrete helped too, but the winch still had the suspension pretty well bottomed out before the posts conceded the battle.

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How about a now you tell me moment, have you seen the use of a rim and tire to aid extraction?

 

[Bud_Dude]

Yep, I’ve seen some YouTube vids of that trick. It seems like perhaps a decent technique if you can’t get close enough for a near vertical pull. It’s also a recipe for disaster with a long cable out and more than normal stored energy due to the spare tire compressing and possibly lobbing the cable into the air. Saw one pic where the front end of some dudes cruiser was wrecked, got his radiator, hood, front light bar. But there are plenty of ways to safe the system with other cables or chains to prevent such damage. The way I’m doing it, since I can get real close, is pretty safe and not much stored energy in turn cable. I’m pretty safety conscious around winches with steel cables… too many years spent in shipyards around the world and seen some major carnage and loss of life from dumb mistakes.

 

[RET2]

Yep, I’ve seen some YouTube vids of that trick. It seems like perhaps a decent technique if you can’t get close enough for a near vertical pull. It’s also a recipe for disaster with a long cable out and more than normal stored energy due to the spare tire compressing and possibly lobbing the cable into the air. Saw one pic where the front end of some dudes cruiser was wrecked, got his radiator, hood, front light bar. But there are plenty of ways to safe the system with other cables or chains to prevent such damage. The way I’m doing it, since I can get real close, is pretty safe and not much stored energy in turn cable. I’m pretty safety conscious around winches with steel cables… too many years spent in shipyards around the world and seem some major carnage and loss of life from dumb mistakes.

Mission accomplished is what matters.

 

[elripster]

Nice use of winch!