Wheel Hub Winch

[Bogo]

4WD Winches Australia, 4WD Winch Kit Australia - Bush Winches and Anchors
Bushwinch

Interesting product out of Australia. Bush Winch from Bush Winches & Anchors Pty Ltd. It is a winch that mounts to our wheel via special lug bolts and you use your own engine to get you out. Mount one to each side of the vehicle and run the lines to secure winching points. Then drive out. Now where can I get one states side? May have to have one shipped in. They don't list any non AU sellers.

I've heard of taking one tire off of a dual set and doing the same thing.

 

[Jan-78FJ40]

4WD Winches Australia, 4WD Winch Kit Australia - Bush Winches and Anchors
Bushwinch

Interesting product out of Australia. Bush Winch from Bush Winches & Anchors Pty Ltd. It is a winch that mounts to our wheel via special lug bolts and you use your own engine to get you out. Mount one to each side of the vehicle and run the lines to secure winching points. Then drive out. Now where can I get one states side? May have to have one shipped in. They don't list any non AU sellers.

I've heard of taking one tire off of a dual set and doing the same thing.

very interesting for dry conditions. it's got to suck in deep mud or snow, when one can barely get to the lugs.

j

 

[latinoguy]

very interesting for dry conditions. it's got to suck in deep mud or snow, when one can barely get to the lugs.

j

I think the lugs could be put in place permanently, but yeah it would suck trying to fit the recovery wheel in a mud pit. I like this idea.

 

[Josie'sLandCruiser]

Hi All:

This is just a modern take on the "capstan winches" used on old Series Land Rovers in the 1960s and 70s.

I have a feeling this design did not become more popular due to inherent limitations in the design.

Regards,

Alan

 

[Bogo]

very interesting for dry conditions. it's got to suck in deep mud or snow, when one can barely get to the lugs.

But ih8mud...

I think the lugs could be put in place permanently, but yeah it would suck trying to fit the recovery wheel in a mud pit. I like this idea.

Yes the lugs are put on permanently. They have the manual online. The unit then bolts onto them. It is from a part of the world where dust is a larger problem. Some time google "bull dust". Sounds like it can be as bad as mud but it isn't wet. Oh yeah and after you barrel into it your bud following close behind can't see that you bogged to a halt and got stuck. On the other hand they do have their wet season where the roads turn to all over mud instead of hard packed ruts filled with bull dust.

 

[AdventureBuddies]

sounds useful as long as the engine is running....

 

[Bogo]

Most winches have a catch... Ever run out of battery power?:whoops: Hand winches are slow.

 

[Aspen 55]

I saw this in an old issue of fourwheeler magazine. In the cheap tricks section. Except you wind a rope thru the spokes of your wheel and tire then the rope winds onto the tire and you get your self out. In this one there was no need for the second wheel attachment. I drive a tow truck and that is how we store extra winch leads (for big winch outs) is we wind them on an old wheel.

 

[Roberto]

The Canadian Iltis which is what the CDN M101 trailer was designed for had this winch as an option as well. There is a you tube video of an Iltis using one to get unstuck, kinda cool but I guess you have to try and steer straight while it is winding or else???

R

 

[FJ40-GARAGE]

Blast from the past.........

 

[Bogo]

I remember seeing some old film footage of a vehicle winching it's self out with a setup like this. Looked to be a 1920s or 1930s vehicle. Looked like they had removed the tires from the rear wheels and were winding up the cables on the rims. They must have had a few hundred feet of cable on each side hooked to fence posts and it was pulling it's self forward despite the nearly axle high mud.

Bush Winch has a couple options that allow hooking to stuff off to the side. One is a set of blocks that attaches to the bumper and the other is designed to spool the rope onto the hub without the need of the blocks.

 

[latinoguy]

Now some ingenious someone needs to adapt a rim, possibly from an import (for compact size) drill holles in the required specs to adapt it to a yota...best for an 80 lol...who is going to be the first?

 

[Bogo]

Now some ingenious someone needs to adapt a rim, possibly from an import (for compact size) drill holles in the required specs to adapt it to a yota...best for an 80 lol...who is going to be the first?

I did a little thinking on this and determined that it was best to replace the lug nuts like these guys did. Second best would be to make a wheel with built in mounts for the winch wheel. I briefly looked at making an adapter that could be held in place with the regular lug bolts and nuts, but it would be specific to the rim it is mating against. It also adds another layer in the wheel/lug bolt/lug nut interface. That may increase the likelihood of loosening of the lug nuts. Also people would try to use with with other rims than the one it was designed to mate against. That could very easily lead to looseness. With some rims it would be possible to make a ring to hold another rim out further and use bolt hooks to hold it in place. This would work best for steel rims and the rim held in place would be the same size as the one on the truck. There is a common dual tractor tire mounting method that is like this. It would also be seriously sub optimal for wheel balance and the beauty of the wheels mounted on the truck.

 

[fordtuff06]

Military Hmmwv Have a similar set up which I thought was cool.