Average joe with forest property and ancient farm equipment here. Need a winch to pull logs uphill and through ditches. Eventually i would also like to be able to pull down dead trees and add a log arch to my trailer. picrel is the only reasonable winch you can get in my part of the free world. any more fancy than that and you're in unobtainium-territory as a hobbyist. only found two guys on the tubes reviewing this winch and they seem to shill it hard, but at that price point it's cheap enough to risk it. dimension-wise the biggest logs will have a max. length of 3 meters / 10 feet and max diameter of 70 cm / 27.5 inch. so well within the pulling capacity. not sure yet if it makes sense to build a log arch for my trailer as it has a higher center of gravity with 82 cm / 32 inch height. main goal really is not to be forced to split the wood by hand on site and walk uphill a million times. what do you guys think? you got pics of your setup?
>>2953293theres a reason winches for real useres are generally worm geared. you will smoke the brake if you pull against it. and that synthetic line wont last being drug through the brush>pull down dead treesthis is suicidal. even pushing dead trees over with a d6r with full rops and sweeps is dangerous as fuck. dead trees break up and go down unpredictably and rain mankiller chunks of wood down on any poor sap in the quarter section
>>2953359What do you mean suicidal? Thats pretty much the safest way possible to do it when you are not anyway near when the tree goes down. Cut enough so it still stands, put some wedges in and then pull it down from far away. You think that some arborist basket faggot will haul his lift in the middle of a forest and limb it down? Or climb up like that is any safer.
>>2953813>Cut enough so it still standsthats a no from me dawg. i'd want to deal with them as much hands-off as possible>>2953359>that synthetic line wont last being drug through the brushnot so concerned about that. i'd use an elevated pulley so the line is not dragging through the dirt and the winch has an easier pull since the logs are not digging themselves into the ground> dead trees break up and go down unpredictablyi was hoping to avoid this with a super long rope (extending the line of the winch) plus hiding in safety with the winch remote. but the more i think about it the more i realize it may be more economical to have a professional deal with the risksbottom line: i guess pulling dead trees is out of the game. pulling logs uphill and having a log arch to load them is still high on my list. you guys think a log arch would work with the height of my trailer? i'll post pics as soon as i get around to it
Also depends on how massive these dead trees are that you are wanting to pull over. And now high up you can get a line. Most people severely underestimate how well anchored into the ground most trees are, and how heavy a still wet tree is. Of course if they are long time dead all the sap should be out of them, so that helps.
