Yep- here in the sandhills all the bigger "feeding" tractors had a winch to pull stacks on the haysled. Was backbreaking work to drag that heavy cable around each stack, usually through snowdrifts waist high. Several times a day all winter long.
Around here anyway, all the winches were built by local welding shops. They were built to bolt in place of the U-shaped drawbar on the tractor and used part of old truck rearends with a sprocket on the pinon shaft that was chained to a sprocket on the tractor's PTO shaft, then a small gear on an axleshaft that turned a big gear on the winch cable drum.
On ours anyway, there was a lever that would slide the axleshaft in and out of the axle tube, pulling the axle splines out of the differential carrier to shut the winch "off", allowing the cable drum to freespool so you could pull cable out.
The final part was that these winches all had what resembled a small rear-facing dozer blade with a few downward-pointing spikes, that could be lowered onto the ground for "bite" if the stack was frozen down and the winch was dragging the tractor.
I've got one of our old winches yet, and am gonna put it on my 650D one of these days to use to pull stuck tractors etc out of low ground.
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