Posted by Mark - IN. on August 28, 2007 at 19:20:55 from (64.12.117.74):
In Reply to: OT Winch size posted by 550Doug on August 28, 2007 at 18:19:46:
It should as long as cable is long enough to use enough snatch blocks, AND as long as your mounting will take it. For every snatch block you add, you cut the force to the winch and blocks by 1/2. The blocks use leverage to cut or reduce the load.
My first use of a winch was a total failure and disaster. Was in Germany on a loaded 5 ton 6x6 mired in mud. Mired, mired, buried, stuuuuuuck. Cable was probably 5/8" as I recall, and was a long drag out to that huge tree that nearly killed me to begin with, and didn't use one of the several snatch blocks available on hand. What a friggin snot nosed know nothing punk nitwit I was, and sometimes still am. Once around that huge tree, engaged that huge PTO driven winch, and eased off of the clutch. It started to pull, cable got banjo tight, and the pin that locked the winch drum to the shaft sheared off. That winch was done, the cable pulled so tight (bit) into the cable loops on the drum that could've had 10 guys jumping up and down on the cable and not loosened it, and the truck wasn't going nowhere. And on top of it, the cable cut into the tree bark, and the Germans didn't take kindly to that. I ultimately got the shaft to spin enough so I could punch just enough of the sheared pin to catch between the drum and shaft to back off the cable, and the bridge builders used a huge Cat to get that truck unstuck. Never made that mistake again. No matter the winch, always use snatch blocks to cut the weight/drag...unless is a winch on the "back" of a 10 ton military wrecker, with about a 1" cable, and good luck dragging that guy out.
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