Thread: Lewis winch : gear reduction

Cheers found this link https://www.facebook.com/WattsCraftN...1374387612588/ you reckon that is thin dyneema they are using? I have 100m of braided 14mm rope and it has some weight and takes up a bit of space.

Originally Posted by yerimaginaryM8

Cheers found this link https://www.facebook.com/WattsCraftN...1374387612588/ you reckon that is thin dyneema they are using? I have 100m of braided 14mm rope and it has some weight and takes up a bit of space.

14mm is way to thick. I have 10mm and even that is probably overkill

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

I have used a lot of Waratahs as land anchors

Drive them in full length with a D shackle on the top of them

Cheap easy and effective

3 warratarhs inline linked together is enough anckor in most terrain to recover anything or stall any common 4wd winch .

The best ground anchor I have found is my Defender for the Hilux's to get through @MSL

Your point? Still best anchor.

Originally Posted by Markgibsonr25

About 5 years back there was a Nz made one that bolted to a saw .It was a lot better made than what is available now.From memory it had a 3 ton single line pull.I can't find any links to it now pretty sure it was on trademe for a bit around that time.

That may have been the one built by a good mate of mine, I think he sold them as the "Salmon Winch". Had a really nice cast alloy housing with the drum out front and and it bolted to either a Stihl 66 or 88 Magnum powerhead... I can't remember which. Yeah he had em on TM for a while and short vids on Youtube of pulling logs and boulders around a paddock. Did a quick search but can't find any reference to it now sadly.

We have another thread on the original winch I made and I still have this one in the shed as well

I kept the Tecumesh 2 stroke on it and apart from being loud it’s still powerful.


https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....project-28057/

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

The best ground anchor I have found is my Defender for the Hilux's to get through @MSL

The main issue there is, the defender can’t make it far enough to be used as a ground anchor for the hilux. Ground anchor is no use if it’s stuck with three wheels still on the sealed road


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Originally Posted by rockland

That may have been the one built by a good mate of mine, I think he sold them as the "Salmon Winch". Had a really nice cast alloy housing with the drum out front and and it bolted to either a Stihl 66 or 88 Magnum powerhead... I can't remember which. Yeah he had em on TM for a while and short vids on Youtube of pulling logs and boulders around a paddock. Did a quick search but can't find any reference to it now sadly.

Salmon winch that was the one.You dont have any contact details for him?

Originally Posted by Mauser308

A local precision engineering outfit had a protoype hand winch that had a custom built drum over a planetary reduction drive unit, powered off a slide on 18v commercial battery. Might have been a Makita mounting? Not sure now. Very very trick, not quick but under a couple of KG and suitable for lifting with the inbuilt braking mechanism. Never caught up with what happened to that, it was probably very spendy but what a design - I still can't find anything equivalent commercially.

Is that the unit used to tighten the turn buckle chains on the log ships, they are a nice unit, 12 volt Makita drill, modified thru, I don’t know how many ratios.