Bush Winch

[Ben]

Brilliant, or gimmick? I'm actually not sure. On the face of it,  I would say simple and brilliant, but then I started thinking of potential stress points as well as predicaments where something at wheel height might be problematic for mounting, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trrEKbc6uqE

[Perd Hapley]

So compared to a conventional winch, it's cheaper? More powerful? No motor to maintain?

[K Frame]

So compared to a conventional wench, it's cheaper? More powerful? No motor to maintain?

One should always have a wench with a powerful bush...

[Perd Hapley]

Change that purported misspelling!! Fake news!

[K Frame]

Fake monkey

[Perd Hapley]

Sad!

[Triphammer]

There's been some variation on this since  the Ford Model "A". Army has a  variation that fits the HMMV. I've even used the principal when I got stuck with a small dozer.

[Boomhauer]

There's been some variation on this since  the Ford Model "A". Army has a  variation that fits the HMMV. I've even used the principal when I got stuck with a small dozer.

When we put tracks back on a dozer we use the final drive in the same manner to pull a wire rope to haul the tracks up around and over the roller frame.

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[KD5NRH]

IIRC, they improvised this on one of the survival shows, to get a jeep through a swamp.  Just wrapped the rope on a wheel, tightened it up with a log winch so it was tight against the tire, and drove to the anchor.