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Title: Bush Winch
Post by: Ben on August 08, 2017, 10:21:30 AM

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

Title: Re: Bush Winch
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 08, 2017, 10:27:10 AM

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

Title: Re: Bush Winch
Post by: K Frame on August 08, 2017, 10:43:38 AM

Quote from: fistful on August 08, 2017, 10:27:10 AM

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...

Title: Re: Bush Winch
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 08, 2017, 10:49:05 AM

Change that purported misspelling!! Fake news!

Title: Re: Bush Winch
Post by: K Frame on August 08, 2017, 10:49:46 AM

Fake monkey

Title: Re: Bush Winch
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 08, 2017, 10:50:56 AM

Sad!

Title: Re: Bush Winch
Post by: Triphammer on August 08, 2017, 03:24:26 PM

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.

Title: Re: Re: Bush Winch
Post by: Boomhauer on August 08, 2017, 09:46:15 PM

Quote from: Triphammer on August 08, 2017, 03:24:26 PM

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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Title: Re: Bush Winch
Post by: KD5NRH on August 09, 2017, 03:45:18 AM

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.