Tractor Mounted Winches

[andy gartner]

I searched the forums, but can't find info on tractor mounted winches. Some of the boys heading back from Texas inquired about (eg Northern catalogue) electric 12v direct to tractor battery, 120v from your sidekick, onboard PTO-driven generator or manual crank winches, for when your trusty steed going X-country gets stuck in a bog. Like the small 20'-30'cable "superwinch" or other ball-hitch-mount small-elec-draw winches. Could a small electric superwinch work with the limited output of eg a B110/112??? Any pics of a small tractor mounted winch. Thanks

[thedaddycat]

I could scare up a pic of the wife on the tractor..... Oh wait, you said wInch... LOL I'm dead meat if she sees this..... LOL

[nrallen]

I would be very interested in a winch also. But haven't seen anything about the subject here. But I am fairly new to the club.

[clyde]

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Oh wait, you said wInch...

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:D:D:D

[Leroy]

You could drive an inverter driver/ power source for the winch. A 1200 watt Invrtr would be nuff fer a 10 amp motor. How bigs the load on the motor?

[andy gartner]

Hi leroy,clyde, d-cat,Nr, Too funny d-cat! Leroy 10 amps might do it. The smaller superwinches look like they pull about that, they are made for ATV use. I'll try to find out more about amps draw. Unless you're in quicksand, don't think there's a big rush on feet per minute winching.

[D-17_Dave]

Remember, if you power the winch off the bat. a winch is a temp. load. So if drive a winch all you have to do is have a bat. capable of takeing the draw from the winch and then allowing the tractor to run awhile for it to replenish the bat.

[msiebern]

Here is a small winch mounted to the front of a small tractor. Don't know any details, just ran across the picture.

[debalko]

My 4x4 quad has a 12 volt electric winch to raise the snow blade. The $49 Harbor freight winch looks like it would do the job. The quad battery is much smaller than the tractor bat. I think the bearing feed mouth would cost more than the $49 winch.

[Brent_Baumer]

Dutch had a post a long long time ago along these lines. As I recall he used a shive or makeshift something like a shive bolted to the back wheel and a rope. If you get stuck, wheel spins = winch. I may not be totally on track here because like I said that was awhile back. If Dutch is still around (he seems to have dissappeared after withdrawing from the President's race) maybe he can refresh my memory. Brent

[ehertzfeld]

Brent, I maybe mistaken but I belive it was Marty"MPH" who posted about that rope/wheel winch. Elon

[Brent_Baumer]

Maybe. It was quite awhile back. Seen a lot on here in the past 6 years or so. I could very well be wrong..........

[rokon2813]

It was Dutch, and its in tech tips. ;) http://www.simpletractors.com/club2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28783&SearchTerms=winch,rear,wheel

[Tacey]

One reason why I like my little Broadmoor is that I can hop off of it while it's running in low gear, and just push it free. (Don't try this at home, kids.) Tacey

[andy gartner]

Clever tech tip by Dutch, But me thinks, I might be a poor man after I bought all that stuff to hook it up. Still intrigued with the harbor freight $49.00-Chicago tools winch. And George's quad set-up. perhaps a pic george? How does it work?? Guess a big ?? is-battery drain, and is a tractor battery big enough?? And if your engine is a stator set-up is it best to turn off the engine ??-when using the winch-for 20 sec to 2 minute intervals-as most owner's manual downloads indicate. Rolling load seems a critical factor ??

[andy gartner]

Well Some winch manual downloads harborfreight.comm-chicago electric and battery search has metited some info. Seems best vaule is the above winch/specs warranty. batteries in the 34A area are avail thru many place esp wheelchair suppliers-have/sell higher grade batts.

[wantedinct]

I mounted this one right on the j/b picked it up off of e-bay for about $40.00 it has power up, and power down, i use it all the time,even with the headlights on, and i've never had a problem.

[debalko]

Winch is located low on the front of the quad. The rollers through which the cable exits is mounted mid height on the front. The hook has about 4 inches of free travel till it hooks to the blade frame. It pulls the blade up 3-4 inches at the frame. It is strong enough to actually bend the frame. Under no load there is little current draw, so battery consumption is no worse than a starter turning.

[debalko]

Sorry You can just make out connections at http://georgesauto.tripod.com/kodiak3.jpg http://georgesauto.tripod.com/kodiak1.jpg http://georgesauto.tripod.com/kodiak2.jpg