Anyone ever tried . . .

Tall T

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. . . turning the PTO belt pulley into a winch drum; i.e., putting a couple of wraps of rope around it and pulling on the loose end to tighten it when you want pulling action?

Thanks,
Terry
 
(quoted from post at 20:29:36 09/26/18) . . . turning the PTO belt pulley into a winch drum; i.e., putting a couple of wraps of rope around it and pulling on the loose end to tighten it when you want pulling action?

Thanks,
Terry

wAY TO FAST!
 
You are talking about making a capstan winch out of a belt pulley? You can see the capstan on the left of my winch tractor. I had also though about making
one out of belt pulley. As R Geiger has said too fast. But I had though about doing with my sherman in low which also slows the pto. You would have to
change the pulley out to a capstan type pulley or the rope would slide off your standard pulley, get tangled up and cause injuries. It's probably doable
but I don't need one so never got around to making one.
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No but I have winched some logs with it. I did take the capstan off so I could get the wheels closer together to make it easier to maneuver in the woods.
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Hi Kirk,

You wrote:
[color=darkblue:1af298cc98] You are talking about making a capstan winch out of a belt pulley? [/color:1af298cc98]

Yes and I was pretty suret that was what they are called -- Capstan.

[color=darkblue:1af298cc98]You can see the capstan on the left of my winch tractor. I had also though about making one out of belt pulley. As R Geiger has said too fast. But I had though about doing with my sherman in low which also slows the pto. [/color:1af298cc98]

Incredible setup you have there!
Pulling logs out was exactly my reason for wanting one.
this big Balsam I'm bucking up, starting from the top, is 20" in diameter and I'm not yet half way to the stump. It's a lot of work making a tractor road to keep me close to the tree. I've been using kind of a skid way to roll the blocks toward the carryall.

In the past but with smaller trees, I've used the boom crane to lift slightly and draw the log towards the tractor, then taking another purchase, so I'll try that routine with short fat logs.

[color=darkblue:1af298cc98]You would have to change the pulley out to a capstan type pulley or the rope would slide off your standard pulley, get tangled up and cause injuries.[/color:1af298cc98]

I figured that might be the case.
I'm going to try my home made and revamped DRAG to rake up branches and limb pieces prior to backing in further so as to safeguard my tires. The terrain is too rough for my landscape rake -- too easy to bend tines.

Thanks,
Terry
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Way too fast, even with Sherman.

Besides, the pulley is crowned to center the flat belt. You could never keep a rope on the pulley.

Dean
 
(quoted from post at 11:40:02 09/27/18) Way too fast, even with Sherman.

Besides, the pulley is crowned to center the flat belt. You could never keep a rope on the pulley.

Dean

DOH!!
I totally forgot about the crown. :)
 
When I was in the Navy, I was on a floating drydock in Danang. We had vertical live capstans on the deck for pulling the larger craft into the dock. These were about 20 inches high and the middle sections were about 16" in diameter.

We used to get hammered out of our skulls and come back at night and see who could sit on the revolving capstan the longest without throwing up. It was great fun, I think. :roll: :roll: :roll:
 
I have a home made drag made with railroad spikes. The guy I bought it from took in to the scrap yard and they wouldn't accept it because of the
Railroad spikes. I'll use the one with the scrarifires if I want to get a little more aggressive.

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(quoted from post at 01:24:16 09/29/18) I have a home made drag made with railroad spikes. The guy I bought it from took in to the scrap yard and they wouldn't accept it because of the
Railroad spikes. I'll use the one with the scrarifires if I want to get a little more aggressive.


Interesting!
My drag had a row of thin sharpened flat bars when I got it and the heavy rack that I added has vertical miniature railway rails — but You probably heard that saga and saw the photo when I first joined this forum. That railway rail rack was for my Oliver crawler. I used to zig zag with it to rip up new garden plots.

Now that aggressive scarifier is just what I needed to take down a long hump where dirt from a ditch had been piled for 45 years. I actually carefully used my single bottom plow to break up the hump and tear a few alder roots, then used a corner of my rear blade to chew away at the rest. I almost tried my spring shank with the chisel plow sweeps.
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Kirk,

That's a great looking and working railroad spike harrow or it is "harrows". (?)

Speaking of those spikes . . .
when I was young in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and living near the St Mary's river, where the big ship locks are. Thee was also a big turbine power generating plant there and a torrent of deepish water rushed out of it.
People, including me one time, would fish from a public catwalk over that powerful fast river of water. But the thing was that the most readily available and perfect sinker to use on your line was a big railway spike!! :D
 

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