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The Real COME-ALONG Photo

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Rauville

06-12-2003 08:32:29




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In a earlier post I had enquired about a COME-ALONG brand puller. Since my description left something to be desired...here is a photo that better decribes it. I can't believe that something as simple and well made as this is still not being manufactured today. Thanks for the input.

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Dan

06-14-2003 18:39:00




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 Re: The Real COME-ALONG Photo in reply to Rauville, 06-12-2003 08:32:29  
What you have there is what we used to call a "walking boomer" in the oilfield. When we set up drilling rigs, the guy-wires were cables with about 20' of chain at the end. We would set up a dead-man anchor (if there wasn't a convenient tree) by taking four 1 1/2" steel bars about 8' long and driving 2 of them in the ground at a slant, about 4' into the ground so that an X was formed about 2' above the ground. Two X's were made side by side, about 3' apart. We then took two 5' pieces of 6" pipe and put one on top of the X and the other below the X, wrapped a loop of chain around the top pipe and then took the loose end under the bottom pipe and out. We hooked the walking boomer to the loose end and threaded the tail chain on the guy wire into the walking boomer. When you put tension on it, the pull is pulling down on the top pipe and around the bottom pipe so it squeezes them together, it won't pull the stakes out of the ground. We had to be careful not to put too much tension on the cables, we could easily pull a 100' drilling derrick over before the deadman assembly would give.
I never saw these devices used for any other purpose, we always used regular boomers or screw binders for tying down the many different kinds of heavy loads we worked with. We did not consider these walking boomers safe for anything other than a steady straight pull, did not trust them on a load on a truck that would be bounced around.
They would certainly be slow, but they would work good for pulling a stuck tractor out of the mud or other such straight pull applications. The amount of pull these things can easily generate is amazing.

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Gary in IL

06-12-2003 17:03:35




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 Re: The Real COME-ALONG Photo in reply to Rauville, 06-12-2003 08:32:29  
Around here that's called a 'Load Binder', used to tighten chains on loads and smash knuckles.



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Skinner

06-12-2003 18:19:38




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 Re: Re: The Real COME-ALONG Photo in reply to Gary in IL, 06-12-2003 17:03:35  
Look a litle closer at it Gary, it appears at first glance it's a binder, but I used on a lot like this in GrandPa's shop and you can lift vertical loads with it. Just takes pactice. It continues to crawl up the chain unlike a binder.



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mj

06-12-2003 16:01:03




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 Re: The Real COME-ALONG Photo in reply to Rauville, 06-12-2003 08:32:29  
Try this link.



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ShepFL

06-12-2003 14:05:01




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 Re: The Real COME-ALONG Photo in reply to Rauville, 06-12-2003 08:32:29  
That is exactly what I was talking about. Had not seen one since the 70's. The one on ebay sold for ~$82.00



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T_Bone

06-12-2003 12:57:10




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 Re: The Real COME-ALONG Photo in reply to Rauville, 06-12-2003 08:32:29  
Hi Rauville,

I'ver never seen one like that. Thanks for posting the picture.

If I had the deminisions I would make me a couple of them.

You have any more pictures to you can send me or post? I'll wing making one without measurements.

T_Bone



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Paul Janke

06-12-2003 19:35:38




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 Re: Re: The Real COME-ALONG Photo in reply to T_Bone, 06-12-2003 12:57:10  
If you make one, try to make sure the stroke is longer than the distance between links on the chain. We once got one at an auction, and with some chains it would only tighten one direction, because the chain links were too long. On chains with shorter links it worked just like it was made to do. You might want to allow a little extra length to allow for working after some wear.



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Randy

06-12-2003 08:59:17




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 Re: The Real COME-ALONG Photo in reply to Rauville, 06-12-2003 08:32:29  
They still make come-alongs, maybe that particular manfg. no longer makes them but they are still available all over the place.



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