Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: winch wiring

Posted by txblu on July 27, 2004 at 08:04:58 from (199.46.199.230):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: winch wiring posted by Ron on July 27, 2004 at 06:31:01:

Block effect on winch capacity has no effect...agreed.

But to do a given task, winch workload is directly reduced by dividing the load by the number of pulleys.

The original post had to do with workload.

If you buy a winch that is precabled, I'll agree you get the cable that they supplied; unless you take it off and use your own. My latest winch came empty spooled so I chose my cable size based upon the load to be moved.

As far as cable size, it most definitely is affected by number of pulleys. That is why they are used; to share the load. Distance is increased by the number of pulleys (multiple) but again you don't get something for nothing.

So if you have your truck equipped so that you can feed your 12k winch great. This guy apparently didn't and we offered options as to how he might get it to work. Different people have different resources and different situations.

For example, I chose to use a manual winch on my haytruck because I wanted the exercise and didn't want to go the extra bucks for an electric unit. I originally rigged it without a snatch block and could hardly lift it. One snatch block and it was much easier and I got to reduce my cable from 3/8 to 5/16 which rolled on the winch much better.

FYI, The last come-a-long I bought to hoist (drag)my kids cars onto my trailer to get them back home came with a snatch block which was attached to the vehicle, deadman back at the come-a-long. It was a 4 ton capacity and had a 5/16 dia cable just like my previous 2 ton unit without snatch block.

Mark

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