kaiser715
Doing hard time
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2006
- Location
- 7, Pocket, NC
I have a hoist on my utility trailer (milsurp M101-3/4 ton). It is a 4" pipe sleeved over a 3.5" pipe for rotation, with a fixed 3x3x1/4 horizontal arm (supported by a 45* brace). I have used it regularly for 300-400+ pound loads. For years, I used a manual boat trailer winch with 1/4" cable. That worked pretty well, but I did not like being that close to a cable under tension, or a suspended load when cranking it. Plus, lowering it, you had to keep control of the crank arm -- there was no brake.
A while back, I put on a Warn 1700 electric winch. It works OK...barely. Under a lift (yeah, you aren't supposed to use them for that) it does good at a couple of hundred pounds....my job-box is 400 or so and the 1700 is marginal.
So...what other options do I have....I don't have a lot of headroom (it has to swing under my ladder rack on the trailer). Making it hinge and using a hydro cylinder may be one option (like an engine crane), but I really don't want to go that way (would also have to drop the ladders to use the hoist). Total lift only needs to be about 5' or so.
I've thought of getting one of the HF 5,000# winches or something like that, but that's getting kind of big and heavy, and I'd probably have to hard-wire to a battery (get by with jumper cables to the 1700 right now).
Something manual (and better than a boat winch) like a chainfall would be great....but again, no enough headroom. I'd have to run the chain over a roller (and make it work in non-vertical orientation.
That's the situation, how about some creative ideas??
A while back, I put on a Warn 1700 electric winch. It works OK...barely. Under a lift (yeah, you aren't supposed to use them for that) it does good at a couple of hundred pounds....my job-box is 400 or so and the 1700 is marginal.
So...what other options do I have....I don't have a lot of headroom (it has to swing under my ladder rack on the trailer). Making it hinge and using a hydro cylinder may be one option (like an engine crane), but I really don't want to go that way (would also have to drop the ladders to use the hoist). Total lift only needs to be about 5' or so.
I've thought of getting one of the HF 5,000# winches or something like that, but that's getting kind of big and heavy, and I'd probably have to hard-wire to a battery (get by with jumper cables to the 1700 right now).
Something manual (and better than a boat winch) like a chainfall would be great....but again, no enough headroom. I'd have to run the chain over a roller (and make it work in non-vertical orientation.
That's the situation, how about some creative ideas??
