capstan winch

[Baby Grand]

I assume you jacked the rear end up, or did you just chase the tractor around with the rope?:laughing:


I saw two guys do that one time with a truck. Thought they were pretty cool, till the milk crates the truck was setting on crushed, and the truck started rolling down their drive way, in gear.

... that really needs the Benny Hill Show/Yackety Sax music.

 

[tommu56]

Yea that wold have been funny

I lifted it on the out riggers on hoe.

tom

 

[SPYDERLK]

Yea that wold have been funny

I lifted it on the out riggers on hoe.

tom

Signature line needs a spell check.

 

[Skyco]

Capstan winches are pretty common in the communications tower world. A lot of them I've seen plug into a 2" receiver and are used for hauling antennas and equipment up and down the tower. Most run on 110AC but a few I've seen run on 12vDC

 

[sandman2234]

I built one out of a piece of 7" round steel stock. I turned a 6.5" radius in it, then countersunk a hole in one end. I used a pto coupling that I turned the end down to fit the drilled hole and pressed it in, then welded it. The design worked fine but the speed at idle was still a little too fast. I am in Willow Hill, Pa or I would post a picture of it. David from jax

 

[shinnlinger]

I have been meaning to make one that runs off the PTO on my Kubota. I want to take a 4x4 front axle with an open diff and use the short shaft side and find another short shaft and weld it in the center of a drum and shorten the long side tube to take the drummed shorter shaft.

I would use the brakes to operate it. Tighten the non drum side untill the winch start to turn and loosen it to stop. The tractor never stops running that way and if you had a rope to work the brake it would be remote control. If you kept the brakes intact on the drum side, you could use that to lower a load if you had it rigged for overhead lifting.

 

[schmism]

I always thought a hydraulic one would be natz azz around the farm.

something mounted to the front of the tractor, like a hydraulic motor running the input to a brush hog gear box with a capstan cylinder on the other end. feather the remote/FEL valve for precise work.

takeing a cue from the old miltary trucks