Prefer all steel for real work..... But then with a 10,000 lb. winch you can break anything...
I agree! This trip was unexpected, and I hurried around and picked up everything "I thought" I would need on the trip, to do what "I thought" I was going to do! I had a friend who was going to re-deck the trailer for me "when he got around to it". I hurriedly put the aluminum floor down, mounted the winch and a tray to hold the 4 batteries I had recently retrieved from a Prevost. The trip turned out pretty well, all in all, except for a wheel bearing heating up 150 miles from home, then me realizing when we pulled the drums, that the heat had gotten to the brake linings, and while waiting on those parts, I glanced at the date code on the 14ply tires, so after packing all four wheel bearings, putting 4 new sets of brakes, and just for fun, went with 4 new tires, which required 4 new rims, because I figured I would be heavy on the return trip, and going from 16" 14 ply tires to 17.5" 16ply tires just seemed like a good idea.
When I was grabbing things to make the trip, I grabbed what I had and a trip to Harbor Freight and Tractor Supply gave me the rest. The 2 winches came via Amazon, thanks to another member ordering them for me while I was still out on the road.
When I broke the last pulley block, I started looking for a machine shop to make me a roller out of a piece of steel shafting, or let me borrow a lathe long enough to do it myself, but he suggested Tractor Supply(which I wasn't aware had opened a store in that town) so I went there and got what I needed to finish loading both tractors. Neither had been run in at least 5 years.
Oh, the two winches I bought were 4500 pound winches, and triple blocked came right up on my trailer, dragging the bushhog behind the Massey 65 and the a tiller behind the Hinomoto. No issues with power, the four batteries handled it fine!
David from jax