Danica
Silver Member
Keep in mind, it's not all that hard to pull a tractor in half, with a front mounted winch.
SR
Good God, that is a scary thought. Sheeeesh!
Tx,
Danica
Keep in mind, it's not all that hard to pull a tractor in half, with a front mounted winch.
SR
???Keep in mind, it's not all that hard to pull a tractor in half, with a front mounted winch.
SR
Once you exceed the mounting bolts strength to the motor block, it's coming apart, no exceptions A few YT video's depicting it..
They make 3pt logging winches. They tend to be more powerful than most of the WARN bumper mount types. (Though WARN does have some beasts, too). Given your ideas to pull tractor out of trouble, it would need to be strong enough to pull tractor+heaviest implements weight + a fudge factor for resistance (whatever you got stuck in). In my case, I'd need a bare minimum of 10K winch. I see prices around $4k for a 3pt 10k winch.
I build an hydraulic winch for mine. Great to have, it's always there when I need it and can run it forever being hydraulic. I built it to pull me out of tricky situations when I was working some serious hills, ended up not needing it for that yet but I've pulled other vehicles, trees, canes, used it as crane with a pulley, using it to stretch fencing, pulling my 70's electric forklift that just sinks every time it leaves hard surfaces, the list goes on.
As far as breaking the tractor in half. In my tractor, there is a sub frame on the engine for the front weights and to attach the front axle. Then there is the mid mounted ROPS brackets that tie this subframe to the bell housing the mid section of the transmission housing. Finally, when I built the loader, I added the supports that run under the tractor from the ROPS brackets all the way to the rear axle.
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