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Winches Again
Mudlark:
--- Quote from: "Devon-Rover" ---I think I'll stick to my trusty MAP Capstan winch :lol: all 4000Ibs on a single line.
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So how do you get on with a capstan? rumour has it they are purely two man winches But what winch isn't in a challenge :wink: :lol:
Bulli:
i just cant wait to see this capstan winched shogun competing :shock:
Mudlark:
--- Quote from: "Bulli" ---i just cant wait to see this capstan winched shogun competing :shock:
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It just so happens that I've got a river close by with lots of abandoned sailing thingies on it so capstan winches tend to be cheap :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Besides which if I mount a capstan between the front seats I can run two ropes One front and One back but I only have one winch so it's not modified see :roll: :roll: :roll: :lol:
Bulli:
hmmm, you will need a hell of a lot of strengthening to mount one winch to go either way. It would be diff to the way ibexes do it where they use a snatch block to run round...the chassis needs loads more bracing.
Im not sure how safe that would be... i wouldnt want to be anywhere near it..imagine getting dragged into the car????
just because something is cheap doesnt make it good.
Devon-Rover:
Yes the capstan can be is a two man but mainly used for the recovery of the other poor unfortunates who get stuck, one chap just the run the rope out and then to be at the landy to operate it. And your right for self recovery i think it's a bit of a no no, As whilst one chap steers the other has to be out hold the line coming off the bollard. so putting himself in danger by being close to the taught rope.
All capstans though made by MAP / FWL were only a 2,500Ib pull IIRC so then there is more chance of the shear pin going than the rope snapping.
My winch was origanlly on my dad's IIA and he knew the enginers at the time in the early 70's as he was doing testing work for the overdrives. And he told them that he kept breaking shear pins when recovering other landies and once a stuck county tractor. :shock:
They went away and came back with a special set of shear pins which will take 4,000Ib pull, and to this day my dad still has the certificate to prove that the winch will take the pull. I think we still have piccies of my dad's old landy in the early seventies with the winch in action.
The other bonus is that he got a HD winch bumper to. Made of apporx 6 mill steel I haven't managed to bend it yet. and hitting trees either stops the landy or makes the tree fall over :)
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