Best battery size for HF 25000# winch for log skidding

[2458n]

Learned winches of the electrical type are worthless venture back in high school. Started out with small Superwinch. Currently used on snowmobile trailer to load rolling riding mowers. A on sale 279 dollar HF 12,000 lb. gives you the same feelings 40 years later.

 

[Deere Dude]

Learned winches of the electrical type are worthless venture back in high school. Started out with small Superwinch. Currently used on snowmobile trailer to load rolling riding mowers. A on sale 279 dollar HF 12,000 lb. gives you the same feelings 40 years later.

:thumbsup: Some people gotta pee on the electric fence to find out for themselves. They are cheap enough so WTH.

 

[Industrial Toys]

It's ALL in the Sound!

The ONLY thing better is an Electric Trolling Motor, Bad Cells in Deep Cycle Battery, 12 Foot Aluminum boat, two canoe paddles on a deserted lake on a windy day, with Man And Woman that Apparently Hate each others guts. AND, only one place on the entire lake where you can get out, which is the point of entry. Ask me how I know that?

 

[fried1765]

It's ALL in the Sound!

The ONLY thing better is an Electric Trolling Motor, Bad Cells in Deep Cycle Battery, 12 Foot Aluminum boat, two canoe paddles on a deserted lake on a windy day, with Man And Woman that Apparently Hate each others guts. AND, only one place on the entire lake where you can get out, which is the point of entry. Ask me how I know that?

So..oo...oo ...... How.. DO... you know that ????

 

[wagne223]

Electric winches are designed to be easily installed to vehicles and trailers when compared to hydraulic winches.

Electric winches are also designed for occasional use such as pulling a vehicle from a mud hole.

An electric winch is not a good tool for skidding logs.

 

[4570Man]

Hydraulic winches have the advantage of continuous duty cycle, but are usually still slow. Most winches that has a decent line speed are PTO driven rather it's a truck or a tractor.

 

[John_Mc]

I'd probably fall asleep using an electric winch for logging. Under anything approaching full load, they run less than 10 FPM. Plus as others have mentioned, that duty cycle limitation is a deal breaker for anything but short pulls. Even unloaded they are generally less than 20FPM. My PTO-driven logging winch will do over 200 FPM (possibly up to around 250 or 300??), but I generally am not running at full 540 RPM PTO speed.

The electric winches do have their place, but for logging-related uses they are more suited to parbuckling for loading a trailer or other short pulls.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Best battery size for HF 25000# winch for log skidding

Motor cycle batt., that way your batt. will go dead just before you burn the winch motor up... lol

SR

 

[Gitche Gumee Kid]

Thank you members ( at least the majority ) for helpful advice that has steered me away from wasting several hundred hard earned dollars.
It looks like I may have to bite the bullet and invest in a PTO driven logging winch.

It's always good to tap into experience.We all can't be experts on every subject.
Thanks again.

GGK

 

[Garandman]

We don’t skid out that many logs, so I make do with a long section of arborist rope and a snatchblock. Hook it up, drive down the trail, back up over the rope, curse, pull forward again, pull rope out of way, back up again....