Skidding winch

[Stomper]

I found the below video on a home made 3PH skidding winch. I have often wondered how these winches are designed. The one in the video seems to be real simple but yet effective. Are the commercial made winches using the same type of belt drive system or something else.

homemade logging winch - YouTube

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That's a home made tinker toy compared to my Wallenstein...

There are NO belts in real skidding winches, they are chain drive with a real clutch...

SR

 

[MNBobcat]

I would go to Harbor Freight and buy a &10,000 pound electric winch and get a good invertor for your tractor to power it

 

[4570Man]

That's a home made tinker toy compared to my Wallenstein...

There are NO belts in real skidding winches, they are chain drive with a real clutch...

SR

Maybe they didn’t want to spend more than the tractor was worth on a commercial winch. It’s a far better option than the HF electric winch mentioned in the above comment. Your tractor and winch is a joke compared to a real logging setup.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I found the below video on a home made 3PH skidding winch. I have often wondered how these winches are designed. The one in the video seems to be real simple but yet effective. Are the commercial made winches using the same type of belt drive system or something else.

homemade logging winch - YouTube

The drum and cable set up is similar to comnercial winches but lighter duty than most. And as said commercial winches have a heavy duty pressure plate clutch on the drum face and the speed reduction is gears and chain rather than pulleys and belt. But I must say he gets good control with that belt type clutch and it handled that log just fine. Seems clever and just right for that little old tractor.

gg

 

[John_Mc]

I would go to Harbor Freight and buy a &10,000 pound electric winch and get a good invertor for your tractor to power it

Well, then he'd be limited to the 65' cable on the winch, a maddeningly slow speed, and the 5% duty cycle of the winch (run 45 seconds under full load, then rest 14 minutes), he also wouldn't have the butt plate that anchors the winch during operation (and doubles as a grading blade in a pinch). Electric winches certainly have their place - emergency recovery operations, for example, but they are not really well suited to logging. Sure, you can make it work if that's what you have, but it's an exercise in frustration if you have any significant number of logs to deal with.

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's 10,000 "chinese" pounds. Probably less than half that in REAL pounds. And I don't get the inverter suggestion.

Regardless, not a big fan of doing heavy work with transistors at the consumer level.

How FAST does a 3ph logging winch go anyway? Do you run them mostly at idle or throttle them up to get more speed?

 

[Stomper]

I would go to Harbor Freight and buy a &10,000 pound electric winch and get a good invertor for your tractor to power it

I assure you that won't happen. I've pulled logs out of the bush with the winch on my quad and it way to slow for my liking.

 

[4570Man]

I would go to Harbor Freight and buy a &10,000 pound electric winch and get a good invertor for your tractor to power it

That’s got several flaws. No ground anchor, slow, pitiful duty cycle, charging system couldn’t support it even if it didn’t burn up, and you don’t need the inverter.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

How FAST does a 3ph logging winch go anyway? Do you run them mostly at idle or throttle them up to get more speed?

Fairly fast at idle and FAST when you speed the pto up to pto speed.

SR