mountainguyed67
Gold Member
I broke three 1/2” cables on the last two trips, pulling stumps. I‘m looking at increasing cable size to avoid that. I did some research. 1/2” cable breaks at 19,000 lbs, 5/8” breaks at 29,000 lbs, and 3/4“ breaks at 40,000 lbs. I’m thinking the only limiting factor is I don’t want the cable stronger that what holds what it’s attached to onto the loader. All three breaks went away from the loader, two being thrown past the stump up in the manzanita. It has me thinking about expanded metal over the back window.