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[reedentrprz]

i can't get the winch to stand the poles up, is there a certain distance the bottom sheave has to be placed, or what is the trick?

 

[RPW]

You'll need to be more specific about your question so we can help you.

 

[reedentrprz]

i have 10ft poles mounted in the bed of my pickup. right at the back of the bed (tailgate), 8000lb worm drive ramsey, they are live poles flipped forward resting on the headache rack, the winch will not flip the poles forward on it's own with out me helping pick them up first. i don't know why they won't flip forward with the winch.

 

[dieselscout80]

Are you using a pulley to double line it?

 

[reedentrprz]

yes, cable through bottom sheave, then to top sheave,then to bumper.

 

[rus_geek]

Might just be me, but I'm having a hard time picturing what you've got set up. Can you post a picture or your setup, or even a doodle?

 

[rjmack]

one quick look at the angle of the dangle should tell the story.

think of the arc that the attaching point on the boom travels... does it intially swing away from the winch?

 

[jayste]

There's a lot of oilfield winch trucks around here and usually they're rigged this way...

 

[jbooth]

There's a lot of oilfield winch trucks around here and usually they're rigged this way...

I am hoping to use jayste picture. If your set up looks like the picture set up, there is no reason your poles shouldn't pull up. We always used chains as the brace "guy" system instead of the cables in the picture. The chains allowed changing the angle of the dangle by pulling one "guy" chain and adjusting the other and then evening the other up. The only way I know of getting the poles back on the headache rack is to slack off the winch line, pull the guy chains until the poles break over center and then let them down with the winch.

Words of Caution;
1. Chains as the guy braces are probably not as safe as the cables.
2. Don't put to much slack in the winch line when pulling/putting back on the headache rack or you will have a crash.
3. Pull out on the guy chains or push down, don't try to pul staight on the guy chains or you will get a hernia. It's a geometry thing and I don't have the intelligence or time to try and explain it.
4. Some systems used another set of chains at the bottom of the poles to keep the poles from going back to the headache by backing into something with the winch line loose.

 

[reedentrprz]

my truck is set up just like the picture in the post, common winch truck set-up