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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: TDi90 on October 30, 2006, 17:00:02
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they any good? worth getting?
anyone got one?
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If You mean mechanical PTO Winch then yes have lots of experiance using them at work, Like every winch there are davantages and disadvantages.
With a mechanical winch you can forward winch in all 5 gears and payout in reverse, the superwinch ones found on most utility rovers can pull about 6 ton and can ofetn be found fairly cheap on ebay for the complete package.
To buy new they are very expensive around 3-4K I belive. Just becarefull buying secondhand as I belive drive shaft spares can be expensive
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Yup i have one on my truck, they are very very strong and as said can winch in all gears, high/low diff lock/unlock or neutral box, they are idealy a two man operation though as the winch speed is controlled by gears/throttle, and the free spool can be a tad hard to get into neut5ral when then einch is under load, i find its best to clutch in and spool out a little bit.
For long periods of serious winching they are supposed to be good, nothing to overheat, but i beleave hydraulic are the way to go, if you can afford one, only problem with a PTO is of course, if your engine is stalled/dead, you have no winch.....
CHeers
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would im thinking, because i might need to run some farm machinery too, anyone know anything about PTO's on landys, can winches be put on etc etc... ceers. Rob
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would im thinking, because i might need to run some farm machinery too, anyone know anything about PTO's on landys, can winches be put on etc etc... ceers. Rob
Mines a superwinch, it is fairly permanent, tis removable, buit allot of bolts etc to remove, mines on a 86 110 with retro tdi, and the pto tkae off is bolted to the back of the gearbox i think,,,
ABout as much as i know, was already on it whne i got the truck, can get some piccy's taken if you like...
CHeers