One other comment, based on the pulling power of this winch I would say that it was at its limit at 6000 pounds. It didn't overheat but that was probably due to the fact that it is very slow and I did not keep trying to kill it after I got the truck off the ground.
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Anthony
2002 Land Rover Discovery 2- Sold in Texas before moving to cold country
1995 Discovery 1 RIP (Evil daughter abuse)
1995 Discovery 1
Tex; Please join SNHLR so you can see how many Series trucks are actually in New England alone. And so that somebody can train you how to offroad, drive, recover, trail-ride, green-lane, fish, hunt, breathe, live, etc... RESPONSIBLY. Before you hurt yourself, or MORE IMPORTANTLY, someone else. Or worse...
Way ahead of you and he'll be a snhlr member on sunday. I look at it as a personnel challenge to train young grasshopper.
Tex no we'll be at least 1000 yards off
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Way ahead of you and he'll be a snhlr member on sunday. I look at it as a personnel challenge to train young grasshopper.
Tex no we'll be at least 1000 yards off
Well that seems to be settled for the best . It has been a litte difficult for me not to get involved in this thread especially with some of the advise and misguided comments that have been made by a certain participant.
Cheers.
The Land Rover community has to take care of each other....
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One other comment, based on the pulling power of this winch I would say that it was at its limit at 6000 pounds.
Like any drum winch, it only has it's rated capacity with one layer of cable on the drum (layer, not wraps). If you've only got about 20' of cable payed out, an 8.000lb winch would only be capable of pulling about 4500-5000lbs.
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Tom Rowe
Atlanta, GA
Four wheel drive allows you to get stuck
in places even more inaccessible.
62 88 reg
67 NADA x2
74 Air Portable - The Antichrist (tag 6A666)
95 D1
95 D90
Anthony came out with us on Sunday and I can safely say learned a lot about winching, kinetic ropes, recovery techniques, and off road driving techniques.
He got to see a few winch recoveries some simple some complex using snatch blocks, additional vehicles to anchor the winch rig and tree saver straps etc(what can I say if I'm going to break my rig I'm going to make it interesting). He also got to be on the receiving end of a recovery as well.
All and all I think a good working respect for winch use was achieved to everyones benefit not just his.
His whole family came out for the day with us and got to see and learn as well and I think his wife might have even been bitten by the Rover bug.
When I get some free time tonight I'll post up pics of the event.
So all's well that ends well.
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It took a SNHLR member to hang his vehicle out of a tree....how embarrassing...LOL !!! We'll learn this boy some manners New Hampshire style!!! By teaching.
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