Winches and snowplowing
Feb 5, 2000 | 11:08 PM
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Several of us have experinced the problem of poor cable life due to bad rewind of winch cables when repeatedly lifting a snow plow. Cables fray and ultimately break, they also wind poorly and kind of kink themselves far beyond the couple of feet used for the plowing operation.
Warn customer service (very professional) reccomended an "actuator" for snow plowing. It is said to be a motor driven device which mounts to the plow and has cable up to the machine center. Its made specifically for the plow and costs about 1/3 of Warn's ATV 2000 winch.
The question - anybody got any experience with one of these? Actual cost, reliability, etc..?
Alternatively, has anyone solved the cable problem with conventional winches?
Warn customer service (very professional) reccomended an "actuator" for snow plowing. It is said to be a motor driven device which mounts to the plow and has cable up to the machine center. Its made specifically for the plow and costs about 1/3 of Warn's ATV 2000 winch.
The question - anybody got any experience with one of these? Actual cost, reliability, etc..?
Alternatively, has anyone solved the cable problem with conventional winches?
Feb 6, 2000 | 08:43 AM
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Go to:http://www.atvpartsdepot.com/atvpart...inmounkit.html They have what you are looking for. Their price $148 plus some change. Hope this helps.
Feb 17, 2000 | 09:39 PM
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I got my blade mounted today. I tried it out and could see right away that the winch cable was going to be a problem.
I had an old come a long that was trashed so I took it apart and robbed the cable off of it. Then I unspooled the winch cable and took it off and put the cable from the come a long on. Now there isn't enough cable on the spool to cause me any trouble when using the plow. I realize that this is kind of a pain but if you do a bunch of plowing chances are you will need to unspool and respool your cable anyway.
I had an old come a long that was trashed so I took it apart and robbed the cable off of it. Then I unspooled the winch cable and took it off and put the cable from the come a long on. Now there isn't enough cable on the spool to cause me any trouble when using the plow. I realize that this is kind of a pain but if you do a bunch of plowing chances are you will need to unspool and respool your cable anyway.
Feb 17, 2000 | 09:47 PM
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I got my blade mounted today. I tried it out and could see right away that the winch cable was going to be a problem.
I had an old come a long that was trashed so I took it apart and robbed the cable off of it. Then I unspooled the winch cable and took it off and put the cable from the come a long on. Now there isn't enough cable on the spool to cause me any trouble when using the plow. I realize that this is kind of a pain but if you do a bunch of plowing chances are you will need to unspool and respool your cable anyway.
I had an old come a long that was trashed so I took it apart and robbed the cable off of it. Then I unspooled the winch cable and took it off and put the cable from the come a long on. Now there isn't enough cable on the spool to cause me any trouble when using the plow. I realize that this is kind of a pain but if you do a bunch of plowing chances are you will need to unspool and respool your cable anyway.
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