Re: [MV] Electric winches

shantyboat (shantyboat@mcione.com)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:33:03 -0400

The platform truck winch is only pulling the car 15 feet onto the truck.
Even so, all those I've seen here have been hydraulic. I used to drive one.
All utility crews, loggers, and anyone who depends on a winch every day for
continuous use will have nothing else but PTO or hydraulic. If an electric
sits idle for long periods, it too will develop problems, and sooner than
hydraulic which of course is full of oil. There are many more things to go
wrong like brushes, commutators, relay contacts, and corroded connections.
A PTO winch will work all day, every day and not let you down. An electric
will soon overheat and quit on a long hard pull, usually about the same
time as your battery and alternator go into meltdown on a hot day.
If your argument is that hydraulic systems fail while in storage, then you
will not need a winch because your brakes, power steering, and automatic
transmission will have failed as well.

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> From: Andreas Mehlhorn <a.mehlhorn@t-online.de>
> To: shantyboat@mcione.com
> Cc: mil-veh@skylee.com
> Subject: [MV] Electric winches
> Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 5:45 AM
>
> shantyboat schrieb:
>
> > Don't do it. Electric winches aren't much count anyway. Ever see the
> > military use them? If you want a winch that works, go pto or hydraulic.
>
> In Germany all commercial wreckers use electric winches to tow broken
> down cars on their platform trucks. Ok, these are 24V winches and not
> those from the DIY-store.
>
> The army likes electric winches much more than hydraulic winches:
> In our area is a company who builds mobile antenna masts, most for
> civil and military use worldwide. The small ones are on one axle
> trailers (4 tons total weight), the big ones are on four axle (8x8)
> trucks with 32 tons total weight. For civil use these masts were
> equipped with hydraulic winches. The army prefers electric winches,
> even if they are much more expensive.
> They say, hydraulic equiment causes trouble, when stored over a long
> time.
>
> Regards
> Andreas
>
>
>
>
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