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Looking for a winch truck/line horse

Hallback

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Someone on here sent me a link to one earlier in the year but I cannot find it.
I am looking for a truck with a powered line spool that is stout enough to pull & spool 4000-5000 feet of 1" to 1-1/4" line.
Even just the line winder is an option also.
 

bccat

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Truck Guys BC, Donovan, 1 888 600 2872, it’s been on Craigslist for a long time, can,t remember what it went for, looked very solid. Like the ad says it needs a bath.
 

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How are they? Do they pull very hard? I want it to change skylroads with.
Do they hold much line?
 

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American Line Builders had a shop here, stored several trucks like that one. Still have a drop deck loaded
with line winches just setting probably 20 years now. Trucks are long gone, all custom built.
 

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They are more Tugger than Weight Capacity, where do need weight capacity for length of Pull line. If need a Winch for Heavy Weight Buy a Oil Field Truck with a Ballast Box.
 

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Details on the winches?

American Line Builders had a shop here, stored several trucks like that one. Still have a drop deck loaded
with line winches just setting probably 20 years now. Trucks are long gone, all custom built.
 

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The ones art the Utility I worked at were NOT qualified that high, most were Rope Winch sets to decrease line weight and pulled ACSR cable.(Alum Conductor Steel Reinforced) not exactly light but notably less than Steel cable same dimension. The other point was they anchored the trucks with Pole Line Anchors when situated to keep from lifting them off the ground.
 
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If you only want to pull 10,000 lbs, why do you want such big cable? I don't know anything about the logging side, but I can imagine you don't want to be replacing all the time, and the getting stuck tugging logs uphill?. The problem is weight.

A 3/4" cable is over 10k cap. at a 5 to 1 design factor. At only a little over a lb. per foot. Even that if you want to pull out 5,000 ft. you have 5,000 lbs.

1 1/4" is 2.89 lbs per ft. so 5,000 ft. of it is 14,500lbs. And is going to take a lot bigger drum to hold it.

6,000' of 1 1/4" is more like marine/ offshore big deck winches, there would be a few real large lattice rigs that would have drums that size, but its pretty specialized.

I'm not being critical, just curious. Because if you want to pull 10k with 1 1/4" cable at that length, you actually need to be able to pull more like 25k just for cable weight. The more you want to pull the slower it goes.
 
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