Has anyone here had any experience with one of these? They are suppose to be rated to 1500kg and thought that it may be ok just to throw in the back of the car.
Paul

http://www.bushranger.com.au/emergency_hand_winch.php

Not very effective way of being recovered. Great if you have about three weeks and are not going uphill. There is no way to back of the load and release the ratchet system. You have to pull the car forward off the winch so that the weight can be relived so that the ratchet can be released. VERY VERY hard to do going up a hill. Trust me. and that was just pulling a XY falcon up a concrete driveway.

I would recommond a hand winch like a cable type tirfor. Here is a brand new one for sale cheap

http://auszookers.com/index.php?name=Fo ... =black+rat

You would be surprised what you can do with one of these, and they can actually be let out under load, they are designed to do so, it is slow yes but not as slow as waiting for someone to drive up the track where you are stuck.

Has anyone seen the demo at the ekka where the dude uses a couple of bent pieces of metal and feeds a rope around it to obtain a ratio advantage. He then gets a kid from the audience to lift a V8 engine 5 feet off the ground using this simple rope winch.

I was so impressed i bought one for $20, we have played with it and it is great, you can pull a suzuki off the ground and it fits in the glove box.

I will get a demo filmed for fun.

You would be surprised what you can do with one of these, and they can actually be let out under load, they are designed to do so, it is slow yes but not as slow as waiting for someone to drive up the track where you are stuck.

Has anyone seen the demo at the ekka where the dude uses a couple of bent pieces of metal and feeds a rope around it to obtain a ratio advantage. He then gets a kid from the audience to lift a V8 engine 5 feet off the ground using this simple rope winch.

I was so impressed i bought one for $20, we have played with it and it is great, you can pull a suzuki off the ground and it fits in the glove box.

I will get a demo filmed for fun.

You would be surprised what you can do with one of these, and they can actually be let out under load, they are designed to do so, it is slow yes but not as slow as waiting for someone to drive up the track where you are stuck.

Has anyone seen the demo at the ekka where the dude uses a couple of bent pieces of metal and feeds a rope around it to obtain a ratio advantage. He then gets a kid from the audience to lift a V8 engine 5 feet off the ground using this simple rope winch.

I was so impressed i bought one for $20, we have played with it and it is great, you can pull a suzuki off the ground and it fits in the glove box.

I will get a demo filmed for fun.

jonno_racing which type was it??? let us know how it goes as i am keen to see how it goes? maybe do a write up on it or some tests in the driveway etc and give us opinions of build quality.... who knows you might of started a trend....

the cheaper eBay alternative shall (might) prevail!!!

i do remember once recovering jazzors zook with one! worked well.. i was like we are going to use WHAT at the time.. but it pulled it the 6inches it needed without a issue!

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/2-Ton-Heavy-Duty ... 27b457a4d7

thats the one i bought.

Hmmm that actually looks pretty good for the price... my only concern is that the handle looks like pretty thin sheet metal... and where the cable is secured on near the crimp, also looks like pretty thin metal also... is this the one you used to recover the zook ?... what are your opinions of it and the construction ?

i once walked for 5 hours in the freezing cold and rain with 6 mates due to both 4wd's getting stuck at exactly the same time. if the walk didnt kill us the waiting 3 hours for help sure as hell nearly did! we were lucky that there is a 24 hour saw mill out there and the Japanese guy was nice enough to let us use the phone! the funny part was nither cars were very stuck.. i got pulled out buy a 4wheeler! LITERALLY! i vowed to get something simple like this... never know it might save your/my life!