Sawmill and Timber

Forestry, Logging and Building => Timber Harvest Equipment => Topic started by: jab73180 on June 02, 2011, 10:02:24 PM

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Title: building a 3 point logging winch
Post by: jab73180 on June 02, 2011, 10:02:24 PM
hey, im new to the forum.  i thought i would post some pics of the winch i am building. (http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j429/jab73180/Logging/IMG_20110515_163203.jpg) 

a few facts about the winch.  it is a ramsey 15000 lb winch with free spool.  its larger than i needed but all i could find.  i got the idea on a different forum.  it works well but it is large and heavy for the small tractor of my dads.  but it is good to over engineer and eventually get a bigger tractor. 

well thanx for looking and talk to you later.
Title: Re: building a 3 point logging winch
Post by: joasis on June 03, 2011, 03:59:54 AM
Welcome to the forum!

Looks like you are doing a great job...are you driving the winch with a larger sprocket then the one on the winch shaft?
Title: Re: building a 3 point logging winch
Post by: HaroldCR - AKA Fla.-Deadheader on June 03, 2011, 04:40:37 AM

 Looking good. I need to do something more portable. I don't have a tractor, just a bunch of trees and a mill  ::) ::)
Title: Re: building a 3 point logging winch
Post by: jab73180 on June 03, 2011, 10:23:46 AM
Quote from: joasis on June 03, 2011, 03:59:54 AM
Welcome to the forum!

Looks like you are doing a great job...are you driving the winch with a larger sprocket then the one on the winch shaft?

I am running a larger gear. Behind that large gear is a hydraulic motor. The difference between the 2 gears is 1.66. 

The only problem is I don't have enough hydraulic flow to the directional valve and motor so it isn't as fast as I was hoping.  A pto pump will fix that.
Title: Re: building a 3 point logging winch
Post by: Kirk Allen on June 03, 2011, 10:46:53 PM
You can use a power steering pump for more fluid push as I have seen quite a few systems like that on several farm operations of different sorts.
Title: Re: building a 3 point logging winch
Post by: jab73180 on June 04, 2011, 07:11:17 AM
Quote from: Kirk Allen on June 03, 2011, 10:46:53 PM
You can use a power steering pump for more fluid push as I have seen quite a few systems like that on several farm operations of different sorts.


That's a good idea.  I'm thinking it would have to be a large pump off a dump truck or something.
Title: Re: building a 3 point logging winch
Post by: Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" on June 14, 2011, 04:17:49 PM
That brings back memories.  I used a winch off of a duce and a half for my tractors.  I ran the winch with a direct drive to the pto of the tractor and attatched a small arch arangement with a swing grapple hanging down.  I hooked the hydraulics to a third outlet in the tractor to operate the grapple.  The fist job I logged ten log truckloads and only set one chocker.