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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Fucking mud. Not what I was planning to do today.

Unstuck with the help of a tree and some ratchet straps.

Must remember not to park there, between the cycling between freezing and thawing a lot and the soft ground there, the car sunk in on its own, just standing there.

Car with muddy front wheels, seemingly freed from the mud by rocking, but actually not. A pit where the front wheels where a meter behind is full of churned up mud.
Scene after actually freeing the car. Two lanes of mud trenches where the wheels were, with chunks flung around. Some branches at the front, a blue ratched strap leading off to a big apple tree behind.
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Stevan

@yngmar You did that on purpose because you miss getting anchor gunk all over you, didn't you?

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@withaveeay The part where you do that in your swimwear, throw a few buckets of ocean over the deck and then jump into the warm sea to clean yourself off is sorely missing right now 😛

Instead I got my nice winter work gloves full of frozen muck 😡

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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

@yngmar
Always worth having a good reliable hand winch.

I have four of these old 80s Telco mini hoists (among many many other winches and hoists...). far more effective than the modern versions.
These are rates at 250kg single, or 500kg double line for lifting.

The cheap modern ones are the same rating but only for pulling so they are crap.

The first one I bought rescued my Land Rover many times back in the 80s and is still my go to winch/hoist for many small jobs, including getting our new washing machine up a flight of stairs recently!

Two Telco Mini Hoist Pullers. They are small black cable hoists operated by a lever on a ratchet. One is very well used and bought by myself in the mid 1980s. The other is new old stock complete with a box and instructions.
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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

@yngmar
3 Ton is a lot of winch!

6 ton is even more winch! 😉

I have just been repairing a Yale PT 750kg lever hoist I bought at an autojumble.
Someone has taken it apart and put the chain in the wrong way around, so the hook is at the wrong end.

The data place on a yellow Yale D85 chain hoist showing the rating is 6 tons.
The same 6 ton Yale D85 chain hoist laid out on the floor showing its size is huge, next to a big black tool box and a vibration plate compactor, and even bigger with all its chains and the hefty pulley block on the end.
A yellow, short handle, Yale PT 750kg lever hoist. The chain is wrapped around the handle and it is a bit grubby and abused. It is placed in the boot of a car.
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@Maker_of_Things Well, the 1.5 ton looked a bit feeble and like on the boat, it must have more than one use to be a justifyable expense! :)

Like hanging on the garage ceiling to lift an engine block or a chunk of concrete out of the garden. I'm sure I'll find use for it!

That Yale looks a lot sturdier than the Chinese thing 😁

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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

@yngmar
Yeah, more can always be justified a few decades down the line. 😉
But a hoist is only as strong as the support you hang it from.

I am never quite sure if a second hand Yale would be better than a new Chinese brand. It depends on how abused the used one is.
But I am sure that weight is a good give away for how 'strong' it will be. The Yale 3 ton is a kilogramme heavier than the Yato

Having said all that, a Yale 3 ton with 3 metre lift is about £950+VAT new.

My 6 ton is 33kg, and I paid £45 for it on Ebay.
No idea if it is still safe at 6 tons lifting, but it very safe at 3 tons pulling.

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@Maker_of_Things Well, that's the other reason to buy a size up :)

I go by what I know (from anchoring), which is the size of the chain links. Hopefully the gears are made to match that!

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@Maker_of_Things Oh, another use I had in mind was convincing a certain tree to fall this way and not that way, without needing a massive old bulldozer 😜

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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

@yngmar
I used to do that just by pulling with the car and had the back wheels off the ground a few times.

A small 12V winch is also useful with tree moving.

A view through a wooden gaate. A green estate car is back up near the gate and it's tailgate is raised. Inside are a collection of hand winches and ropes, one hand winch has been left on the ground. Hooked onto the towball is a small electric winch. The cable is run out towards the camera and through the gate way.
A view from the bottom of a garden looking up at a very steep rise, lined with trees. A long heavy blue rope attacehd top the winch line, is run down the garden, bein redirected by a tree, adn then hooked onto the end of a logging arch. The winch on the car in the previous image is pulling a log up the steep garden and around the trees.
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@Maker_of_Things Yeah, I don't need to fix a crushed car roof 😁

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@Maker_of_Things Looking at your photos, that's a proper Ants Pants sketchy setup worth making a youtube video from 😁

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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

@yngmar
Haha, yes, but that was back in the days when phones didn't take good video.

This was the tree, dying and covered in ivy. It was right down on a steep slop at the bottom of the garden by the steel fence, so I was dropping it up hill. Beyond the fence was a shear drop to a river, and I really didn't want it going that way. But I did it without roping it, just dropped it the 'natural' way.

I promised the client I could drop it without hitting the shed or the bench, which I managed. There was one barrel planter that had rooted solid and wouldn't move and I told her the tree would land on it. And it did. But that was just luck.

A landscape of tall thin trees. The birch tree in the middle is covered in ivy and to be brought down. Behind is a view across a river valley to some other housing.
The same point of view as before but looking downwards into the garden. An ivy covered tree is now cut down and lying across the image from its base on the right to the start of its crown on the left. Beyond the base of the fallen tree as steel fence can be seen down a steep slope that leads to a deep river. There are flower beds on the right of the fallen tree and shrubs the other side.
A view down the garden to the crown of the fallen tree. The branches are bare and very twiggy. There is a small plastic shed just beyond the reach of the tree crown, and next to it is a small bench. In the background is a wooden panel fence, while in the foreground is a steeply sloping lawn, down to the fallen tree.
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@Maker_of_Things Ah, very tricky stuff!

Mine is tricky too and I can't use a longer rope because that would mean running it across the road, which could interfere with traffic! ;-)

So the lever hoist would be ideal, because it can probably handle being hit by a tree better than a car.

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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

@yngmar
This is where I suggest a small 12V electric winch, with wireless remote control, and a battery.
That way, you don't need to be standing there working the winch as the tree falls towards you!

Well, it's an excuse for more toys.... 😉

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Filomel

@yngmar Was that what the concrete block was for?

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@Filomel Oh, the one in front of the house? No, too small for a car, might've fit a motorcycle :)

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