Nice work. It's fun to fix these, especially when all the parts are there. Those "locating dowels" are the shear pins, designed to shear before you put too much force on it, and you should have 3. The one I repaired last year was just missing some retainer things to hold the pins in place. On the T-516 I'm about to open up, it looks like one of the big pins has sheared.
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk That works, as long as you realize the pin won't shear. When everything is correct, they (correct ones) don't shear until around the limit of pulling with the correct handle. And that still has a 4x or 5x safety factor for the rest of the device and parts. I replaced my sheared pressed in pin joint (not something that should ever break) with a high strength bolt and spacer. But it has an OEM shear pin in line with it, that should be the weakest link.
Tirfor Comes from the french "tire fort" which means "pull hard" and un french this tool is still called a "tire fort". (I am french) Thank you for your amazing and interesting vidéos. Luc
I've never seen one of these. Clearly a handy/useful tool to have around-especially if you're in the habit of needing to get older, non-running tractors/equipment onto a trailer. Well done.
I bogged the falcon in a sandy place it shouldn't be, a phone call and an hour later I'm home getting my tirfor knock off ($100- cheers Repco!) Back out to self extract, air up the tyres and head home. Handy
Hey Marty, please get a set of Dyneema straps and a weighted blanket. Chains snap in nasty ways and there's only one of you. It's well worth the $800 bucks to keep both of your eyes.
The nice thing about using one of those for vehicle recovery is that you end up asking yourself "Do I really want to hand winch myself out of there?". That has kept me out of stupid situations several times.
I was down your way the last couple of days , in Nelson. Went out to Marahau in some free time I had. The car's windscreen was all iced up on Tuesday morning.
@@peterhaan9068 Interesting to hear that the relationship between North and South Islands is like that between Scotland and England :-). There was me thinking that NZ was all Peace and Love (LOL :-).
@@coniow It's just human nature... ;-) In a valley not far from my place they had a saying that was somewhat like this: Better a dead person in the house than a xxx (someone from the next province) at the door...
I worked for a "Engineers and Contractors" corporation, and they had a use, abuse and refuse policy for some equipment. During a lull I would attack many pieces of equipment that were exposed to the treatment (red tagged) and would break them down, soak and poke them and get them back to working condition. Paint and Tags cleaned too, back on the shelf with a green tag. 3 warehouses in 3 different regions in the US. Some of them were so old and rusted I set aside for when I could spend more time on them. Glad to see this video, brought back memories.
Hell yeah! Griphoists are near and dear to my heart, they're a huge part of trailbuilding. I've been inside our TU series Tirfor winches a bunch of times but they're all newer. Big HDPE slides inside the case that ride in grooves instead of the big rods, and somewhat lighter weight construction. The only knowledge I have to impart is that the pins in the handle should be soft aluminum. You can buy shear pins, but can also just find a piece of rod the right size and cut them down. I've seen people do bad things and put steel rod in there on old badly maintained hoists. Also feed it tons and tons of gear lube, or whatever other heavy oil you've got. They do best when they're dripping oil, as there's a massive amount of friction to deal with. I reassemble with grease, and then dump a little gear lube in it with every use. A disgusting oily griphoist that stinks of gear lube is a happy griphoist.
My wife has worked with a fella servicing them, your spot on with the grease! Basically clean the grit and apply fresh grease, there is a straight pull test to see if the jaws are worn, all replaceable, though not sure about Marty’s vintage.
On the other hand do not grease or lubricate if Tirfor is going to be exposed to dust or grit . Away back 50 years ago ,as apprentices in the coal mines, we were given the job of servicing and repair of them and all they got was a wee lick of diesel . It was quite the norm to find a 1/4" bolt hammered in for a shear pin . Miners were no respecters of S.W.L. .
I have 4 turfors. One T7 and 3 just like you are working on. My smaller T7 has pull my 3/4ton truck out of a few jams .I don’t go in the bush without one and a snatch block or 2 . They are worth there weight in gold. What I like about them is they pull on both strokes unlike a comealong and more versatile than a winch on your truck
I have its bigger brother, of about the same vintage. Its a T35 (lift 3T off the ground, pull 5 tonne). Extremely useful bit of kit. The correct wire rope to use in these is specially made, and does not use a soft synthetic or natural fibre core to lay the steel strands around. It uses another tiny steel wire rope. This makes the rope quite stiff, but ensures the rope cannot reduce in diameter and slip through the jaws when operating close to its maximum capacity. Handy tip: store your wire inside an old road bike rear tyre. Keeps it all neat and tidy and 100 times nicer to handle than the original 'catch on everything' SWR spider
Love these winches. I had a 75 foot Macracarpa with a 1 meter plus base leaning about 25 the wrong way. Put a 1/3 wedgecut in the front and a 1/3 back cut in it and have my weediest guy on my crew pull it over beacuse some guys said it wasnt possible! The best fun ive had in a while!
So few tool restorations on RUclips to get the tool to actually work! Refreshing. So many "restorers" put mirror finishes on everything and presumably never use it again for fear of scratching. More please!
Found one of these in a builders skip once. Just the hook was hanging out which looked useful enough to be worth taking, pulled on it and found the wire rope so thought I'd take that too, pulled all that out and found the winch as well. All working, within 24 hrs had found a use for it tensioning sheep netting
I have exactly the same winch and I have been using it to pull tree stumps out of the ground on my hillside but i have been working it much harder than you were. an old wheel barrow tire is an excellent place to store your wire rope in. I have wondered what they looked like on the inside, thanks for showing me.
Bit late to comment but the operation handle isn’t held on by locating pins. They should be brass shear pins so the handle just slips round the shaft rather than bending and breaking the internals or wirerope or whatever. Used them years ago for pull up rhododendron bushes in one go. Just bought a rusty old one on eBay for thirty quid because they’re three hundred odd. No rope but I won’t have lost out on the winch at that price! Looking forward to watching your vid now.
Just in case you’re curious the company that made these trifor winches is Westward. I have 2 of them that are 100% identical to yours and have used them for years in the tree removal business pulling trees. They are rated for 2 1/2 tons pulling and 1 1/2 tons lifting capacity and model number is S13. Great video!!
Hi, this is a 1.5 ton lift and 3 tom pull winch, The locating pins you mentioned are the sheer pins to prevent over load. Lubrication is with EP90 gear oil poured in the top once in a while. The cables should have a steel core (not fibre) and again should be lubed with gear oil,. I think they are 11mm and have a taper on the free end to make threading possible, cheers
I have always been a firm believer in pulling things apart when they stop working. You always learn something, (even if that is that you should have 'left well alone' :-), but if you can get it back together so it works, you save the cost of a replacement! If it doesn't, well, nothing lost in trying!
We used to carry these on fire engines; we had learn by heart all the stats of the different types we carried- those dowels are actually shear pins which break if it is overloaded
Invest in a genuine lever. They are telescopic and have a neat compartment for spare shear pins. Your tube handle looks a bit long. These were 30cwt or 5t winches, great for windblow or hung-up trees because there is no engine noise, you can hear everything going on. Also don't get metric cable rather than imperial, still works but may slip. Great vid, thanks.
Good advice thanks, I didn't have the right size cable so just used an old yacht stay, seemed to do the job but was a bit stiff and hard to carry around
The cable is specific to a Tirfor. It has a solid core to resist compression and distortion. Additionally snatch blocks need to have a large radius pulley so as not to over stress the cable core.
Ive got a modern one for vehicle recovery and clearing fallen timber offroading, and ripping out tree stumps at home. Every few years I pull it apart to clean and re-grease, and its always the same of figuring where all the parts go to put it back together. A snatch block is a great addition to these for doubling your pulling power.
@@MartyT Yeah, it was pretty rough up here in Kapiti, but no where as bad as you guys. Stay safe and keep the vids coming, they're always appreciated. 👍
Spent many an hour getting my Landrover 2A out of mischief with one of those... eventually replaced by an electric Warn winch so was never used again... sold it off a year or two after the electric. These were used by pretty much most of the experienced/senior members of the Canterbury Landrover Owners Club late 80's early 90's. On the reasonably regular new members days or training days there was always some use of these to make use people knew how to set up ground anchors, snatch blocks and rope etc. Great to see one of these iconic pieces of equipment getting the Marty T treatment!
I found one at our local tip shop which had been pulled apart, I need to make one of the connecting rod thinghys, you've inspired me to get in and fix it, mine was pulled apart because the brass failure pins had broken, there were spares in the handle.
1:18 the "locating dowels" are pins that will shear if you massively exceed the capacity of the winch - they break when you put too much elbow grease on the handle - some have spares in the handle. you can still slack the cable when they break.
It was in 1929 that Simon Faure developed and filed the first patent (FR687232) for a portable lifting and pulling device with passing cable, the latter marking a breakthrough innovation in the field of cable lifting devices. It was also in 1929 that Simon Faure registered, in France, the tirfor brand to designate this device, fruit of his invention.
Cool little portable winch. Suffering and I do mean suffering through high heat and high humidity here in NE Texas. Heat index in the danger zone way too much: 110 and higher. Ugh.Can't do much so please post more so I can at least watch your great videos.
Nice work m8. We used the trifor to pull quiet a few stumps out. Quiet handy with a long winch cable where its not easy to get too. We also pulled a truck out of a ditch lol.
I note that the lever on the side with the shear pins is held in place with a bolt and washer. Mine is a similar vintage without the bolt, or so it would seem. There is counter sink in the centre of the shaft. I think I’ll drill and tap that shaft and put a bolt and washer on it as the lever is prone to sliding off the shaft. Great video, thanks
I used a Tirfor in the Army to pull my Land Rover out of a bog, no problem. I said to the Sgt "That looks too soft to drive through, could you walk ahead to test the ground?". He was a skinny marathon runner and skipped over the mud. I followed in the Landy and sank straight in to it. :-(
Good job! What a lovely old winch. I was worried you were going to reassemble it without cleaning it for a minute there. ;-) The Repair Specialist just put out a good video explaining how ultrasonic cleaners work.
I've had one of these for about 40 years. It is a great piece of kit, if you us a block system you'll be able to lift or move anything you need. Mine came with a wheel made of steel rod to roll up the cable for storage let me know if you'd like a picture so you can build one. John
With everything flopping about inside there it’s easy to take it apart but the trick is remembering the sequence putting it back together. Beautiful job as usual, Marty.
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cool stuff marty, i watched a doco where a bloke pulled a drowned land rover out of a river with one of these
I LOVE it when he gets things going again.
Nice work. It's fun to fix these, especially when all the parts are there. Those "locating dowels" are the shear pins, designed to shear before you put too much force on it, and you should have 3. The one I repaired last year was just missing some retainer things to hold the pins in place. On the T-516 I'm about to open up, it looks like one of the big pins has sheared.
This was an ex rental....
so those suspiciously ferrous-appearing "shear pins" were the "extra tough" rental version...the "non shear" pins
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk That works, as long as you realize the pin won't shear. When everything is correct, they (correct ones) don't shear until around the limit of pulling with the correct handle. And that still has a 4x or 5x safety factor for the rest of the device and parts. I replaced my sheared pressed in pin joint (not something that should ever break) with a high strength bolt and spacer. But it has an OEM shear pin in line with it, that should be the weakest link.
this guy man is there anything he can't fix
So much more satisfying than the mirror finish and powder coat guys trying to make a practical tool into a museum piece.
Your ability to diagnose and repair everything constantly amazes me Marty
I agree. You have an intuitive mechanical sense. Plus, I like your modest, calm approach. Very well done.
I KNOW RIGHT
He always knows just what to do
It may be old but it still do the job and you save money by fixing it to make it work
Nice work,Sir! 👏
the smell of the Pine tree's mixed with bush on a cool day , can't beat it .
gday marty. good job on the tirfor. sounded like typical rain on the coast at the start. lol..
Tirfor Comes from the french "tire fort" which means "pull hard" and un french this tool is still called a "tire fort". (I am french)
Thank you for your amazing and interesting vidéos. Luc
i would say " pull strong " pull hard would be "tire dur"
The Americans call this a come along.
moi aussi je suis français !!
@@Francis59flq Et moi donc !!!
@@bobrobert6277 Heavy door please pull hard.
"Free is my kind of price" your speaking to the choir my man!
303k subscribers....the cream always rises to the top.
Wow what cool come-a-long. I have never seen one before very interesting. I Google it up the new ones are crazy expensive as in $3,000 for a new one.
I've never seen one of these. Clearly a handy/useful tool to have around-especially if you're
in the habit of needing to get older, non-running tractors/equipment onto a trailer. Well done.
From one Kiwi to another..Congratulations on 300k Marty!!
I bogged the falcon in a sandy place it shouldn't be, a phone call and an hour later I'm home getting my tirfor knock off ($100- cheers Repco!) Back out to self extract, air up the tyres and head home. Handy
Gotta say Marty Your Ace, and the good thing is nothing is too much trouble, hope the Family are settling into the new Home
That ultrasonic cleaner is a device well worth having.
Hey Marty, please get a set of Dyneema straps and a weighted blanket. Chains snap in nasty ways and there's only one of you. It's well worth the $800 bucks to keep both of your eyes.
The nice thing about using one of those for vehicle recovery is that you end up asking yourself "Do I really want to hand winch myself out of there?". That has kept me out of stupid situations several times.
Hi Marty, the riggers where I used to work used to dump them in a bucket of oil after use, rough and ready.
That makes sense
Like your slow and logical approach to problem solving.
Interesting piece of kit the ultrasonic cleaner and it only uses ionised water,
Marty used diesel fuel as the cleaning liquid
"that fuels getting hot"...
I was down your way the last couple of days , in Nelson. Went out to Marahau in some free time I had.
The car's windscreen was all iced up on Tuesday morning.
The day I found your fixit channel made me a happy person. Your skills and disposition are the top of the heap.
I'd have thought you'd just spray it with your diesel/oil concoction and thrown it in the truck...job done boyee!
You could put the ferry out of business with that by pulling the north and south islands together.
A bigger 'tirfor' might actually be able to do that... :-)
I have a newer one, my father bought it; now I looked up how much they cost... :-O
I strongly suspect that the South Island wishes it could move further away rather than closer to the political cesspit of Auckland!
@@peterhaan9068 Interesting to hear that the relationship between North and South Islands is like that between Scotland and England :-).
There was me thinking that NZ was all Peace and Love (LOL :-).
@@coniow It's just human nature... ;-)
In a valley not far from my place they had a saying that was somewhat like this: Better a dead person in the house than a xxx (someone from the next province) at the door...
@@namulit that's why there are two islands, separation.
How quickly you figured this thing out is incredible
We used to have them at Hirepool, and they survived the customers gentle ministrations, so they're well made.
Not cheap new.
I worked for a "Engineers and Contractors" corporation, and they had a use, abuse and refuse policy for some equipment. During a lull I would attack many pieces of equipment that were exposed to the treatment (red tagged) and would break them down, soak and poke them and get them back to working condition. Paint and Tags cleaned too, back on the shelf with a green tag. 3 warehouses in 3 different regions in the US. Some of them were so old and rusted I set aside for when I could spend more time on them. Glad to see this video, brought back memories.
GREAT video,loved it Marty!!!!
What always amazes me is the engineering that went into something like this winch.
Used one of these winches to pull a sled loaded with a crashed Blackburn Skua out of a mountain lake in Norway, brilliant kit!
Hell yeah! Griphoists are near and dear to my heart, they're a huge part of trailbuilding. I've been inside our TU series Tirfor winches a bunch of times but they're all newer. Big HDPE slides inside the case that ride in grooves instead of the big rods, and somewhat lighter weight construction.
The only knowledge I have to impart is that the pins in the handle should be soft aluminum. You can buy shear pins, but can also just find a piece of rod the right size and cut them down. I've seen people do bad things and put steel rod in there on old badly maintained hoists.
Also feed it tons and tons of gear lube, or whatever other heavy oil you've got. They do best when they're dripping oil, as there's a massive amount of friction to deal with. I reassemble with grease, and then dump a little gear lube in it with every use. A disgusting oily griphoist that stinks of gear lube is a happy griphoist.
My wife has worked with a fella servicing them, your spot on with the grease! Basically clean the grit and apply fresh grease, there is a straight pull test to see if the jaws are worn, all replaceable, though not sure about Marty’s vintage.
On the other hand do not grease or lubricate if Tirfor is going to be exposed to dust or grit . Away back 50 years ago ,as apprentices in the coal mines, we were given the job of servicing and repair of them and all they got was a wee lick of diesel . It was quite the norm to find a 1/4" bolt hammered in for a shear pin . Miners were no respecters of S.W.L. .
" Give me a long enough lever..and a place to stand..and I could move the world".. Archimedes
I have 4 turfors. One T7 and 3 just like you are working on. My smaller T7 has pull my 3/4ton truck out of a few jams .I don’t go in the bush without one and a snatch block or 2 . They are worth there weight in gold. What I like about them is they pull on both strokes unlike a comealong and more versatile than a winch on your truck
Yet another item on your I-can-probably-fix-most-anything list!
I have its bigger brother, of about the same vintage. Its a T35 (lift 3T off the ground, pull 5 tonne). Extremely useful bit of kit.
The correct wire rope to use in these is specially made, and does not use a soft synthetic or natural fibre core to lay the steel strands around. It uses another tiny steel wire rope. This makes the rope quite stiff, but ensures the rope cannot reduce in diameter and slip through the jaws when operating close to its maximum capacity.
Handy tip: store your wire inside an old road bike rear tyre. Keeps it all neat and tidy and 100 times nicer to handle than the original 'catch on everything' SWR spider
LOL .. 'Free is my kinda price' ... that's our Marty 🤣👍
Love these winches.
I had a 75 foot Macracarpa with a 1 meter plus base leaning about 25 the wrong way.
Put a 1/3 wedgecut in the front and a 1/3 back cut in it and have my weediest guy on my crew pull it over beacuse some guys said it wasnt possible!
The best fun ive had in a while!
So few tool restorations on RUclips to get the tool to actually work! Refreshing. So many "restorers" put mirror finishes on everything and presumably never use it again for fear of scratching. More please!
Another great find and save by Marty. 🤔🥳🥳
I used one 50 years ago to lower a large display fridge down a flight of stairs onto my truck, marvellous bit of kit.
These repair have become my lockdown jam.
Great tools, you need the right rope and get an old motor bike tyre and feed the rope in for storage. Cheers
Lovely piece of kit
Never seen that type of wench before. Thanks for sharing.
To store a wire rope ,coil it inside an old tyre ,the tyre from a mini works well
Found one of these in a builders skip once. Just the hook was hanging out which looked useful enough to be worth taking, pulled on it and found the wire rope so thought I'd take that too, pulled all that out and found the winch as well. All working, within 24 hrs had found a use for it tensioning sheep netting
I have exactly the same winch and I have been using it to pull tree stumps out of the ground on my hillside but i have been working it much harder than you were. an old wheel barrow tire is an excellent place to store your wire rope in. I have wondered what they looked like on the inside, thanks for showing me.
Bit late to comment but the operation handle isn’t held on by locating pins. They should be brass shear pins so the handle just slips round the shaft rather than bending and breaking the internals or wirerope or whatever. Used them years ago for pull up rhododendron bushes in one go. Just bought a rusty old one on eBay for thirty quid because they’re three hundred odd. No rope but I won’t have lost out on the winch at that price! Looking forward to watching your vid now.
This was an ex rental....
so those suspiciously ferrous-appearing "shear pins" were the "extra tough" rental version...the "non shear" pins
Just in case you’re curious the company that made these trifor winches is Westward. I have 2 of them that are 100% identical to yours and have used them for years in the tree removal business pulling trees. They are rated for 2 1/2 tons pulling and 1 1/2 tons lifting capacity and model number is S13. Great video!!
Hi, this is a 1.5 ton lift and 3 tom pull winch, The locating pins you mentioned are the sheer pins to prevent over load. Lubrication is with EP90 gear oil poured in the top once in a while. The cables should have a steel core (not fibre) and again should be lubed with gear oil,. I think they are 11mm and have a taper on the free end to make threading possible, cheers
Nice seeing you fix the winch :-)
I have always been a firm believer in pulling things apart when they stop working. You always learn something, (even if that is that you should have 'left well alone' :-), but if you can get it back together so it works, you save the cost of a replacement! If it doesn't, well, nothing lost in trying!
We used to carry these on fire engines; we had learn by heart all the stats of the different types we carried- those dowels are actually shear pins which break if it is overloaded
Here in Germany this is called "Greifzug" ("grip puller"), works neat with it's own dedicated piece of cable!
Great find!
:-D
Never seen one of these before. Nice piece of engineering!
Invest in a genuine lever. They are telescopic and have a neat compartment for spare shear pins. Your tube handle looks a bit long. These were 30cwt or 5t winches, great for windblow or hung-up trees because there is no engine noise, you can hear everything going on. Also don't get metric cable rather than imperial, still works but may slip.
Great vid, thanks.
Good advice thanks, I didn't have the right size cable so just used an old yacht stay, seemed to do the job but was a bit stiff and hard to carry around
For a second I thought you was talking about his screen name on [yt] and was confusion
@@jam2190 I admit to the same thought. 🙄😎🤦♀️
The cable you need I think is half inch Maxiflex.
The cable is specific to a Tirfor. It has a solid core to resist compression and distortion. Additionally snatch blocks need to have a large radius pulley so as not to over stress the cable core.
A good wench, I mean winch is hard to find! Thumbs up for MartyT.
You will use that so much now that you have it. What a great tool!!!
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed! Really cool old winch, never seen one before👍 Great find👍👍
Good for another fifty years!
Ive got a modern one for vehicle recovery and clearing fallen timber offroading, and ripping out tree stumps at home. Every few years I pull it apart to clean and re-grease, and its always the same of figuring where all the parts go to put it back together. A snatch block is a great addition to these for doubling your pulling power.
Made to last
Made to be repaired
Respect Marty
I hope the new house wasn't flooded out, if you live near the river.
No but a few houses nearby got washed down the hill, it was a savage storm
@@MartyT
Yeah, it was pretty rough up here in Kapiti, but no where as bad as you guys.
Stay safe and keep the vids coming, they're always appreciated.
👍
Bloody ripper mate, well done.👍🇦🇺
Spent many an hour getting my Landrover 2A out of mischief with one of those... eventually replaced by an electric Warn winch so was never used again... sold it off a year or two after the electric. These were used by pretty much most of the experienced/senior members of the Canterbury Landrover Owners Club late 80's early 90's. On the reasonably regular new members days or training days there was always some use of these to make use people knew how to set up ground anchors, snatch blocks and rope etc. Great to see one of these iconic pieces of equipment getting the Marty T treatment!
Interesting piece of kit. Never seen anything like it.
That is a nice winch to get ahold of.
I found one at our local tip shop which had been pulled apart, I need to make one of the connecting rod thinghys, you've inspired me to get in and fix it, mine was pulled apart because the brass failure pins had broken, there were spares in the handle.
This is more my speed Marty T...I get lost in the electronics videos. 😎
Nice video again...good job sir..
I remember seeing those advertised in Popular Mechanics back in the 1960s here in the U.S. , you managed to salvage a good working piece.
Nice find, excellent fix!
1:18 the "locating dowels" are pins that will shear if you massively exceed the capacity of the winch - they break when you put too much elbow grease on the handle - some have spares in the handle. you can still slack the cable when they break.
It was in 1929 that Simon Faure developed and filed the first patent (FR687232) for a portable lifting and pulling device with passing cable, the latter marking a breakthrough innovation in the field of cable lifting devices.
It was also in 1929 that Simon Faure registered, in France, the tirfor brand to designate this device, fruit of his invention.
Wow that was a great rebuild!
Cool little portable winch. Suffering and I do mean suffering through high heat and high humidity here in NE Texas. Heat index in the danger zone way too much: 110 and higher. Ugh.Can't do much so please post more so I can at least watch your great videos.
Marty, you never fail to amaze me !!!!!
What a Beauty, that's a good find Marty.
I have also a Tirfor and used it so many times during decades! Greetings from Finland.
Another quite literally gripping video bro. All the best from the Waikato
These are a great winch, they work forwards or backwards, amazing for what they are.
Viewed 6-2-21 11:21 AM from USA Hi Marty........you find unique items to restore :-)
Nice work m8. We used the trifor to pull quiet a few stumps out. Quiet handy with a long winch cable where its not easy to get too. We also pulled a truck out of a ditch lol.
what a great memory on where all the parts go and how they work......always giving new life to broken machinery .....well done Marty
never seen such a cool winch 👍👍
Thats so cool I've never seen one before
For such a small winch I can't believe how strong that thing is
I note that the lever on the side with the shear pins is held in place with a bolt and washer. Mine is a similar vintage without the bolt, or so it would seem. There is counter sink in the centre of the shaft. I think I’ll drill and tap that shaft and put a bolt and washer on it as the lever is prone to sliding off the shaft. Great video, thanks
I’ve just done that to mine, used a 12mm M6 bolt. Mine has two shear pins, not three like the winch in the vid.
I used a Tirfor in the Army to pull my Land Rover out of a bog, no problem.
I said to the Sgt "That looks too soft to drive through, could you walk ahead to test the ground?". He was a skinny marathon runner and skipped over the mud. I followed in the Landy and sank straight in to it. :-(
Loving the background rains sounds
Hey Marty. A paint job on the casing would have been nice. Nice bright Orange. Good job tho.
Good job! What a lovely old winch. I was worried you were going to reassemble it without cleaning it for a minute there. ;-)
The Repair Specialist just put out a good video explaining how ultrasonic cleaners work.
I've had one of these for about 40 years. It is a great piece of kit, if you us a block system you'll be able to lift or move anything you need. Mine came with a wheel made of steel rod to roll up the cable for storage let me know if you'd like a picture so you can build one. John
That tree went down incredibly easy.
Tirfors are great. Especially for righting a vehicle you’ve rolled. Don’t ask me how I know…
Been there, done that !!
They sure are. Ask me how I know.
😬
How do you know
@@mrwhips3623 I spent some years as a rescue medic. Sometimes cars need rolled over.
The locating pins in handle are shear pins that should break before the internal pins. I've used tirfor winches for years used in the bush.
With everything flopping about inside there it’s easy to take it apart but the trick is remembering the sequence putting it back together. Beautiful job as usual, Marty.
Always nice to have the right tool for the job.