Ox hydraulic winch again

Hi,

@Goran, whit should be the advantage of an electric winch ? Which one is nearly as powerfull as an OX or an MM ? The electric winches in the 5-6 ton class are much heavier, a second batterie is a must and it cannot work for a long time.
I had several electric winches, the best one was WARN 8274, because of the speed and the 45 m cable. All my electric winches had a lot of problems at all. so I changed to a 5.7 ton Milemarker must be nearly the same as OX ?? No problems, more power, less weight. I'm happy.

I hope, I understood that question correctly (German) ?? There is not enough power ??
Do you use an external hydro-pump or a power take off at the steering.
My Winch needs about 130 bar and 15 l oil per min. The standard steering pump delivers only 65-75 bar, Toyota and Nissan a bit more, but normally not enough. I use a ZF 74 pump, it solved all problems :-)

Regards Ralf

Well, main advantage of electric winch is abillity to winch without running the motor. Without dedicated hydraulic pump ( not power steering pump) hydraulic winches are pretty useless.

Goran,
I agree that the leccy winches will work without the motor running.....but I wouldn't like to do it for more than about 1 or 2 minutes under load; otherwise you'll never get the vehicle started again!
Just my opinion. I've got a Warn 9000 and wouldn't dream of using it without motor running except in major emergency (like somebody trapped underneath etc; heaven forbid!!!)
Gerk, sorry to hear this new set-up isn't going as well as it should. I've never heard (until today) that there was ANY issue with a standard Power Steering pump not having enough grunt to do the job properly. Funny how these sort of aspects only come to light after the decision has been made and the job completed.
I'll call over later today and see it for myself.

RE: hydraulic winchs.

Whats the advantage of the Hydro winch?

All I can think of is that Hydraulics can be used more continuasly with less operating temprature oposed to the lecys.
What are the other andvantages?

I will take 2 minutes over dead winch half way in the creek crossing anytime. Do you know the ratio of winch type in off road competitions ?
50:1

Paul,
No worries.....you forgot to mention that the dude also filled the power steering box back up with hydraulic fluid instead of Dexron III fluid. Great move that was!!!

We'll now have to put it to a real test....

Cya