Big Haul Hand Winch Help Needed

Put the winch into netural and feed the cable through the front end (narrow end) continue to pull cable through until the slack is taken up engage the gear lever and commence your weight loss circuit.
The gear lever is the one that the handle wont fit on. The 2 levers that the handle fits on are the forward and reverse levers.
Without pulling all my recovery gear out of the shed to activate neutral place the big haul on its end and push the gear lever down until it disengages, reverse for engaging.

Cheers Kev

I thinks I know your problem.

Engaging the gear lever is not a simple as just rocking it backward and forward. A considerable amount of down pressure is required to move it. Push down (toward the unit) and forward/backward at the same time. It was quite difficult to do on mine, so may be a 'new' winch issue. Once you disengage it, the rest is really easy, just thread cable through, engage and presto!

D-Jack

If you've got a truck with a big capacity motor (preferably) and a few metres of chain there is an easier way. Dig around the stump till you can get a drag chain through it, lock in low range and with a nudge of the go pedal the stump should be out on the ground in no time. Last year I even used my 2.8TD patrol to drag out a evolution green tree stump that weighed over 700kg. There was just a slight rumble from the little donk as the slack was taken up, touch of throttle (didn't even need the turbo)and she just drove forward easily till there was a crack (tree no truck that is!!!), stopped put it back into high 2 and dragged the stump down to the front yard. The next stump however was around the tonne mark and my good ol HJ75 4.0l diesel trayback was enlisted; plucked it out with only 1000rpm on the tacho in low range. I tried using a high lift jack on a horozontal pull but got the bleep es up as it was taking too long (was using the cruiser as the anchor anyway!) and enlisted the help of horsepower.

Also felt frigging awesome doing it too :)

I know this is of absolutely no help as to deciphering the indo-chio-arabica-espagol instruction manual, but it sure a quicker and easier way to do the same job. Good Luck with it

Ben

If you are using it in very dusty conditions, you may find that it will take up the tension and you will haul on the lever but the cable won't pull through.

Tipping a bottle of water into the body of the winch will wash the dust out and let the jaws grab the cable properly.

I found this out after 30 wasted minutes hauling on the bloody thing trying to pull out some stumps in a North Queensland summer.

And use a snatch block if you have one. That way you may have a heart attack, but it wont kill you ;-)

Jack,

I have a PDF copy of their Owners Guide in English, not Chinglish. email me at time at emailaccount dot com and I will email back a copy.

Cheers

Tim