winches

Willem
Re winching sideways
I just replied to another post here (about getting bogged) and said that my experience in winching sideways resulted in breaking the side rollers!
The troopy was quite heavy when we got bogged with full fuel and water tanks plus all our gear. The boggy soil was like wet cement so I suppose it was a bit beyond what the rollers were designed for!?
Subaru Forester
"size isn't everything"

Colin,
No, I have not broken any rollers yet! I will admit that the four or five times I have had to winch sideways I was driving lighter 4bies. The thing is to help the vehicle along if winching sideways by applying a slow bit of throttle. Depend of course what sort of winch anchors you have at your disposal at the time. Once at night I ended up on a ledge balancing the vehicle delicately, with a 5 metre drop off and the closest tree was behind the drivers door. I ran the cable against the side of the front wheel(with the wheel on full lock) to reach the tree and very gently inched the vehicle away from danger. My passenger was a mess!! We got out of trouble and camped where we were in the vehicle with the cable still tied to the tree!!
Cheers,
Willem

Always going somewhere

Mate I have a real old truck with my winch rollers quite low down. A couple of tree branches underneath and one can do the winch job. You can do anything if you really want to. Have even had to straighten a draglink using that method. Maybe with the modern 4by itis not possible.
Cheers,
Willem

Always going somewhere