Hand winches

Can anyone recommend any good hand winches other than tirfors at all that don't cost the earth like tirfors do? Unless anyones got a tirfor they want to shift for the right price?

Cheers.

If you get the chance go to any local farm sale's, seen tirfors going cheap at them, failing that teach the missus how to use the hi lift .

I use my Hi-Lift ..

do a search on here and you will find a thread on winches. In there is a like to ebay and a guy who sells reconditions tirfor's for ok money.

Others that are good are Black Rat, there are other copies out there but some not as good.

Yeah, I'll shop around. I mean I could get a high lift or something and all the kit for winching but all that stuff would almost come to the price of just getting a tirfor.
Reckon this would be ok? Or as handles and the wire hard to come by?
TIRFOR WINCH LIFTING EQUIPMENT on eBay (end time 05-Jul-09 17:45:16 BST)

Also, does this cheapy one look any good or complete ****e?
4 TON CABLE PULLER rope winch hoist turfer tirfor hook on eBay (end time 27-Jul-09 19:15:32 BST)

Here you go TU 16 £135 plus £18 P&P

As above I got my Tirfor at a farmer/contractors plant auction last year for £12 but it cost £35 to have it overhauled + rope + hook, so £47 in total not bad I thought.

Get a Tirfor. or an equivalent winch. Don't get the cheap wire pullers off ebay they are ****e. If trewy hadn't had his tirfor with him on Monday My 90 would still be lying on it's side on a Cornish green lane.

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Sorry, but it cracks me up every time I think about it.

I may just get a hi-lift and some beefy chain and shackles. Then I have a winch and a high lift jack. Hmm...

Treworgey 90 said:

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Sorry, but it cracks me up every time I think about it.

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Think it cracked me up anorl. Had gut rot since Monday. Got shower yesterday & I've got a 8" long bruise across me ribcage. & another smaller one just below me tits.

jmattley said:

I may just get a hi-lift and some beefy chain and shackles. Then I have a winch and a high lift jack. Hmm...

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Hilift wouldn't have helped in this case. Tirfor made it so simple. If you go out regularly with a few mates why not chip in and share the cost.

redhand said:

& another smaller one just below me tits.

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just below yer belly button then?

Treworgey 90 said:

just below yer belly button then?

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Aye not far away!!! Reckon it was the seat belt or the edge of the steering wheel cos it, slopes up diagonally.

jmattley said:

I may just get a hi-lift and some beefy chain and shackles. Then I have a winch and a high lift jack. Hmm...

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Hi-Lift is very hard work as you have limited pull before have to re-adjust. Better getting 2nd hand Tirfor or a Black Rat but don't get one of the cheapy no brand ones.

Vinnie110 said:

Hi-Lift is very hard work as you have limited pull before have to re-adjust. Better getting 2nd hand Tirfor or a Black Rat but don't get one of the cheapy no brand ones.

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I quite agree, and having used my Hi-lift as a winch a couple of times I'd love a Tirfor (I used to use them down t'pit so know their capabilities) But for something that I'm unlikely to need except in dire circumstances I can't justify the cost to me.

Now a snorkel ...

Yeah, snorkel is the next job for me I reckon. Oh and tirfor, and sticking on me light bar and new tyres and welding the boot floor and the rear arches and getting a CB radio. Good times!
Something to do till I got back to uni eh!

... and, and, and ... that's a Landy, always something needed/wanted/broken ...

Paul D said:

I quite agree, and having used my Hi-lift as a winch a couple of times I'd love a Tirfor (I used to use them down t'pit so know their capabilities) But for something that I'm unlikely to need except in dire circumstances I can't justify the cost to me.

Now a snorkel ...

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I have both a hand winch and a high lift but as stated real hard work particularilly on your own, you need three lengths of heavy angle and chains to link em then pound the bastids into the ground, coz there aint gona be a tree when you get fooked. Then you get covered head to foot in ****e

Wish I had bought an electric one, much easier sitting in the vehicle controlling it as you winch it out.

That's true, fancy lending me £600?