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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: stumpy on April 13, 2006, 08:09:35 AM

Title: Adding power winch to WM loader
Post by: stumpy on April 13, 2006, 08:09:35 AM
I'm thinking of replacing the hand winch on my manual log loader/turner. What I'm not sure about is how to wire it as the battery travels with the saw head. Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Adding power winch to WM loader
Post by: WkndCutter on April 13, 2006, 08:29:03 AM
You could wire in a recepticle onto your mill to plug in the winch.  Ensure the winch power lead is long enough to run the winch from where the mill head will be when you load a log.  When you are done loading the log just unplug the winch and stow the leads out of the way till you need them next.  A snap cover on the recepticle will keep the saw dust out.  Just make sure you use big enough wire for the run and load.  I take power directly off the 7 pin from the back of my truck  with a 20' power lead.   Hope this helps.

Andy
Title: Re: Adding power winch to WM loader
Post by: footer on April 13, 2006, 09:20:57 AM
I hook mine to my truck for now. I don't use it all the time and just figured it would be the easiest to just plug it into the pickup.
Title: Re: Adding power winch to WM loader
Post by: KLH on April 13, 2006, 11:26:08 PM
What is the capacity of the manual winch you are taking off?
Title: Re: Adding power winch to WM loader
Post by: stumpy on April 16, 2006, 02:28:25 PM
It's the standard winch that came with the mill. I'd guess it's 1,000# to 1,500#
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