I am looking for a compact 120V portable puller that uses synthetic rope. Any reason why I can't retrofit this with appropriate sized winch rated rope instead of wire rope / cable? The comments on these say they only have 15 feet of cable storage . . . I bet if I retrofit with synthetic rope with 1000lb working capacity, it would likely only hold 5 - 8 feet of rope . . . that wouldn't work.
I would actually prefer a capstan style but not having much luck with anything quite as cost effective as this. I don't need it to hold after pulling, just pull and then done.
Any ideas?
A peg-down or cable anchored capstan (or windlass) sounds like exactly what you DO need. Length of the working line (that stuff Stuart linked looks an awful lot like what my last several arborists have been using on my (former) oak and maple tree removals), is "indefinite" as it doesn't GET spooled. YOU have to lay it, "Bristol" or sloppy. I recommend "Bristol".
Might find a used 12 or 24-volter at a marine salvage, then adapt for anchoring to a deadman or such via a static-length cable.
One of my tree guys has a hand-cranked one that mounts to a trialer-hitch receiver socket. He puts his truck safely far enough away, uses it for "pull down" guidance on some types of tree removal.
Arborist supply might have those. His was store-bought, not shop-fabbed.
I have another. Also hand-cranked, but uses wide, flat ribbon strap. One splices to other cordage.
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Some of these are dirt-cheap. One can use two or three in line to get greater total travel and have it NOW. Steel cable, of course.
The "is there any reason", BTW, has to do with drum/cordage crush/wedging and the rating of the braking/locking mechanism just as much as it does the raw pulling-power.
Note the stress makers place on a winch for a bumper and a hoist, for an overhead beam, NOT being interchangeable goods, same rating or otherwise.
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