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Turfer hand winches.

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Turfer hand winches.

Post by muppet_man67 »

perhaps its a sill question but Im not exactly sure how they work. Can you use synthetic winch rope with a turfer?
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Post by holeyhardtop »

no. mine uses a steel cable, if it was synthetic the gripping jaws would tear/shred it to pieces.

handy bit of gear though and got me out of trouble many times but bloody hard work ;) .
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Post by BundyRumandCoke »

Muppet
No, definately not. Tirfors, of whichever size you have, and the many different copies out there now (since the original patent expired) must be used with the original wire rope, or an exact duplicate. They work by alternately gripping the rope between 2 sets of jaws. As previously stated, not only would these rip the rope to shreds, but you would not be able to get the rope loaded into the winch in the first place.
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Post by muppet_man67 »

thankyou I assumed as much but wanted to check anyhow Its an old one very big and weighs a ton. I reckon it wouldnt be too hard to winch a zook with one though.
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