I've been on the lookout for a cheap secondhand high mount that I could disassemble and take the brake shaft away to work with me to drill and tap the brake shaft on the lathe, later on I could then clean up and sell the second winch, be a good little project as I do fly in fly out work, 6 weeks on, 6 weeks off so have time on my hands.
I advertised on Gumtree and local Tassie 4wd forums, while I was in with the engineer picking up my mod plate and engineers report this morning got a call from someone saying they had a winch just like the one I pictured in the Gumtree ad, and was wanting $200 for it. It had apparently been in storage for about 10 years and was in a shipping container with some of his dads old stuff. You can imagine my surprise as it was unearthed from under the gear stored on top of it.
The winch.
Adapter that he machined.
ID plate on hydraulic motor.
Pump/reservoir.
Good as new inside.
It was apparently mounted to a Landrover with a PTO setup which would explain the lack of solenoids for forward/reverse or a clutch system on the pump.
Didn't get to speak to the creator of this machine, just posted the pics up here because as someone who loves to have a play on the lathe ( an ametuerish play at that) I was really impressed with the thought and machining that had gone into this, so thought i'd share the pics regardless of how practical it may be. Although I'm told it had been use.
Plan is just to whack a electric motor back onto it.
