Tirfor Comes from the french "tire fort" which means "pull hard" and un french this tool is still called a "tire fort". (I am french) Thank you for your amazing and interesting vidéos. Luc
I've never seen one of these. Clearly a handy/useful tool to have around-especially if you're in the habit of needing to get older, non-running tractors/equipment onto a trailer. Well done.
I worked for a "Engineers and Contractors" corporation, and they had a use, abuse and refuse policy for some equipment. During a lull I would attack many pieces of equipment that were exposed to the treatment (red tagged) and would break them down, soak and poke them and get them back to working condition. Paint and Tags cleaned too, back on the shelf with a green tag. 3 warehouses in 3 different regions in the US. Some of them were so old and rusted I set aside for when I could spend more time on them. Glad to see this video, brought back memories.
So few tool restorations on UA-cam to get the tool to actually work! Refreshing. So many "restorers" put mirror finishes on everything and presumably never use it again for fear of scratching. More please!
@@peterhaan9068 Interesting to hear that the relationship between North and South Islands is like that between Scotland and England :-). There was me thinking that NZ was all Peace and Love (LOL :-).
@@coniow It's just human nature... ;-) In a valley not far from my place they had a saying that was somewhat like this: Better a dead person in the house than a xxx (someone from the next province) at the door...
I have 4 turfors. One T7 and 3 just like you are working on. My smaller T7 has pull my 3/4ton truck out of a few jams .I don’t go in the bush without one and a snatch block or 2 . They are worth there weight in gold. What I like about them is they pull on both strokes unlike a comealong and more versatile than a winch on your truck
I have always been a firm believer in pulling things apart when they stop working. You always learn something, (even if that is that you should have 'left well alone' :-), but if you can get it back together so it works, you save the cost of a replacement! If it doesn't, well, nothing lost in trying!
Love these winches. I had a 75 foot Macracarpa with a 1 meter plus base leaning about 25 the wrong way. Put a 1/3 wedgecut in the front and a 1/3 back cut in it and have my weediest guy on my crew pull it over beacuse some guys said it wasnt possible! The best fun ive had in a while!
Found one of these in a builders skip once. Just the hook was hanging out which looked useful enough to be worth taking, pulled on it and found the wire rope so thought I'd take that too, pulled all that out and found the winch as well. All working, within 24 hrs had found a use for it tensioning sheep netting
Invest in a genuine lever. They are telescopic and have a neat compartment for spare shear pins. Your tube handle looks a bit long. These were 30cwt or 5t winches, great for windblow or hung-up trees because there is no engine noise, you can hear everything going on. Also don't get metric cable rather than imperial, still works but may slip. Great vid, thanks.
Good advice thanks, I didn't have the right size cable so just used an old yacht stay, seemed to do the job but was a bit stiff and hard to carry around
The cable is specific to a Tirfor. It has a solid core to resist compression and distortion. Additionally snatch blocks need to have a large radius pulley so as not to over stress the cable core.
I have exactly the same winch and I have been using it to pull tree stumps out of the ground on my hillside but i have been working it much harder than you were. an old wheel barrow tire is an excellent place to store your wire rope in. I have wondered what they looked like on the inside, thanks for showing me.
Nice work. It's fun to fix these, especially when all the parts are there. Those "locating dowels" are the shear pins, designed to shear before you put too much force on it, and you should have 3. The one I repaired last year was just missing some retainer things to hold the pins in place. On the T-516 I'm about to open up, it looks like one of the big pins has sheared.
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk That works, as long as you realize the pin won't shear. When everything is correct, they (correct ones) don't shear until around the limit of pulling with the correct handle. And that still has a 4x or 5x safety factor for the rest of the device and parts. I replaced my sheared pressed in pin joint (not something that should ever break) with a high strength bolt and spacer. But it has an OEM shear pin in line with it, that should be the weakest link.
Hell yeah! Griphoists are near and dear to my heart, they're a huge part of trailbuilding. I've been inside our TU series Tirfor winches a bunch of times but they're all newer. Big HDPE slides inside the case that ride in grooves instead of the big rods, and somewhat lighter weight construction. The only knowledge I have to impart is that the pins in the handle should be soft aluminum. You can buy shear pins, but can also just find a piece of rod the right size and cut them down. I've seen people do bad things and put steel rod in there on old badly maintained hoists. Also feed it tons and tons of gear lube, or whatever other heavy oil you've got. They do best when they're dripping oil, as there's a massive amount of friction to deal with. I reassemble with grease, and then dump a little gear lube in it with every use. A disgusting oily griphoist that stinks of gear lube is a happy griphoist.
My wife has worked with a fella servicing them, your spot on with the grease! Basically clean the grit and apply fresh grease, there is a straight pull test to see if the jaws are worn, all replaceable, though not sure about Marty’s vintage.
On the other hand do not grease or lubricate if Tirfor is going to be exposed to dust or grit . Away back 50 years ago ,as apprentices in the coal mines, we were given the job of servicing and repair of them and all they got was a wee lick of diesel . It was quite the norm to find a 1/4" bolt hammered in for a shear pin . Miners were no respecters of S.W.L. .
Ive got a modern one for vehicle recovery and clearing fallen timber offroading, and ripping out tree stumps at home. Every few years I pull it apart to clean and re-grease, and its always the same of figuring where all the parts go to put it back together. A snatch block is a great addition to these for doubling your pulling power.
The nice thing about using one of those for vehicle recovery is that you end up asking yourself "Do I really want to hand winch myself out of there?". That has kept me out of stupid situations several times.
They are an amazing addition to any toolbox and I love how many of them are actually other Guy's pride and joy because they allowed them to move heavy things around with ease. I can't help myself acquiring a lot of these pieces and I have some much more modern ones but I did buy the exact same winch of the Daughter of a Brother who has made the journey to the big workshop in the sky and I am so happy to have his winch, now I know exactly what is inside thanks to your wonderful video. It is fitting that some of these guys' tools come to guys like us that can give them a new life where they are enjoyed all over again as often they end up in holes in the ground or thrown out for scrap just because the family ran out of interested tinkerers. Cheers Matey and thanks again for taking us along on your exploits
With everything flopping about inside there it’s easy to take it apart but the trick is remembering the sequence putting it back together. Beautiful job as usual, Marty.
I found one at our local tip shop which had been pulled apart, I need to make one of the connecting rod thinghys, you've inspired me to get in and fix it, mine was pulled apart because the brass failure pins had broken, there were spares in the handle.
Just in case you’re curious the company that made these trifor winches is Westward. I have 2 of them that are 100% identical to yours and have used them for years in the tree removal business pulling trees. They are rated for 2 1/2 tons pulling and 1 1/2 tons lifting capacity and model number is S13. Great video!!
What a result Marty, 1st free, 2nd ultrasonic cleaner, 3rd test items waiting, 4th now you can do a heck of a lot more without breaking yourself or the bank, take care Marty and family God bless from England
Spent many an hour getting my Landrover 2A out of mischief with one of those... eventually replaced by an electric Warn winch so was never used again... sold it off a year or two after the electric. These were used by pretty much most of the experienced/senior members of the Canterbury Landrover Owners Club late 80's early 90's. On the reasonably regular new members days or training days there was always some use of these to make use people knew how to set up ground anchors, snatch blocks and rope etc. Great to see one of these iconic pieces of equipment getting the Marty T treatment!
Please release more videos. You and Andrew Camarata are my 2 favorites to watch. Especially of you repairing things.....like when you repaired the excavator in the forest.
Dear Marty T. 👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always. It really seems that one can find quality only in old things meanwhile. Congrats for owning this strong and sturdy device/tool. And yes, for free is nearly always the best price. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all of you.
It was in 1929 that Simon Faure developed and filed the first patent (FR687232) for a portable lifting and pulling device with passing cable, the latter marking a breakthrough innovation in the field of cable lifting devices. It was also in 1929 that Simon Faure registered, in France, the tirfor brand to designate this device, fruit of his invention.
I have its bigger brother, of about the same vintage. Its a T35 (lift 3T off the ground, pull 5 tonne). Extremely useful bit of kit. The correct wire rope to use in these is specially made, and does not use a soft synthetic or natural fibre core to lay the steel strands around. It uses another tiny steel wire rope. This makes the rope quite stiff, but ensures the rope cannot reduce in diameter and slip through the jaws when operating close to its maximum capacity. Handy tip: store your wire inside an old road bike rear tyre. Keeps it all neat and tidy and 100 times nicer to handle than the original 'catch on everything' SWR spider
Well just so easy when you do it, I have two a big one and a frozen smaller one that I found at the sea side in the bush that I was kinda apprehensive to open up. Well now I have no fear. Congrats on 300 k always so happy to watch and listen to your calm way of being. Thanks Marty from an island on the other side of the globe
I was down your way the last couple of days , in Nelson. Went out to Marahau in some free time I had. The car's windscreen was all iced up on Tuesday morning.
Used to use one of these for tree surgery and the biggest test we had was getting the rope high enough up the tree. Too low and it would pull the stump out sideways! Great bit of kit; immensely powerful.
Another fine job done , bit of ingenuity , time and patience , is all it takes to solve most problems . Top man marty . Keep up the excellent work and content . From GB .
Nice job. The really useful bit about Tirfors is using the other lever position ,releasing the load ,be it a tree or truck ,under full control. Much better than a Monkey puller or capstan winch which give little control paying out cable. I work with trees, rivers and boats and this feature is almost more useful than its tremendous pulling power with the cable always firmly held by one or other of the jaws.
Nice work m8. We used the trifor to pull quiet a few stumps out. Quiet handy with a long winch cable where its not easy to get too. We also pulled a truck out of a ditch lol.
I note that the lever on the side with the shear pins is held in place with a bolt and washer. Mine is a similar vintage without the bolt, or so it would seem. There is counter sink in the centre of the shaft. I think I’ll drill and tap that shaft and put a bolt and washer on it as the lever is prone to sliding off the shaft. Great video, thanks
Absolutely amazing bits of kit! I wouldn’t be without mine even though I don’t use it that often. I think you should give it a proper test now and start rescuing the island tractor 😜
We carried one of those on every pumping appliance in Greater Manchester FS and they gave excellent service for many, many years. An excellent piece of kit and very versatile.
We used to carry these on fire engines; we had learn by heart all the stats of the different types we carried- those dowels are actually shear pins which break if it is overloaded
You make it look too east, Marty! I am on my third trip to the hardware store for a leaky toilet tank and I wish you were my neighbor or my brother-in-law! I love your channel!!
Your ability to diagnose and repair everything constantly amazes me Marty
I agree. You have an intuitive mechanical sense. Plus, I like your modest, calm approach. Very well done.
I KNOW RIGHT
He always knows just what to do
I LOVE it when he gets things going again.
Tirfor Comes from the french "tire fort" which means "pull hard" and un french this tool is still called a "tire fort". (I am french)
Thank you for your amazing and interesting vidéos. Luc
i would say " pull strong " pull hard would be "tire dur"
The Americans call this a come along.
moi aussi je suis français !!
@@Francis59flq Et moi donc !!!
@@bobrobert6277 Heavy door please pull hard.
Gotta say Marty Your Ace, and the good thing is nothing is too much trouble, hope the Family are settling into the new Home
I've never seen one of these. Clearly a handy/useful tool to have around-especially if you're
in the habit of needing to get older, non-running tractors/equipment onto a trailer. Well done.
From one Kiwi to another..Congratulations on 300k Marty!!
gday marty. good job on the tirfor. sounded like typical rain on the coast at the start. lol..
Nice work,Sir! 👏
Another great find and save by Marty. 🤔🥳🥳
The day I found your fixit channel made me a happy person. Your skills and disposition are the top of the heap.
the smell of the Pine tree's mixed with bush on a cool day , can't beat it .
So much more satisfying than the mirror finish and powder coat guys trying to make a practical tool into a museum piece.
What always amazes me is the engineering that went into something like this winch.
I worked for a "Engineers and Contractors" corporation, and they had a use, abuse and refuse policy for some equipment. During a lull I would attack many pieces of equipment that were exposed to the treatment (red tagged) and would break them down, soak and poke them and get them back to working condition. Paint and Tags cleaned too, back on the shelf with a green tag. 3 warehouses in 3 different regions in the US. Some of them were so old and rusted I set aside for when I could spend more time on them. Glad to see this video, brought back memories.
Used one of these winches to pull a sled loaded with a crashed Blackburn Skua out of a mountain lake in Norway, brilliant kit!
Lovely piece of kit
So few tool restorations on UA-cam to get the tool to actually work! Refreshing. So many "restorers" put mirror finishes on everything and presumably never use it again for fear of scratching. More please!
You could put the ferry out of business with that by pulling the north and south islands together.
A bigger 'tirfor' might actually be able to do that... :-)
I have a newer one, my father bought it; now I looked up how much they cost... :-O
I strongly suspect that the South Island wishes it could move further away rather than closer to the political cesspit of Auckland!
@@peterhaan9068 Interesting to hear that the relationship between North and South Islands is like that between Scotland and England :-).
There was me thinking that NZ was all Peace and Love (LOL :-).
@@coniow It's just human nature... ;-)
In a valley not far from my place they had a saying that was somewhat like this: Better a dead person in the house than a xxx (someone from the next province) at the door...
@@namulit that's why there are two islands, separation.
You will use that so much now that you have it. What a great tool!!!
How quickly you figured this thing out is incredible
I have 4 turfors. One T7 and 3 just like you are working on. My smaller T7 has pull my 3/4ton truck out of a few jams .I don’t go in the bush without one and a snatch block or 2 . They are worth there weight in gold. What I like about them is they pull on both strokes unlike a comealong and more versatile than a winch on your truck
GREAT video,loved it Marty!!!!
I used one 50 years ago to lower a large display fridge down a flight of stairs onto my truck, marvellous bit of kit.
what a great memory on where all the parts go and how they work......always giving new life to broken machinery .....well done Marty
"Free is my kind of price" your speaking to the choir my man!
These repair have become my lockdown jam.
I have always been a firm believer in pulling things apart when they stop working. You always learn something, (even if that is that you should have 'left well alone' :-), but if you can get it back together so it works, you save the cost of a replacement! If it doesn't, well, nothing lost in trying!
Love these winches.
I had a 75 foot Macracarpa with a 1 meter plus base leaning about 25 the wrong way.
Put a 1/3 wedgecut in the front and a 1/3 back cut in it and have my weediest guy on my crew pull it over beacuse some guys said it wasnt possible!
The best fun ive had in a while!
Found one of these in a builders skip once. Just the hook was hanging out which looked useful enough to be worth taking, pulled on it and found the wire rope so thought I'd take that too, pulled all that out and found the winch as well. All working, within 24 hrs had found a use for it tensioning sheep netting
Invest in a genuine lever. They are telescopic and have a neat compartment for spare shear pins. Your tube handle looks a bit long. These were 30cwt or 5t winches, great for windblow or hung-up trees because there is no engine noise, you can hear everything going on. Also don't get metric cable rather than imperial, still works but may slip.
Great vid, thanks.
Good advice thanks, I didn't have the right size cable so just used an old yacht stay, seemed to do the job but was a bit stiff and hard to carry around
For a second I thought you was talking about his screen name on [yt] and was confusion
@@jam2190 I admit to the same thought. 🙄😎🤦♀️
The cable you need I think is half inch Maxiflex.
The cable is specific to a Tirfor. It has a solid core to resist compression and distortion. Additionally snatch blocks need to have a large radius pulley so as not to over stress the cable core.
I have exactly the same winch and I have been using it to pull tree stumps out of the ground on my hillside but i have been working it much harder than you were. an old wheel barrow tire is an excellent place to store your wire rope in. I have wondered what they looked like on the inside, thanks for showing me.
Nice work. It's fun to fix these, especially when all the parts are there. Those "locating dowels" are the shear pins, designed to shear before you put too much force on it, and you should have 3. The one I repaired last year was just missing some retainer things to hold the pins in place. On the T-516 I'm about to open up, it looks like one of the big pins has sheared.
This was an ex rental....
so those suspiciously ferrous-appearing "shear pins" were the "extra tough" rental version...the "non shear" pins
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk That works, as long as you realize the pin won't shear. When everything is correct, they (correct ones) don't shear until around the limit of pulling with the correct handle. And that still has a 4x or 5x safety factor for the rest of the device and parts. I replaced my sheared pressed in pin joint (not something that should ever break) with a high strength bolt and spacer. But it has an OEM shear pin in line with it, that should be the weakest link.
cool stuff marty, i watched a doco where a bloke pulled a drowned land rover out of a river with one of these
Hell yeah! Griphoists are near and dear to my heart, they're a huge part of trailbuilding. I've been inside our TU series Tirfor winches a bunch of times but they're all newer. Big HDPE slides inside the case that ride in grooves instead of the big rods, and somewhat lighter weight construction.
The only knowledge I have to impart is that the pins in the handle should be soft aluminum. You can buy shear pins, but can also just find a piece of rod the right size and cut them down. I've seen people do bad things and put steel rod in there on old badly maintained hoists.
Also feed it tons and tons of gear lube, or whatever other heavy oil you've got. They do best when they're dripping oil, as there's a massive amount of friction to deal with. I reassemble with grease, and then dump a little gear lube in it with every use. A disgusting oily griphoist that stinks of gear lube is a happy griphoist.
My wife has worked with a fella servicing them, your spot on with the grease! Basically clean the grit and apply fresh grease, there is a straight pull test to see if the jaws are worn, all replaceable, though not sure about Marty’s vintage.
On the other hand do not grease or lubricate if Tirfor is going to be exposed to dust or grit . Away back 50 years ago ,as apprentices in the coal mines, we were given the job of servicing and repair of them and all they got was a wee lick of diesel . It was quite the norm to find a 1/4" bolt hammered in for a shear pin . Miners were no respecters of S.W.L. .
Nice find and great job restoring it!
What a Beauty, that's a good find Marty.
Ive got a modern one for vehicle recovery and clearing fallen timber offroading, and ripping out tree stumps at home. Every few years I pull it apart to clean and re-grease, and its always the same of figuring where all the parts go to put it back together. A snatch block is a great addition to these for doubling your pulling power.
I have also a Tirfor and used it so many times during decades! Greetings from Finland.
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed! Really cool old winch, never seen one before👍 Great find👍👍
The nice thing about using one of those for vehicle recovery is that you end up asking yourself "Do I really want to hand winch myself out of there?". That has kept me out of stupid situations several times.
Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing
They are an amazing addition to any toolbox and I love how many of them are actually other Guy's pride and joy because they allowed them to move heavy things around with ease.
I can't help myself acquiring a lot of these pieces and I have some much more modern ones but I did buy the exact same winch of the Daughter of a Brother who has made the journey to the big workshop in the sky and I am so happy to have his winch, now I know exactly what is inside thanks to your wonderful video.
It is fitting that some of these guys' tools come to guys like us that can give them a new life where they are enjoyed all over again as often they end up in holes in the ground or thrown out for scrap just because the family ran out of interested tinkerers.
Cheers Matey and thanks again for taking us along on your exploits
What a great working winch. I really enjoyed watching you restore it.
With everything flopping about inside there it’s easy to take it apart but the trick is remembering the sequence putting it back together. Beautiful job as usual, Marty.
I found one at our local tip shop which had been pulled apart, I need to make one of the connecting rod thinghys, you've inspired me to get in and fix it, mine was pulled apart because the brass failure pins had broken, there were spares in the handle.
Never seen one of these before. Nice piece of engineering!
Just in case you’re curious the company that made these trifor winches is Westward. I have 2 of them that are 100% identical to yours and have used them for years in the tree removal business pulling trees. They are rated for 2 1/2 tons pulling and 1 1/2 tons lifting capacity and model number is S13. Great video!!
Here in Germany this is called "Greifzug" ("grip puller"), works neat with it's own dedicated piece of cable!
Great find!
:-D
Always nice to have the right tool for the job.
Hi Marty, the riggers where I used to work used to dump them in a bucket of oil after use, rough and ready.
That makes sense
this guy man is there anything he can't fix
Like your slow and logical approach to problem solving.
Interesting piece of kit the ultrasonic cleaner and it only uses ionised water,
Marty used diesel fuel as the cleaning liquid
"that fuels getting hot"...
What a result Marty, 1st free, 2nd ultrasonic cleaner, 3rd test items waiting, 4th now you can do a heck of a lot more without breaking yourself or the bank, take care Marty and family God bless from England
as usual, an amazing job of restoring an old piece of equipment. Thanks Marty
Spent many an hour getting my Landrover 2A out of mischief with one of those... eventually replaced by an electric Warn winch so was never used again... sold it off a year or two after the electric. These were used by pretty much most of the experienced/senior members of the Canterbury Landrover Owners Club late 80's early 90's. On the reasonably regular new members days or training days there was always some use of these to make use people knew how to set up ground anchors, snatch blocks and rope etc. Great to see one of these iconic pieces of equipment getting the Marty T treatment!
Please release more videos. You and Andrew Camarata are my 2 favorites to watch. Especially of you repairing things.....like when you repaired the excavator in the forest.
Nice find, excellent fix!
These are a great winch, they work forwards or backwards, amazing for what they are.
Dear Marty T.
👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always. It really seems that one can find quality only in old things meanwhile. Congrats for owning this strong and sturdy device/tool. And yes, for free is nearly always the best price.
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Marty, you never fail to amaze me !!!!!
Great tools, you need the right rope and get an old motor bike tyre and feed the rope in for storage. Cheers
Good job Marty thanks for the video, Tom 🇬🇧
It was in 1929 that Simon Faure developed and filed the first patent (FR687232) for a portable lifting and pulling device with passing cable, the latter marking a breakthrough innovation in the field of cable lifting devices.
It was also in 1929 that Simon Faure registered, in France, the tirfor brand to designate this device, fruit of his invention.
sweet find....I like the way it pulls no matter which way ...both strokes are doing work instead of wasting half the movement
Great job on the winch repair! Old tools were made to last forever. Thanks again for your time and videos.
Tirfors are great. Especially for righting a vehicle you’ve rolled. Don’t ask me how I know…
Been there, done that !!
They sure are. Ask me how I know.
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How do you know
@@mrwhips3623 I spent some years as a rescue medic. Sometimes cars need rolled over.
Interesting piece of kit. Never seen anything like it.
Perfect landing on the tree with so little effort. That is quite the winch! 🇨🇦
Loving the background rains sounds
Fantastic bit of kit for off road use as well 👍🏻
Love your videos you never fail to amaze me with everything you do
I have its bigger brother, of about the same vintage. Its a T35 (lift 3T off the ground, pull 5 tonne). Extremely useful bit of kit.
The correct wire rope to use in these is specially made, and does not use a soft synthetic or natural fibre core to lay the steel strands around. It uses another tiny steel wire rope. This makes the rope quite stiff, but ensures the rope cannot reduce in diameter and slip through the jaws when operating close to its maximum capacity.
Handy tip: store your wire inside an old road bike rear tyre. Keeps it all neat and tidy and 100 times nicer to handle than the original 'catch on everything' SWR spider
That looks the twin of the one I used in my forestry business back in the early '80s. Cracking hand winches - the best IMO.
Nice job that's a nice winch to have on hand it'll make working by ur self a lot easier.
you did a good job!
👍
Well just so easy when you do it, I have two a big one and a frozen smaller one that I found at the sea side in the bush that I was kinda apprehensive to open up. Well now I have no fear. Congrats on 300 k always so happy to watch and listen to your calm way of being. Thanks Marty from an island on the other side of the globe
That is a nice winch to get ahold of.
Free is my kind of price!
Priceless! :-)
I was down your way the last couple of days , in Nelson. Went out to Marahau in some free time I had.
The car's windscreen was all iced up on Tuesday morning.
Used to use one of these for tree surgery and the biggest test we had was getting the rope high enough up the tree. Too low and it would pull the stump out sideways! Great bit of kit; immensely powerful.
Another fine job done ,
bit of ingenuity , time and patience , is all it takes to solve most problems . Top man marty . Keep up the excellent work and content . From GB .
beautiful old mechanics! Love it.
Nice job. The really useful bit about Tirfors is using the other lever position ,releasing the load ,be it a tree or truck ,under full control. Much better than a Monkey puller or capstan winch which give little control paying out cable. I work with trees, rivers and boats and this feature is almost more useful than its tremendous pulling power with the cable always firmly held by one or other of the jaws.
I remember seeing those advertised in Popular Mechanics back in the 1960s here in the U.S. , you managed to salvage a good working piece.
Funny how when you take it to bits and re-assemble it enough times you really understand how it works - and don’t it get easy too 🤠🏴👍👏👏👏
Never seen that type of wench before. Thanks for sharing.
Another useful piece of gear saved from the scrap heap. Works a treat! Great video. Thanks.
Nice work m8. We used the trifor to pull quiet a few stumps out. Quiet handy with a long winch cable where its not easy to get too. We also pulled a truck out of a ditch lol.
303k subscribers....the cream always rises to the top.
As good as new, great job Marty, thanks for sharing.
Never saw one in use thanks very nice work peace
I note that the lever on the side with the shear pins is held in place with a bolt and washer. Mine is a similar vintage without the bolt, or so it would seem. There is counter sink in the centre of the shaft. I think I’ll drill and tap that shaft and put a bolt and washer on it as the lever is prone to sliding off the shaft. Great video, thanks
I’ve just done that to mine, used a 12mm M6 bolt. Mine has two shear pins, not three like the winch in the vid.
Absolutely amazing bits of kit! I wouldn’t be without mine even though I don’t use it that often. I think you should give it a proper test now and start rescuing the island tractor 😜
Haha yes I think it would pull that, the tractor would fall apart if I tried to move it though, its mostly rust
never seen such a cool winch 👍👍
We carried one of those on every pumping appliance in Greater Manchester FS and they gave excellent service for many, many years. An excellent piece of kit and very versatile.
I'd have thought you'd just spray it with your diesel/oil concoction and thrown it in the truck...job done boyee!
Wow that was a great rebuild!
Hey Marty. A paint job on the casing would have been nice. Nice bright Orange. Good job tho.
We used to carry these on fire engines; we had learn by heart all the stats of the different types we carried- those dowels are actually shear pins which break if it is overloaded
Marty those ultra cleaners are great for carbies as well. Works a treat.
You make it look too east, Marty! I am on my third trip to the hardware store for a leaky toilet tank and I wish you were my neighbor or my brother-in-law! I love your channel!!