RobotMan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I'm planning to fit a centre mounted winch with the intention of running it either up over or out the back. I'm trying to find an aluminium hawse for the rear with an opening deep enough to pass a yellow competition hook through. I guess I could change to a shackle and undo and redo each time but that seems a ballache. I have given up on searching and thought I would ask if there is anything reasonably priced out there before making my own. Any pointers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19MART82 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 if you have a truck cab with cage couldnt you run the line through a normal hawse on the rear and weld a hoop onto the cage to pass the line through for the centre,i remember team idris (on here) did something similer edit: few posts down, http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=69006&hl=&fromsearch=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMan Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 Yes. Im looking at something more like SiTrials setup. The cage hoop is relatively simple. I'm looking for one to go at the rear big enough for the hook to pass through and back so it can go up instead. Team idris's solution is great but mine is also a daily driver so I want everything inside when the canvas goes back on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19MART82 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I see,if you know someone with access to a TIG welder and bender i bet it wouldnt be hard to make one,if you got some 20mm stainlees round bar and 4-5mm backing plate,stainless is better with synthetic rope but ally might be a bit cheaper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMan Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 That is the most likely solution. I was just hoping there was something floating around in someones garage or such like. Looks like I'll be fabbing something up but if you don't ask you don't get! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Idris Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I've got a fair bit of metal around that back end as well to take the force, so its not ideal. But the hook does go through the slot. You pull the pin on the top horizontal roller, flip the roller out and the hook goes between the two virtical box sections, so the rope can go virtical off the winch drum. We don't do it that way as there is all the rad in the back to feed the rope through. But I have a plan for you so cunning you could put a nose and tail on it and call it a weasel Use a standard donut fairlead on the rope and make it fit back and top positions with a socket ! Or talk to Malcolm Whitbread about some bent up tube. I got my top rope guide from him and it was notched ready to weld. I'm sure he'll have an idea of what you want for the rear crossmember. He can do way nicer tube bends than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orgasmic Farmer Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Saley used to do a big ali fairlead which was big enough to pass the hook through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulcan bomber Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 i could make you one if your struggling.. Or mod one if you have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMan Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Thanks fellas. I have a few ideas in mind and making things shouldn't be too much of an issue, I was just being lazy. I don't have a rear rad so no need to go round the houses. I won't get back to this for a while, just trying to have a plan before I start for a change. Oh and it will be TDS 9.5c in a Series. I shall of course be putting a second diagonal and vertical brace into the main hoop too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 You could fab one easily out of four stainless elbows which are pretty cheap. Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19MART82 Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 how about this,depending what hook you use im sure one would fit through http://www.ebay.co.u...=item335ebdf6d4 not sure about mounting options though or http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triangle-Hawse-Rope-Fairlead-Pipe-A4-316-180mm-X-150mm-/320617052817?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_BoatEquipment_Accessories_SM&hash=item4aa643fa91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMan Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Might not be beefy enough those. Cheers though. I'll make one, or blag someone into doing it for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Idris Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I stuck 2 virticals in, a winch drum apart. It made the winch mount a lot easier on the grey cells. My rear winch is inside the cage (one virtical wouldn't work for me if all was central) and I bet yours will be outside. In the unlikely event you should need to, you could send the rope out forward with twin virticals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMan Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 I plan on having two U channels run front to rear secured to the main hoop and rear stay cage feet. I'll then put a plate acroos them with a vertical winch mount coming up off that such that the bottom of the winch is facing the back door. The mount will have the middle notched out so the rope can go back or up straight off the drum. I plan on a fairly straightforward bent tube fair lead at the centre of the main hoop with bracing below it. At the back I'll cut a hole in the back door and have the rear hawse so it sticks through it when shut. It will be make it up as I go Fab lol! I would draw a picture but it's too much grief on this phone. The picture doesn't add much but I've put it on anyhow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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