Keith:

I was thinking about replacing my winch cable with that "rope" as you are
suggesting until last month when I went with a group through Isham Canyon.
One of the guys had that on his winch and got himself stuck badly enough to
have to use it. On the very first pull, it broke about 6 feet from the loop
at the end. You are right that it didn't whiplash, but it sure didn't do
the job either. Several other guys commented that they had seen failures
like that many times before and would never buy the "rope" for their
winches. I gave up on my idea to replace mine too.

For what it's worth,
Dave
91 YJ with lots of goodies

| Sounds like the wire cable can be a bit of a problem, anyone using the
winch
| 'rope'. I'm not exactly sure what it's called but it replaces the wire
| with rope and doesn't whiplash when it breaks or crush/kink. It looks
like
| about 4 times the price but it might be worth it given all the problems
| wire cable seems to have.
|
| --
| Keith
| 98 TJ
| 86 Mustang GT

 

Keith:

I was thinking about replacing my winch cable with that "rope" as you are
suggesting until last month when I went with a group through Isham Canyon.
One of the guys had that on his winch and got himself stuck badly enough to
have to use it. On the very first pull, it broke about 6 feet from the loop
at the end. You are right that it didn't whiplash, but it sure didn't do
the job either. Several other guys commented that they had seen failures
like that many times before and would never buy the "rope" for their
winches. I gave up on my idea to replace mine too.

For what it's worth,
Dave
91 YJ with lots of goodies

| Sounds like the wire cable can be a bit of a problem, anyone using the
winch
| 'rope'. I'm not exactly sure what it's called but it replaces the wire
| with rope and doesn't whiplash when it breaks or crush/kink. It looks
like
| about 4 times the price but it might be worth it given all the problems
| wire cable seems to have.
|
| --
| Keith
| 98 TJ
| 86 Mustang GT

 

Keith:

I was thinking about replacing my winch cable with that "rope" as you are
suggesting until last month when I went with a group through Isham Canyon.
One of the guys had that on his winch and got himself stuck badly enough to
have to use it. On the very first pull, it broke about 6 feet from the loop
at the end. You are right that it didn't whiplash, but it sure didn't do
the job either. Several other guys commented that they had seen failures
like that many times before and would never buy the "rope" for their
winches. I gave up on my idea to replace mine too.

For what it's worth,
Dave
91 YJ with lots of goodies

| Sounds like the wire cable can be a bit of a problem, anyone using the
winch
| 'rope'. I'm not exactly sure what it's called but it replaces the wire
| with rope and doesn't whiplash when it breaks or crush/kink. It looks
like
| about 4 times the price but it might be worth it given all the problems
| wire cable seems to have.
|
| --
| Keith
| 98 TJ
| 86 Mustang GT

 

Congrats on the new winch! XD9000i, same as mine! We have made good
choices in our winch purchase. For advise on winching techniques, I
suggest you go to the WARN winch home page and find their help page.
They have available for download "Winching Techniques" in pdf format.

Greg

 

Congrats on the new winch! XD9000i, same as mine! We have made good
choices in our winch purchase. For advise on winching techniques, I
suggest you go to the WARN winch home page and find their help page.
They have available for download "Winching Techniques" in pdf format.

Greg

 

Congrats on the new winch! XD9000i, same as mine! We have made good
choices in our winch purchase. For advise on winching techniques, I
suggest you go to the WARN winch home page and find their help page.
They have available for download "Winching Techniques" in pdf format.

Greg

 

KH wrote:
>
> Mike Romain wrote:
>
> > They do make good gloves for running plumbing power snakes. They look
> > something like the Warn gloves. They have mesh in them, but a spur can
> > still grab you.
> >
> > The only time I get my hands near it is at the last 6-10 feet for the
> > last winding.
> >
> > I have worked around too many cables and heavy equipment to ever get
> > close to a moving loaded cable. The things do bite.
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> Mike,
> How long is the piece of hardwood you use to guide the cable? What is it
> shaped like? Maybe with a V shape cut into the end?
>
> --
> Keith

A chunk of hockey stick about a foot long with a V in the end works for
repacking the cable on the spool. I have used a chunk of tree with a
branch coming off sort of Y shaped.

The cables do wind up nice and easy with a decent amount of stress on
them.

If they start to wind up strange and overlap where they shouldn't, then
likely you don't have enough load on it. With the right load, they coil
up nice.

Even if it is only a person or two holding the stress on it for a
rewind, the stick still will guide it safely.

Mike

 

KH wrote:
>
> Mike Romain wrote:
>
> > They do make good gloves for running plumbing power snakes. They look
> > something like the Warn gloves. They have mesh in them, but a spur can
> > still grab you.
> >
> > The only time I get my hands near it is at the last 6-10 feet for the
> > last winding.
> >
> > I have worked around too many cables and heavy equipment to ever get
> > close to a moving loaded cable. The things do bite.
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> Mike,
> How long is the piece of hardwood you use to guide the cable? What is it
> shaped like? Maybe with a V shape cut into the end?
>
> --
> Keith

A chunk of hockey stick about a foot long with a V in the end works for
repacking the cable on the spool. I have used a chunk of tree with a
branch coming off sort of Y shaped.

The cables do wind up nice and easy with a decent amount of stress on
them.

If they start to wind up strange and overlap where they shouldn't, then
likely you don't have enough load on it. With the right load, they coil
up nice.

Even if it is only a person or two holding the stress on it for a
rewind, the stick still will guide it safely.

Mike

 

KH wrote:
>
> Mike Romain wrote:
>
> > They do make good gloves for running plumbing power snakes. They look
> > something like the Warn gloves. They have mesh in them, but a spur can
> > still grab you.
> >
> > The only time I get my hands near it is at the last 6-10 feet for the
> > last winding.
> >
> > I have worked around too many cables and heavy equipment to ever get
> > close to a moving loaded cable. The things do bite.
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> Mike,
> How long is the piece of hardwood you use to guide the cable? What is it
> shaped like? Maybe with a V shape cut into the end?
>
> --
> Keith

A chunk of hockey stick about a foot long with a V in the end works for
repacking the cable on the spool. I have used a chunk of tree with a
branch coming off sort of Y shaped.

The cables do wind up nice and easy with a decent amount of stress on
them.

If they start to wind up strange and overlap where they shouldn't, then
likely you don't have enough load on it. With the right load, they coil
up nice.

Even if it is only a person or two holding the stress on it for a
rewind, the stick still will guide it safely.

Mike