Frequently asked questions - Auxiliary winch

Yes, it can. The manufacturer and age of the winch is not of primary importance.

Primarily, we are looking to integrate our winch system into the existing one. The Tod Mann functions are intended for this purpose, such as: throttle + / -, tower height adjustment, start/stop if necessary if these functions are not assigned and are assigned by means of a toggle switch that returns to the neutral position.

Generally speaking, you need: WINDE + bracket + cable + pulley set + hydraulic block + hydraulic hose.

Yes, this will be sufficient in regular operation and has successfully been tested by us in practice since 2014.

Yes, absolutely. Because this is where you experience first-hand, day after day, how much easier the winch makes your work. We now also equip harvesters, skidders and the like with them.

In principle not, but this winch was built exclusively for use as an auxiliary winch for pulling ropes -> if you want a small winch for weak timber or initial fostering, please take a look at our SAPI winch.

Yes, of course. Our winch was built to be fast, efficient and, above all, gentle on the body.

Theoretically yes, but in practice it has become obvious that a plastic rope (originally HAFO) makes operation much easier and therefore simpler.

We strongly recommend not to do this.

We offer a special Dynema CAT 2 rope with our own diameter developed for this purpose.

This is precisely one of the advantages of our synthetic rope compared to a steel cable, as it can be spliced, We work a lot in rocky terrain ourselves and have only made positive experiences.

No, it doesn’t. We actively release the rope in both directions. This offers the advantage that you really don't have to pull any weight from the rope up the mountain. Another benefit is the possibility to control the actual wind rope much better later on in the process.

A single-acting one, with unpressurised return flow, via our hydraulic block. It also works with double-acting ones. All you need to do is connect it correctly, "T" to return.