Old school PTO winch

matkal

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This Jeep is(was?) for sale locally, thought I’d share a couple pics. I found the winch interesting. Just for curiosity sake, anyone have any info on this type of winch? And is it correct for it to be wound from the top?
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Pretty common for Pto winches to run over the drum versus under.
I wish I had a better pic of this widened out Suburban on a garbage truck chassis. He explained the size of the PTO to me once. He hadn't spooled it up because he couldn't justify the money for the insane amount of 3/4" synthetic line he was going to put on it.

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I wish I had a better pic of this widened out Suburban on a garbage truck chassis. He explained the size of the PTO to me once. He hadn't spooled it up because he couldn't justify the money for the insane amount of 3/4" synthetic line he was going to put on it.

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At about $10 a foot I bet he was having doubts. And people complain how much feed 3/8 is.
 
At about $10 a foot I bet he was having doubts. And people complain how much feed 3/8 is.
It was along the lines of "hey, you know folks, can you get me a price on 150 feet of 3/4" synthetic?" WTF are you trying to move that you need line that big? Whatever I want. What the hell has that much weight? My Suburban. No, they don't weigh that much. Mine does and then I went and looked at it. I think he said it was a 20,000 lb rated. Seems about right for the size.

Looking at one and it holds 220 feet of 9/16" steel cable. I'm not putting 1500 bucks in synthetic line on anything.
 
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