----- Original Message -----
From: Rikk Rogers <rkltd@swbell.net>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Winching, Wenching and drinking.........
> True,
> My shock was at the fact that it is aluminum.
> I have used shear pins for years in power-takeoffs on tractors ect. but
they
> use soft steel, and can be replaced with a soft bolt.
> An Aluminum pin could be hard to find NOS, so what else works when you
wipe
> out 3 or 4 at a time?
Spares my friend, spares. OK, spare grade 3 bolts :). It shouldn't be that
hard to find some soft steel that would be a suitable replacement. If you'd
like I could look it up in the machinery handbook.
>
> Never done that? Have you ever stuck a deuce to the frame in justsoft
mud?
I have a Unimog, and yes, I've done that. There were a couple of different
PTO front mounted winches that were available as factory options for the
Unimog S. Plus some aftermarket Werners and such - rated around 12K # - but
using a different rating system than the usual system. Most of the usual
systems are rated as flat pulls - the Unimog systems are rated for lifts. In
real world use they rate around 20K# . How about a 'mog stuck up to the
doors in mud? That's called letting it sit for a couple of weeks until it
dries off enough to dig out. What fun.
Greg
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