From: Michael P. Maynard (mmaynard@rochester.rr.com)
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 07:50:55 PST
Don't ya just love all my questions??? ;-)
So I messed with the winch last night, was pulling a tree up the hill.
Was working great. But being that I was pulling at a slight angle all
the cable was winding on one side of the drum. Well with the
convenience of the controls in the cab and dad down watching the tree,
neither of us saw it happening until it was too late.... the cable
overwound on the one side, bound up, and snapped the shear pin. Now I
have around 100' of cable out of the winch, and no way to drive it!!!
LOL Any ideas on how to prevent this in the future? I cant imagine that
it is all that possible to steer the cable when a load is on it. I also
wonder if I can find a mirror to hang out over the front to watch it
from the cab... ;-) So what exactly is the shear pin? I really need to
come up with some, and I know I can buy them. But I would also like to
be able to use the winch in the mean time. I know they are aluminum,
but is it a specific grade? Or is 6061 t6 ok? What is the diameter of
the pin? And the length. Is it hollow? If so, what is the ID.... are
they press fit? Or is there something that keeps them from sliding out?
Interestingly enough, I couldn't find any remains of the pin last night
other than little shavings....
Well for what its worth, we hauled a healthy load of black locust
firewood out of my uncles orchard last night (was on the side hill
between orchards). My other uncle that lives nearby said he was pretty
sure that it wasn't a Mexican van he saw/heard coming down the side
hill... ;-)
As for my sparks, they seem to have gone away. I still need to pin
point the excessive noise at higher RPM's. I figure the little driving
that I am doing around the local orchard is helping me to diagnose it
while having fun at the same time. :-)I wish I had an easy way to record
sound on the puter, because I would record it for everyone to hear.
I think that's it for today, maybe....
Mike
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