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Patracy ; Re your pic... I was imagining something in the order of 12 - 15 feetlong! Those 'ears' look like they would interfere with the instalation into the top of the boom (after one sheave was removed). ....... UNLESS!.... I am looking at this the wrong way around. If the right end went...

and the SteelOscar for best animated fiction goes to.... Ooo, look what just fell out of the back of my computer...

well well well... If Phil really has the pole, I'd better get started on drawing the rest - mast head and stay arrangement! Needed to write a second line here..... so you'all can read between them! 8)

Nice safety device, very ingenious. Howz about painting it silver to kind of match the other side! I was going to do a hinge plate to imobilise the levers on the cupola, similar to some small modern tractors with front loaders.

Look what I did NOT find in the TM's!!! 8) NB. Anyone who thinks this is anything other than a totally ficticious brain f@rt, purely to entertain the wrecker non-masses will be shot.

So any liberal, vegetarian, ban the second amendment, foreigners need not apply??? 8) But welcome anyway from Nr Cooperstown! (By the way, I eat meat!)

Quite agree - a midships winch works if it is a capstain type with a powered take up drum (Land Rover 101-pto driven, left in gear and only pays out when pulled) or if there is a dog clutch and the whole system free spools easily - no tight bends etc (not more than 3/8", maybe 1/2" cable for one...

OK Jeff - now you have me confused. Where did you get the term 'Gipsy head' from? You seem to be the first person to mention it... on this thread. And as DH pointed out re Wiki link - it's the driven horizontal drum (windlas) - toothed for heavy chain- a la negative of a sprocket, used on a...

There should be a way to do it, but you'll need a few pulley wheels, associated brackets, pig tails etc., to safely route the cable smoothly to a rear fairlead past all the undercarriage etc. Current thread on Mack wreckers has the fairlead on the front bumper - winch is way at the back (well...

Only thing that I know of that is anything like a "pogo stick" - is often a term for the 'hosetenna' on a tractor....... and therefore nothing to do with a W/W truck!!! Is a gipsy head anything to do with a capstan type winch??

Yup - they are Australian. Made in country. The wreckers replaced their M816's. There are a couple of former RAEME guys on here that occasionally contribute - but it's their summer now so are probably on the beach and not online! Cargo versions too:

Looks like you are in the same boat as I was a while ago with my 816. It is solveable if you don't want to replace the shaft for one with a fitting. Just incase your search "button" is broken...

Better?

Just "Paint".

new drg..

Well, since the CDL is a federally mandated entity - I'd say yes. However, there is a big difference when talking about the WHO that is stopping you. Local Sherrif; not so much , DoT trained Trooper; abso-flamin-lutely.

It's easy enough to cut-n-paste on your pic, to play with ideas... What do you need the bumper to do? : - Approach angle? Overhang out forward? Strength? Protect lights and grille/rad? Pusher pads? Center pintle? Lift capability? Tow eyes? Winch...

Yeah Ron, I have heard of a few 'in service' storys confirming exactly that.... without an extension. Apparently, the hardened slide tracks crack first - with the flexing of the "inner". so it's worth cleaning them periodically rather than just relubeing them. Never miss an opportunity to...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e17_1390598624 (("Network Error" ... can't view, sob sob.)) Must have been my end... Fog has lifted... Great vid - thanks.

CGI - this is not real. "..You heard the torpedo hit the hull....... and I was never here." James Earl Jones DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS AT HOME. DO NOT RUN WITH SHARP OBJECTS.