When a friend comes by the house and gives you an old 4x8 2 wheeled trailer. First you take to your shop and park it out front of the building for about 3 or 4 months. When you are feeling like it you go down to the shop and walk around and look at all the junk iron and scrap you have lying around.
Couple of times doing this go by and you find an old 3500 lbs wench in the back of the shop. You, make mental notes of all this things and then go on about doing what you were doing. The next time you go to the shop you find a wiring loom and a couple of new taillights you had been saving for something for about ten years.
Times goes by and one day, without much of a plan, you are at shop with a pile of scrap iron, welder, cutoff saw and not much to do. This is the start of what happens. Don't even ask why, because I don't know. I have a million other things I should be working on.
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Re: Here's what happens
You must be a brother from another mother . I am guilty of similar things.
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I think that's called having fun Terry! Enjoy!
Also, the real question is WHY NOT?
Also, the real question is WHY NOT?
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speaking of working on things that aren't your priority:
I'm supposed to have finished up the hydraulics on my detachable loader project by now. I just keep finding ways to procrastinate. Having plumbed in the new loader valve all wrong, I just really don't want to drain all the oil and break open the system again to reconfigure it. There's no reason not to, I just REALLY DON'T FEEL LIKE IT. It's a mental thing.
Meanwhile, I did recently accomplish something very similar to what you did here: I got a 3500lb winch for Christmas, and rather than permanently mount it in a single place, I made mountable to any of three different places:
I attached the winch itself to a class III hitch ball adapter. So without any work at all, I can slide it into my class III hitch receiver at the back of my truck. Then I ran a heavy gauge power supply from my spare battery back to there, which I terminated in a 150 amp plug-in/"quick connector" mounted under the rear bumper. Then I attached a corresponding quick connector to the winch power wires, and now I can attach the winch to the hitch receiver, plug the power cable into the quick connector, and winch away.
Next I cut up an old class III hitch receiver and fabricated a bracket to attach it to the truck's frame rails right behind the face of the front bumper. My (2008 Ford) bumper already has a nice wide slot in it that's just tall enough to slide the hitch ball adapter through it. So I aligned the hole of the hitch receiver at that location. So now I can mount my winch to the front hitch receiver . Of course I ran a wiring extension and attached a quick connect up there too.
Lastly, I took the cut-off/extra piece of receiver tube and mounted to the tongue of my trailer. So I can mount my winch into that receiver hole, and have the fairlead of the winch right at the front plane of the trailer bed, so that I can winch things up and onto the trailer. For power, the winch cord can reach the quick connect that's already mounted under the rear bumper of the truck.
I went to use it for the first time the other day to pick up my son in law's little John Deere 175 for some starting problems and deck maintenance. But the little John Deere is so light, I just pushed it up the ramp by hand, so no winch excitement that time. Oh well, maybe later. :-)
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I'm supposed to have finished up the hydraulics on my detachable loader project by now. I just keep finding ways to procrastinate. Having plumbed in the new loader valve all wrong, I just really don't want to drain all the oil and break open the system again to reconfigure it. There's no reason not to, I just REALLY DON'T FEEL LIKE IT. It's a mental thing.
Meanwhile, I did recently accomplish something very similar to what you did here: I got a 3500lb winch for Christmas, and rather than permanently mount it in a single place, I made mountable to any of three different places:
I attached the winch itself to a class III hitch ball adapter. So without any work at all, I can slide it into my class III hitch receiver at the back of my truck. Then I ran a heavy gauge power supply from my spare battery back to there, which I terminated in a 150 amp plug-in/"quick connector" mounted under the rear bumper. Then I attached a corresponding quick connector to the winch power wires, and now I can attach the winch to the hitch receiver, plug the power cable into the quick connector, and winch away.
Next I cut up an old class III hitch receiver and fabricated a bracket to attach it to the truck's frame rails right behind the face of the front bumper. My (2008 Ford) bumper already has a nice wide slot in it that's just tall enough to slide the hitch ball adapter through it. So I aligned the hole of the hitch receiver at that location. So now I can mount my winch to the front hitch receiver . Of course I ran a wiring extension and attached a quick connect up there too.
Lastly, I took the cut-off/extra piece of receiver tube and mounted to the tongue of my trailer. So I can mount my winch into that receiver hole, and have the fairlead of the winch right at the front plane of the trailer bed, so that I can winch things up and onto the trailer. For power, the winch cord can reach the quick connect that's already mounted under the rear bumper of the truck.
I went to use it for the first time the other day to pick up my son in law's little John Deere 175 for some starting problems and deck maintenance. But the little John Deere is so light, I just pushed it up the ramp by hand, so no winch excitement that time. Oh well, maybe later. :-)
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@thebuildist I was wondering about your loader. I have a similar issue to deal with, and drain more than 6-7 gallons of hydraulic fluid on the big loader. Neat idea with the quick-attach winch.
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Hey Bob @thebuildist , Good see you back . Miss your perspective on things .
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