Now we’re going green at full steam, how are old school tools doing? Take a look at chain hoists, blocks and cable pullers.
There was a tree stump in the front , its diameter is about a bit greater than 4 feet , it had bothered us for quite some time , we’ve tried chainsaw on it but nothing can go through it, lately we bought a 4 ton cable puller , together with my truck took the stump out without major effort!
Actually cable hand pullers are heavy duty pulling tools and can be used to do a lot of things, sometimes you even can use it in pace of ATV Winch to save money. The rated capacity of cable puller usually comes in from 1 ton to 4 ton(2200lbs to 8800lbs), the reach of the pullers is usually 6 feet to 12 feet, the higher the capacity, the shorter the reach, 1 ton puller can have 12′ reach while 4 ton puller will only have 6′ reach, but some extra heavy duty 4 ton ones can have 11′ or more. We usually call cable puller “Come Along”, by definition, a come along is a hand operated ratchet lever winch, so cable puller can be called come along, along with chain hoists, hand winch, trailer winch. Typically hand winch is used to pull boat out of water on the boat trailer or lower the boat into water, hence the name ‘boat trailer winch”, and hand winch has to be fixed onto something before use while you can just hook cable puller onto something immobile , such as a tree. All these pullers sometimes go with the name chain come along, usually we use chains with these tough guys, in most cases only grade 80 or higher grade chains will work with these come along.
For stretching, pulling, lifting and lowering, cable pullers are the best choice. You can pull or release vehicles onto and from trailer respectively, to pull or tear down trees, to lift or lower heavy stuff in your house, pull the stuck trees out of ditch , compare to electric powered winch, such as ATV winch , cable pullers are inexpensive alternatives. Talking has been done let’s get a real cable puller, the way to do it is to get it online, because you will be able to find very good deal. To get a nice deal you need to make informed decision, the product review or BBS is your friend in your quest for low cost and high quality cable pullers.
Say you can use either hand puller or electric winch, the hand cable puller is the one if you love to live green, the only power source for hand puller is human, and there is less waste when it’s being made.
