Pulling stuff with a drill winch

So a few weeks ago we built this snake pit. I call it a snake pit because it's in this woodpile that definitely has snakes in it, but the thin line was actually made of dead trees, we cut down some dead trees and dragged these logs over here and we didn't cut them into small pieces, we brought everything in using the Gator's

winch

in this particular situation. We were able to park the Gator there, run the

winch

cable, and drag the logs wherever we wanted, but there are a lot of places in my yard where I don't want to cut the path wide enough for the Gator, so I started looking for winches I could take into the woods. like little 12 volt winches that I could hook up to a

drill

battery and then I found one that I thought was perfect, this is the Warren

drill

winch, you plug your drill right here, any cordless drill and it can operate this, the adjustment and the finish are really good, looks good, has a small window where you can see the winch cable.

They have a nice heavy hook on the back. You have a lock and unlock here so you can take out the cable yourself. Here he says he can pull 500 pounds, so I'm willing to bet he can. we'll probably get more out of it, so we'll use this for some real work I'll need for next week and then maybe we'll have a little fun with it and see what I can actually do. There are some dead here. The wood here doesn't look so good, insects eat it. I don't know if we want to use this. The further we go, the further I'll have to drag this damn thing once we find it, that's right, I guess. trash pine which is a species native to North Carolina.

It looks like we have something a little more usable here. This piece here actually looks to be in good condition and I could probably take it out in its entirety. How hard is it to move this? Oh, this is it. heavy people at least for a little guy like me I'm going to wrap this rope around this piece of dead tree this way I won't ruin the winch cable oh this is not easy good help they knew how to tie knots now we need something to hold the winch against this tree looks as good as any winch loop over here okay so we can unlock this here and we can pull the cable out okay lock it back up okay we're hooked safely in there looks pretty easy I just need to get it there and then I think it's wide enough to put it on the handcart and carry it most of the way back.

I think it's my drill. I think it is a protection like a torque limiter inside the winch. that the log is getting stuck in the top layer of soil, here we go, yes, now we don't get the limiter at all. I have to say this was going to save my back big time because I'm here every week trying to find content. build things and a lot of times it's just me, the drill doesn't sound good, it's smoke, that's normal for Ryobi, cost wasn't an issue here, you know, we could fly this with a helicopter or whatever, that's what I wanted to avoid, I wanted to avoid digging I follow my trail here because once you get past this lomi you have peanut butter like this clock is kicking hard.

I have high hopes for this, but I'm starting to have doubts. I mean, Kevin and I could probably flesh this out. It's not that big a log, it can't be more than 15 inches in diameter and we can't, what can you throw with it? I considered cutting this into smaller pieces, but I really want as large pieces as possible because some parts of the wood could be damaged. I want to save as much as possible here in the drill. This is unimaginably slow. OK. I'm going to have to do this the old fashioned way. Channel your inner grandpa.

Can. I can't believe how this is working right now. I wonder how many people will unsubscribe today. Why am I seeing this? Oh, now I know how this will go. Okay, am I going to have to drag this thing down? trace, well, winch time, inevitably in the comments, it's like you should just use a hoe and just pick it up and bring it there and it's like, that would be a very interesting video using the right tool to move things, no, that's not what . You're here of course, we're free at home now we're really putting this to work.

It's okay, we're close enough that we can pass by there on the forest road. We just can't do it here. I want a nice flat place to set up my sawhorses, the strategy is to use high speed for easy

pulling

and then when it starts to work hard switch it to low speed, but if you use low speed all the time you will be here all day. I mean it's an inch bite into my poor trail, this sucks, it's hailing right now, there's ice balls hitting me in the head, look at everyone bouncing on the trail over there, I can take this curve and we'll be like in home, free, then I can. just plug it into the Gator.

Wow, if I had to do this again, first of all, I'm going to try to get some kind of sled and I would put this on the sled because it would move down the trail a lot easier if I was doing that. If I do it alone then I guess I would have no choice but to use the winch or something, but this is not a good way to move wood. However, it was a very good test for that little winch and I'd say it passes a bit if you do it. We're not going to move anything that big.

I mean, we really jeopardized this. That wasn't fun at all. I said we were going to have some fun with this. It's time to do it right when I want to have fun. With the product, the first place I start is the warnings never exceed 500 pounds, we did ruin the fun with that torque limiter, never use the product. If the cable is damaged, it's okay, that's fair, never use it as a hoist, say no more. I'll find a suitable tree branch or something. I have an idea, so I'm obviously going to advise you not to do this.

I'm sure you guys can do the math right now. Saturday could be just lying in bed. Be walking my bike, but this is my job now, that was bullshit, what the hell am I going to do? Well, let's see if we can go down, put it in reverse, I got into this, well, I guess we'll have to do it, oh that. worked fine so far we didn't do anything practical with this use case that I could see is recovering a UTV if you don't already have a winch this will only pull 500 lbs but if the UTV is like in the mud and you just can't get the tires to work .

Can you climb a slope? So that's the question. I'm going to put the Gator in neutral. I forgot we were still on a slope. Don't act like you've never done it. Oh, easy, make easy work of this plus barely on a slope, once I get to the slope, we'll see where the heart of this thing really is, it's starting to struggle a little, so I'm going to throw the drill into low speed. moving very slow but she is moving now we have that torque limiter don't rely on this for self recovery it's not going to happen it will leave you high and dry and that brings up an important point.

I'm trying to figure out what this is. It's really designed for what this thing could really be useful for. I was able to get a small piece of wood out of there. I was able to pull myself up to the deck, but they don't recommend using it as a hoist, although we didn't need one for the trunk, we could have used a pulley or any type of pulley, but that would also cut the speed in half and this thing is already unbearable. slow. The verdict is that it fits and finishes very well, does what it says very smooth operation good quality hooks good quality handle good quality everything, but what can you really use it for if you didn't find this review useful?

I hope you at least found it entertaining if you want to know what I did with all that. Timber, check out my video, my other channel and we'll link to it below. Otherwise, thanks for riding with me today, I'll see you next time.