I was a commercial advertising magazine photographer who retired and now learning log milling and woodworking. Also, I’m showing my life in a prairie style / mid century modern house.This channel shows my transition into a new passion. View cameras, Sawmills, Woodworking, Bamboo removal, Prairie style house, Mid century modern house and furniture. Live edge wood, Welding, Metalworking.
Can anybody tell me if it's also possible to lower objects with this winch? Or does it only work for pulling objects? I'd like to use if for lifting and lowering a heavy trap door.
your letting your arc go out(rod is getting too short which causes a wide gap that the arc cant jump across), you need to keep feeding the rod(lightly) into the puddle of the weld as you proceed with your weld. It just takes practice and congrats on the new welder!
Thanks for the advice. I'm just learning and just finished a intro welding class at the community college. You're right I need to practice as much as possible to get the hang of it.
I just bought one of these and I found the instruction manual pretty awful. I was hoping to find a better instruction manual online but I came across your video. I enjoyed watching it and I even just found seeing a "finished model" to look at very helpful. Thanks for posting!
Richard, great video. You are the only one on YT who showed this in action on brush and bamboo. Have you continued to use it? How long do the batteries run and are the blades holding up?
I still think it's a very useful brush cutter but the blades don't last very long. You'll have to order spares after you use up the two it came with. The batteries last much longer than I expected. You'll be able to do most tasks on one battery. It comes with two so you should be able to use it all day. I'm tempted to remove the blade guard because it constantly comes loose and rotates so it's in the way. I still highly recommend this little brush cutter.
I wish I could say I built it. It was built by a Gaffer ( a lighting director ) I used to work with. He used to carry it on his semi and have it available for TV commercials or photography shoots. He closed his business and left it with my photo studio. It's now perfect for my vertical kiln.
@@richardizui703 that's a neat story and history. I'll have to think about building one myself. Or maybe two, one for a darkroom so I can play with my 4x5 again and one for drying wood.
@@askquestionstrythings Thanks! Sounds like we have a lot in common! I still have 2 8x10 Deardorff cameras that I'd love to shoot film with again. I always wanted to find a 4X5 Deardorff to have a blast shooting with. Oh well, for now drying wood then making things keeps me satisfied.
@@richardizui703yep, lots in common. I've got two 4x5s that I got right as everything transitioned to digital. Out of the two I have mostly shot with is an old newspaper graflex, the other one is more of a studio camera.
It looks exactly like the Berger & Schröter or Berger-Schroeter winch product number: 31717. I thought they designed it, but apparently it is a Chinese winch sold under various brands.
You’re right. I looked up the Berger and Schroter and it looks exactly the same. It does the job well which ever version you get. The company I used has great tech support.
First issue is you need to pull out as much cable as you can. You need to be using the first layer of cable on the drum. That gives you the highest rating. Each wrap over that the winch looses power. You can also use a single pulley and double the power. And for that price of what you got you could have got a 12v one with a 3500lb pulling power.
Thanks for the good info. After I posted this I bought a snatch block and have used it a few times. I didn’t know that pulling out the cable would give more a higher rating. Btw, this winch out pulls my 2000lb 12 volt winch.
@@richardizui703 The more layers, you are changing the diameter of the drum... that changes the 'gearing'. Using the first wrap is using a smaller drum, having say, three layers on makes the drum larger and less gearing. And for being better than your 2000lb one, it's not the winch, it's the drill that does that... but, decent vid overall.
RU-vid can be your friend, research before using anything with potential danger involved. You have a RU-vid channel, how about visiting other channels thru search option.
The stump you pulled would come very easy if you pulled upwards with a redirect as i said in my other post use an a frame ... or use a tire or wheel to redirect
Pulling stumps it's easy if you use an aframe 2x4's or 4x4 or steel a frame to make the pull up as close to straight up as possible.... comes out way way easier
As well as having your pull as high as you can, your anchor point should be as low as possible. Winches work stronger with less cable on the drum, just a handfull of turns left is best. One thing I see many people doing is hooking the cable back onto itself, this is an excellent way to ruin a winch cable. For stump pulling I put an old wheel next to the stump and run the pull over it, this creates lift and can defeat the most stubborn trees.
Great little winch..So next tree you want to pull,be sure and leave 8-10 ft..You get way more leverage.My pops was a logger and all around can do type of guy..Made it work..Thanks!
A hazard is that you are necessarily standing in the line of whiplash should that steel cable part under tension. Use a blanket over the cable as well as hard hat with face shield . Also use a snatch block to double the power. I have the Warn version of that winch, very useful for unique tasks such as loading a heavy mower up ramps into a pickup.
I have built several greenhouses from 1 3/8 galvanized fence top rail and use them for cheap coverings, using those large billboard vinyl tarps. In the greenhouse world in the lower growing zones, they often do 2 layers of plastic with air trapped between the 2 and it acts as layer of insulation. I bought property 18 months ago and got a woodland mills 130max and a tractor. I have accumulated lots of wood and was mainly trying to get materials to do interior trim, and shiplap for some rentals we had planned to build. I wanted to build a type of solar kiln, that could potentially involve using a dehumidifier, but I was mostly interested in it running off grid using whatever power it needed with solar. I'll link a youtube video from an Australian channel, about 15 minutes in he is standing in front of what looks like a form of DIY kiln he made with greenhouse plastic layers. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dbkN_EAfmwI.html
Thanks for the comment. Sounds like you've got your greenhouse builds under good control for your area. I'm just using mine as a second stage in wood slab drying. First I just have the logs outside with some under a wooden cover but most just laying outside. The second stage after slabbing is my greenhouse with 2 fans going 24 hours. My third stage is a kiln made from an old sub zero freezer that died last year. I store the slabs vertically strapped together with stickers between for air circulation. It gets the wood from 17% and up humidity down to below 10% (measured with a pinless meter) in about a month. I have a woodland mills sawmill too. Mine's an HM 126 .
Wow, this is so impressive!!!! There's a guy on yt who pulls stumps with intricate pulleys, seems sound and intellect beyond my own (not sarcasm) but his tree huggers kept slipping out. Having metal, I was fearing for your life! He eventually cut a hook with a chainsaw into the stump a third of the way. The tree huggers are far safer but wow the metal wire really works better. We can't argue with results! I'd imagine your winch broke/overheated due to overuse. Try doing little by little because the stump will still keep breaking as it reaches equilibrium. As the steel heats from the speed, the wire becomes soft and breaks as would the winch itself. May I suggest a backup tether for if the cable fails your direction? That's the climber in me talking. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your comment. Any new info helps. The winch company did send me this new unit with the metal cable but on the one that broke I replaced the metal broken cable with a synthetic cable. I'm waiting to try it out. You're right about safety, I always cover the metal cable with a sand bag in case it breaks. I also use tree huggers on the winch side of the set up.
@@richardizui703 I hope I didn't come across too critical, I meant well thanks for understanding:) the sand bags are cool, simple and effective :D clever. Ah dyneema cord is the stuff, I think they say its strongER than steel :o cool about the soft shackles it makes sense. Dyneema will be eaten by the bark so be aware of its abrasion weaknesses. Metal anchor with dyneema on a carabeener I imagine? I'll check I subbed :D I look forward to it
It's okay for keeping the wood out of the elements but I don't really have it set up for real drying although on sunny days the temps do get up pretty high like 20 degrees over the outside temps. I have 2 fans running full time for circulation. After the greenhouse I dry in a DIY kiln made from an upright freezer that I converted. This works very well and gets the wood dry in about a month.
@@richardizui703 that seems pretty legit. I am getting a 40ft container delivered tomorrow with the extra tall ceiling. Going to convert the back 12ft or so to a kiln and the other 28ft for extra workshop space.
It’s actually working great. I use this as a first stage of drying for a couple of months then I have two small vertical kilns in my garage that I use as the second step. If the slab is too long I’ll just do the full drying in the greenhouse. The temperature gets well over 100 Fahrenheit. I’m getting slabs under 10% humidity.
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My Mercedes Benz ml550 just abosutly in love, 137k miles and still running strong! Bout to do an oil change and change front pads just got done with 4 set of tires lil bit ago, they do like to eat tires 😅
Now that you’ve retired from photography, would you ever consider selling your 8x10 Deardorff View Camera? If I were in your position, I wouldn’t, because it would hold too much sentimental value! Never hurts to inquire though.
