I had never considered this, now looking at old half dead chain saws and winches with a certain glint in me eye.... I saw comments about remote throttles, yes, possibly, but with proper construction, welds and cable health should be okay. If you don't have the spidy sense to stop when something is too far sketchy you deserve a Darwin award anyway. I have two Incomplete one's myself, hope to get smarter and never compete for an award again. Both involved helicopter rides, although one was just a church bus that rear ended me, but hey, the last one was my fault (and undiagnosed high blood sugar at 400+).
Can't believe you actually Mcmaster'd stuff like my lazy engineer bosses who can't be bothered to even ask me to dig through through the junk piles at work to find what we need. Next thing I know you'll be signing PO's to have a vendor make your stuff.
Just remembered to get back on here and thank you again. I broke out one of my sleds to get ready for grass drags, because they're finally happening in Maine again! That trick you showed us a while ago, injecting bar and chain oil into the idler wheel bearings. Never ceases to amaze me just how well that works. I just replaced those bearings 2 years ago and they were all about seized up. Got any tricks for making grease fittings take grease again? I know I could buy new fittings but we both know they're just going to snap off when I try to unscrew them.
I think it should last pretty well, stock clutches take a lot of abuse when stalling it out in wood. Would think the belt starts to melt before the clutch completely gave out.
The mounting alignment should be straight line from the mooring clevis at the back end straight through the winch line. Offset for the chainsaw drive is fine because the only force involved there shows as belt tension force reduced by the gear ratio in the winch. The direction of the pull force driving the winch internals is isolated from the direction line of force through the winch line. So the location of the belt drive could be clocked anywhere it fits the best. If the winch line is 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock, the tension on the belt drive could even be vertical, like down from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock, with winch hung below the chainsaw. The center of gravity with the heavier winch below would be better. A slack side belt idler might be needed if the different drive angle is not a good match for the chain tension adjuster. Sprockets and chain could be used instead of a belt drive and may be better setup.
Thought about some of those different arrangements, but like you said went with the straight forward style to use the existing tensioner. It seemed to straighten itself out in the end, lol.
@@toocheaptosmoke A chain drive and sprockets is definitely the way I would have gone, with the winch located beneath and feeding line vertically onto the winch drum redirected over a roller fair lead to the horizontal pulling direction. On a chain drive there isn't much adjustment needed for slack and a chain won't slip and burn or rot like a belt. The CG lower with the winch slung beneath just makes sense as a counter to line twist forces that appear every time. The throttle is something I would have a cable and a hand grip control like a paramotor throttle so I could stand 15 feet to the side and out of the slingshot kill vector for a snapped line or torn loose mooring that launches a snatch block like a cannon. An accessory part I would have for sure packed in the toolkit for mooring the back end clevis is a tree strap / boulder belt, and a folding grapnel anchor with long tines and big flukes to plow into soft ground where there is no mooring point nearby. I see many videos where even the professionals don't have a folding grapnel anchor that would save their bacon when they have no tree or boulder to use for a mooring for a winch.
Wonder what would happen if you put the chainsaw part on full throttle (without the winch) on then proceeded to beat the shit out of it with a hammer while the chainsaw is running lol
Well sense it's fall I think it's time for a part 2 on the Suzuki fury...or the Arctic cat Z or something completely different mabey a completely different 4 stroke evenrude with a v twin 670 from harbor freight
Perfect position to get the cable wrapped around your head and rip your face off it it lets go 😂 Shake hands with danger 🤝 Love it ! Just wear a winching helmet 🪖
