I love when you show your Grandfathers tools and spare parts. The saved tools and parts passed down to me have saved me out of so many binds as well, the stuff my great grandfathers saved, stuff that is over 100 years old mostly, are still helping me and making my life better to this day, I love and appreciate those who came before me.
I have my Father's spare screws, bolts, electrical parts and whatnot. He passed away at 92 in 2013. WWII Veteran. That generation never wasted anything. They lived through the Depression and learned to conserve.
Same here. We still have old parts hanging from the rafters in our barn, every nut and bolt and doodad scavenged and placed in old glass jars. Amazing how many times it’s helped out. It’s a habit I think will become more necessary in the coming years. Our grand parents lived through tough times with next to nothing. I think we may be heading that way ourselves.
What you’re missing in your winch setup are snatch blocks and a couple extensions. Remember, each snatch block reduces the load necessary on your winch and cable.
Man, that sticker part bugged me. They go through all the trouble of 3D modeling that housing and instead of having the logo debossed in it, they slap a sticker on it. And to the folks at Warn, how many stickers do you see intact on century old equipment? None. They put their logo in metal with pride. Get your head out of your… I’ll let you finish the sentence.
My grandfather's tools are also a prized possession of mine. Everytime I get them out I remember all the times spent with him and wisdom he bestowed upon me. God bless our machinist grandfathers and their buckets of bolts!
My grandfather also left me a cpl tubs of spare bolts/screws/ washers etc. They have saved me countless times and everytime i look at them i always think back on old memories. Lifes about the little things. Much love
As a viewer and fan of both channels, I don't see how a kinetic rope would really help Cody. Not a bad tool to have at your disposal, I'll certainly never argue that point. But most if not all of the winching I've seen him do is when he's by himself. The times where he's winching people, he's rarely in conditions that he's able to yank someone out. Matt's got custom built rigs that are small yet POWERFUL and extremely capable off road. A 1 ton crew cab long bed is still a heavy pig that's too freaking long to do what the Jeeps and his MORRVAIR do. Weight is a killer in soft conditions. I've seen a Subaru WRX yank a SEMI out of a bank of snow before with one of those dynamic ropes. Having the right tool for the job is important, but knowing which tool you actually need is more important.
So even the Warn is susceptible to failure due to user error.... with all due respect I think you also pushed that Harbor Freight winch too far by trying to pull that stump out. I think what you need is an extremely tough and powerful winch since you tend to use them for heavy tasks. The irony of it all is the Harbor Freights synthetic cable was the thing you were most critical of and now you might end up using it on the Warn.
@@StephenShreds there's also a difference between the stress/load he put on each winch. The outcomes were different but so were the scenarios and in both cases it was user error that resulted in failure. All I'm saying is I think he should've given the HF a second chance.
@@StephenShreds yes, but if you go back and look at the video where the harbor freight broke. The was a failure but they kept going. It looks like this time he learned and stopped so as not to destroy the winch.
I completely agree I think he put that harbor freight which Way beyond what it should have been I believe he was trying to destroy it I have the same winch I bought it actually on his recommendations I've never been happier with it I have pulled out the international h from a pond stuck in the mud I have actually pulled down to the dead trees I end up breaking the tow strap around the tree then hooking a chain to it to finish pointing down that was with my truck hooked to the international age with a plow in the ground and I pulled a school bus back onto the road from being in a minor ditch without it even sweating
Nope. The frame should NEVER be stronger than the winch motor. Period. What's so hard to understand about that? That's be like having a car, and if you have it too much gas, the motor mounts broke. That doesn't happen. (Assuming a stock motor.) What is so hard to understand about that? That winch should pull and pull until thermal cut off, and never break the frame. two different failures. It seems so obvious to me, but some people think that BREAKING THE FRAME is the same as this. I suppose if he left the remote out on the ground and ran it over, you'd use that to justify the FRAME BREAKING.
12:25 Oh, I definitely agree. Me, myself, I spend practically all my time correcting people who are wrong on the internet and telling them how they should have done what they just did. Their work is so shoddy I'm able to advise improvements even though I have never done -most- any of those tasks myself! ( o.o)
I have a few of my grandfathers tools! One of the hardest working men I ever new! Thank God he lived to be 93 so he was a grandpa to me and my children. We were blessed!👍❤️
My grandfather was a carpenter by trade! When I was learning to do carpentry work I could call him in the phone Pa my rafter is this long and has this much fall he would to me put your framing square on this number and this number and it would be exactly correct!
My late Dad, had a drawer full of random hardware, nuts, bolts & washers, but much ended up disappearing after his mind was effected by Parkinson’s disease. After his passing my brother-in-law & I, sorted through the remains, & separated by size, nuts & washers. For towing, I invested in a snatch block, & soft shackles. ❤️ Getting stuck once in our side by side, at the edge of a field, in a dirt camouflaged snow drift, I had to resort to walking home, to get a horseshoe stake, & two lb mall. I used them to winch myself out, being the nearest tree, would have just pulled me deeper in. I pounded the stake into the frozen dirt, & was able to use it to winch myself out. Good idea (💡) that actually worked!
Technically you don't need an attachment point on the drum; you could just finaggle a wrap, held with some duct tape, and then very carefully start to spool. Make sure you NEVER go less than 5 wraps when de-spooling to make sure you don't lose constriction on the drum. Put a piece of bright gorilla tape on the line outside the fairlead to make the point. That piece of tape should never go more than a few inches out of the fairlead.
@@evilcryalotmore yes, friction due to the constriction of the line on the drum. The attachment point is really just a convenience, and should NEVER bear any load. Once the line is deployed to take load, there should be a minimum of 5 wraps on the drum.
One time I needed an odd fastener that I couldn't find at Lowe's, Home Depot, or even Fastenal. I finally looked in Grandpa's old fastener box and I found it!
The fact that you were able to see both the size and thread pitch with one look was pretty amazing to me. And the fact that Warner still uses SAE sizes was hearting to me. Awesome.
I love watching this Fellow Man, and brother because I can so easily relate! Had me laughing at the end with fixing my own mistakes. Thanks for the family content.
When I have to search bolt/washer piles, I first lay down a shop towel or old bath towel, and dump my “treasures” out on the towel. Afterwards, it makes it easy to pick up the towel and dump the treasures back in to their container.
I always enjoyed watching you work. Gives me hope that it there are men in this world who know how to fix things. I had a father who was the oldest of all of my friends fathers. And he always said to me “son if a man owns some thing he needs to know how to fix it“. How true how true!
Just pondering the effects of men and their sons. Growing up without a traditional dad really limits our resources. How cool to have you raising Jack and to learn from your father and your fathers father. We spend our time fixing others mistakes and the rest we make mistakes of our own. HAHA. Have a great day, God bless and take care.
I love that you still have all the old parts and pieces your grandfather saved and show how saving them has made it possible to effect a repair now. It is too easy to just through away what we don't need today and then go buy something if we need it in the future. Epic ending for the video as well.
I'd love to have a bin of bolts like that, I'm working on saving my own bolts. But For a winch you want a grade 8 bolt or better yet a socket head cap screw. Very glad to see you got yourself a PROPER set of calipers. Cheap measuring tools you can't trust aren't worth a fart.
Two weeks ago I got the news that my hvac needed to be replaced. The tech showed me what happened to cause me to call him that day. A copper line was resting on another one and when I turned the heat on it caused my Freon to leak. I live in Florida so using the heat isn’t a normal thing. A lot of times it’s just the blower on circulating the air. But had that tube not rubbed a hole in the heating part of my system over the last 14 years it would still be chugging along. So the wife and I are scrambling to gather the resource to replace this hvac system so we can have heat. On the bright side I’m pretty impressed with how my house retains temperature. Hasn’t fluctuate more than 6 degrees inside while the temperature outside dropped to 28
As soon as you pulled out the blue rope, i laughed a little. My yankum rope is 1" and I wouldn't recommend yanking more than 11k without a snatch setup. The ratings are a little different for tow ropes vs kinetic ropes, but a 7/8" rope seems about right. That should handle a pickup truck. If you want to move a HD or a 1/2 ton and trailer both, I'd go with 1" or thicker rope.
At my job we say " We do it nice because we do it twice". And that is our upper supervision changing the construction jobs direction. We get paid by the hour, no worries.
I inherited a pile of tools from my ex-stepfather-in-law that have saved my bacon many a time. Recently I found a brass rod in my late father-in-law’s tools that I used to seat a bearing in a wheel hub. I think it gives them peace knowing that their tools are still solving problems.
And this is a perfect example of when the fine-tooth ratchet comes in handy. If something's hanging in the river, are you sure the government will let you work on it without an environmental permit?
On fixing my own/others mistakes. . . I’m a software developer, so I’m less than an east coast man, and I spend more time fixing bugs I created than I care to admit. Any software developer that says otherwise probably caught a world record fish when nobody was looking.
I’m going through all of the tools I inherited from my grandfather this week ironically, lots of bolt extractors and taps and dies. All of his tools were made in usa. He couldn’t afford snap on but lots of proto, williams, and craftsman’s high quality vintage tools, I love it!
Cody, that second hole is for use south of the equator... Like with water running down the drain, things turn in the opposite direction in places like Australia. 😉
I appreciate all the things I inherited from my grandfather. Not a great number of things but some that have come in very handy over the years. "Handy-man" jack, block and tackle, pry-bars, some carpentry tools and some odds and ends. Got some more from my dad. Yup, even the bolts and nuts!! LOL!!
I originally bought one of those calipers for gauging guitar and double bass strings. They're great. In fact I bought two, because my ex wife nicked mine for jewellery work. Then I had to buy more, because the steel is not good for scribing steel, and they all seem to come from the same factory regardless of branding. Still measure okay with the tips worn though. They eat batteries as they get older. Still have my great uncle's old Verniers. Inches only. He was a chipper, and died before Australia saw metric. After I derusted them, I had to rescribe the gradiations with a tungsten graver. Yes I could read it fine, (before the eyes went about age 49).
Harbor freight and warn are the same machine and ford's don't do good in snow that's why they come with heated tailgates to keep your hands while pushing
My problem is, I hate doing "hacky moto " work. So I put off big projects until I can do the job clean, correctly and with the right parts and tools. Then... as soon as I get something pulled apart and cleaned (a multi day endeavor) something else breaks that I desperately need for daily feeding or driving or just daily life in general. Now I have to leave the "project " and scramble with leftover, saved, used parts. And it usually happens after hours or weekends or when there's not enough time to get to town 8 miles away before the hardware store closes. And guess what, now I have another unfinished project that will sit for years before I get back to it. Yes I have many. Now that I'm retired I'm trying to get back to them.
Cody for situations like this you just need a set of bolt on Tracks they will greatly improve your winter time driving. And they install as simple as changing a tire. 🤟🏻🇺🇸
I'm sure youve probably already heard of it but you should consider the yankum ropes fairlead and winch line it's a super cool system. Alot of the big off-road guys are all switching to it. I'd recommend watching dirt lifestyles video or Casey ladells video from cascade heavy rescue. Not talking bad on the warn stuff it just seems like a product that would give you THE FIZZ😁
Seems similar to when using spectra line on fishing reels always use a little bit of mono backing otherwise that synthetic line there slips on the spool. Maybe that line with only a couple wraps slips around the spool pulls mostly on that bolt rather than the drum?
My dad used to try to tell me "If you do it right the first time, you won't have to do it again." But I think I've fallin into the "you never have time to do it right, but you have time to do it twice." Side of life. I need to make doing things proper a habit.
If it were me I would setup my recovery gear for at least 26k lbs. ( the max gross vehical combination weight a professional home owner can run W/O needing a CDL - class A) then you know what ever you are pulling you can get out of a snow bank or ditch. So for me I like recovery straps. I believe most companies that offer a 3" by 30 ft strap are rated around the 30k lbs area then all you need to do is snatch block the winch and make sure your anchor point is strong enough.
The extra line from the harbor freight winch will give you some added pulling distance but I might have more practical solution for you. I keep 200 feet of 1/2 inch static rescue rated rope in my truck. That stuff is rated for 9850 lds of force. Double it for vehicle towing if you need to, and use it single for all the other times that you just need rope.
