I love Tirfors - I have them in all sizes. I have a cheap Chinese copy of the Jockey winch hoist baby Tirfor which is rated to 500kg but I suspect much less. Quality not great but does the job. Used it loads of times including pulling a 5000kg lathe on rollers. I once used the baby one to pull a stretched limo up a steep drive. Used a Nissan Bluebird as an anchor point and the baby winch was dragging the Nissan up and over the brick chocks. Incredible. I shudder to think what the 3500kg one would do. I will get one of these babies - look a lot more robust than the Chinese copy I have. I keep it in an aluminium toolbox/briefcase - very James Bondish! Thanks for posting the video but you have cost me money now!
The Yale is a Chinese clone, but a good quality clone. Weirdly, I too keep mine in an aluminium briefcase (old Makita drill case). + Three 1 ton webbing slings, 3 shackles and a short extension for the handle I made from a broken socket wrench handle.
@@RememberTheSlapFilms My big ones I hardly use because they are such hard work. I keep the cables rolled up in car tyres. Much easier to roll around. I once used the 1600kg Tirfor to pull a 20 foot shipping container up a steep slope on greased railway sleepers. Did it no problem but they are so slow. My brother reckons you could steal things with a Tirfor because nobody would notice its gone! Never used the 3500kg one in anger.
@@codprawn I know the feeling. Sometimes just setting up the 1600 is knackering, depending on location. Well, it's all the ancillary stuff too, the chains, slings, box of ironmongery, and God forbid pulleys. Heavy stuff to lug across fields or up hillsides. I used a 3.2 ton once to drop and raise a 6kw wind turbine. The guy bought the tirfor just for that one job... Amazing capability. The Yale clones even come in a 5 tonne version which is monkey winch territory.
@@RememberTheSlapFilms I am going to get either one of these or I have found someone selling a Habeggar HIT6 in very good condition. The Yaletrac is a bit smaller and lighter but the Habeggar is pretty light as well. Decisions decisions! Can you measure the wire rope for me on yours? Is it 6mm or 6.4mm - cheers!
True. They're all commonly known as Tirfor or Griphoist or Greifzuge depending on region. Tirfor was the first and best, all the others are clones or near clones.
I nearly bought one this morning on ebay, It sold about half hour before i got up though!! How do you rate these things?? I have a genuine 1.6 ton Tirfor, which is mega quality, but terribly heavy.. I need something to use when tip rigging and lifting branches or making sure leaning small trees fall the right way. Do you think one of these would be what i need?? The light weight would be a HUGE bonus i think..
I rate it highly! It's steel shell, like the real tirfors. A cut above the usual Chinese clone quality, but it's still a clone. Came with 5 sheer pins. Yale make this in all the the usual sizes as well as a monster 30-sonething kg 5 tonner with an inch thick cable. That's a two man machine and rarely seen. I have no-name generic clones in aluminum in 800kg and 1600kg, and they're good, but the little 500kg Yale clone is excellent. You'll need a longer cable though, the stock cable is only 10m. Get it, you will find uses for it! Small enough to keep in an old drill case in the vehicle full time, with cable, strops and everything...as regards the weight, it's nice on two levels. Firstly, it's less fatiguing to carry it around, obviously. Secondly, it's easy to set it up alone. I find I often need to set the tirfor high, at least head high, to get the best angle of pull. With the 800 it's a chore, and with the 1600kg model it's barely possible for me to hold the tirfor in one hand and connect it to the tree strop with the other hand, overhead. Maybe a musclebound man-mountain can manage this, but it's not my cup of tea. The work is hard enough without that kind of carrying on. With the micro tirfor it's a breeze though. I can get the angles I want and save energy. Yale actually make two versions of the 500kg which look a bit different, but they're both yellow. One is made in the far east (mine) and the other is made in Germany, I think. It's a lot more expensive....another thought occurs - because the thing is so light, there's never an excuse to not bring it along. Depending on the type of job, it's handy to set it up out of the way and use it for pulling things I can and would otherwise pull by hand, or hand and rope, but knacker myself in the process. There's also the Massadam rope puller, which might be even better, Grube.EU have them now.
