Jennifer Lazarow Home alone with 3 little kids in a snow/ice storm and plow cable broke. Thanks so much for this video! Problem solved! Wish I could share the picture of my awesome fix.
I have now learned that the only thing you need to survive in the wild, is RU-vid. You saved my butt today, when the ATV winch broke mid-plow, and we're getting loads of snow. Better than new! Thanks!
Dude, you are a king! You saved us. The main lift cable to our pop-up camper broke as we were popping up. The camper was loaded with our stuff including food. No mechanics would see us in less than two weeks except recruiting a bunch of strong men to manually lift it to get our things inside. After watching your video, we Molly Hogan-ed the broken end in 5 min. We bought a cable with a hook from Ace for $15, attached it to my Jeep, then popped it up. Thanks.
Dude, thanks for taking a couple of minutes to show this. I was struggling with this and thought, maybe a utube guys has an easy fix. Yep!! Gotter done....
Hey thanks for making this video right now we are getting pounded by a blizzard and tonight the cable gave up. Any how 20 mins after finding this video cable is fixed and I am pushing snow again.
Good slpice been doing for years got my captains licence 1983 going to let it expire this year came ashore at age 60, 5 years ago. Now driving land ships big rigs.
George Salvesen usually the cable breaks right at the hook. usually because Billy Bob hooked the line up on a sharp edge and pinched the line. I don't know of a way to safely repair a line broke in the middle. if that happens hopefully you have enough line on the drum to reattach hook and keep winching.
So if cable is rated at say 10,000 pounds what is rated at now? 1/2 load maybe? Better said, that as good as bringing somewhere and having them press a loop on?
Louis P. When a company makes a loop in a wire rope they do exactly what I did and they slice the tail back in to itself. And then they press the clamp on it.
Keller Mccowen Sorry what I meant was using a thimble and then pressing on a ferrule or swage sleeve with no splicing vs what you did with splicing. What’s stronger?
Keller Mccowen oh ok. I see all these videos showing taking an even cut end, putting one side through a two sided ferrule, folding it over a thimble and putting it back thru the other side (double swage) or ferrule and using a swage tool to crimp. No splice at all. Guess your saying that way sucks? LOL
