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Warn winch veh winch off house power?

I dealt with this myself.

For a while I bought inop cars and had to get them into my shop.

I tried one of the HF 100 volt lifting winches, it would not pull a car in.

What I ended up with is just screwing a trailer floor "D" plate to the concrete and then just using a come-a-long to pull the cars in.

Yes it took a bit of time (like 5 mins per car) but wasn't hard and I pulled in over a dozen of cars like that.

My shop is higher than the driveway so ti was all up hill as well.
I have the same result, HF 120v hoist double or triple parted will do it until it hits the apron.
Mine has the start capacitors fucked up so I wasn't sure if it was just weak or broke.
 
Sorta.

Same basic bolt and washer idea but it has a taperd hole down the center, the bottom half are slit longways and once its down you hammer the pecker pin in and it flares the bottom out. Kind of like a pop rivot.
"Strike" anchor seems the term.

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Drop-ins are more better for a garage/shop floor. You can put a bolt in and only have the head sticking out when you're not using them or even use a a set screw that sits flush with the floor surface.....and just fill them in with epoxy when you want to abandon them. Wedge bolts suck for removal and always seem to end up in the way at the most inopportune times.

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For temporary removal I would agree, for permanent removal 30 seconds with an angle grinder and they're flush with the floor..

Aaron Z

We used 1000s of red heads at my old work. Co-worker would always drill through the slab all the way so he could hammer the anchor through if it was fucked up. Made it easy to put in a new one.

Somehow he never hit any buried conduit, and I always wondered if there was a reason not to do that. Moisture?
 
We used 1000s of red heads at my old work. Co-worker would always drill through the slab all the way so he could hammer the anchor through if it was fucked up. Made it easy to put in a new one.

Somehow he never hit any buried conduit, and I always wondered if there was a reason not to do that. Moisture?
Aside from punching hole through the vapor barrier and the risk of creating a place for water to run in if you're under slab drainage is not good I don't see a huge issue with going all the way through. Not sure I would just out of principle, but I'm weird.

Aaron Z
 
well you could use a DC stick welder, but it'll arc out the contacts on the solenoids and also run the motor really fast because it'll be seeing like 30-80v depending on load
CV mig welder supply might be better, turned down to the lowest voltage, but not many have one laying around that'll do 300A

just use a battery and one of them roll around battery chargers
two or three chargers if you're really feeling impatient
 
I dealt with this myself.

For a while I bought inop cars and had to get them into my shop.

I tried one of the HF 100 volt lifting winches, it would not pull a car in.

What I ended up with is just screwing a trailer floor "D" plate to the concrete and then just using a come-a-long to pull the cars in.

Yes it took a bit of time (like 5 mins per car) but wasn't hard and I pulled in over a dozen of cars like that.

My shop is higher than the driveway so ti was all up hill as well.

drill powered winch is real handy for jobs like this.




how much weight the OP need to pull. i know warn makes ac powered winches, i've made a few mounting plates for a contractor that puts them at beach access houses to pull their boats up.
 
how much weight the OP need to pull. i know warn makes ac powered winches, i've made a few mounting plates for a contractor that puts them at beach access houses to pull their boats up.
Actually, I have one of those sitting in the shop (takes a 3/4 HP AC powered motor), can look to see what its rated at, might be interested in parting with it if the OP wants to ship it cross country, I am unlikely to use it.

Aaron Z
 
Actually, I have one of those sitting in the shop (takes a 3/4 HP AC powered motor), can look to see what its rated at, might be interested in parting with it if the OP wants to ship it cross country, I am unlikely to use it.

Aaron Z
I dont want it. Ive got enough winches.
 
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