Lost the battle, but I will win the war
Lost the battle, but I will win the war
So my mother-in-law always gives me hell about driving a PW. Always asking why I don't get a gas saver. Well today she asked if I could cut a tree down for her, so I got the idea if show her the POWER of the PW. I pulled up to the back gate and started to free spool the winch out, when I heard a "clank""clank". I popped the hood and sure enough the cable broke free from the drum. Well long story short no winch and not enough straps to pull it out. So not a good night for Bruce, but tonight I will be ordering more tackle for the truck and got to find a longer bolt for the winch. Then the 9' dead pine tree will be mine.
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VA_Wagon Man
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Re: Lost the battle, but I will win the war
Haha, that's funny. I was working on cutting some trees up today, some of which were on top of my shed. It was a delicate situation and I was able to save my storage shed. They were blown over from the storm we had a couple weeks ago. The shed is in the picture, you just can't see it.
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'05 Silver Power Wagon: # 869: Custom Rear Hitch & Bed Clearance Mod, Custom Front and Rear Tubular Bumpers, Airflow 3rd Gen Snorkel, Diablo Sport Predator, 35x12.50 Nitto Mud Grappler Extreme Terrain, Flow Master 40, Mopar Rock Rails, Warn 15,000lb Winch,with Thermal Bypass, 4.56 Locking front and rear Diffs, Sway-bar disconnect, Uprgraded " T " steering linkage, Fully Skid plated with fore and aft bars, Carli Front Diff Protector, RockCrusher Rear Diff Pro, Bilstein 5100's with rear Custom Valving, Pit Slave Winch Strap, CajunPW PNP Locker By-Pass,
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TwinStick
Re: Lost the battle, but I will win the war
That bolt really dont hold anything. It just keeps it in place. In a pinch, i have seen duct tape work To hold it on & do the same thing as the bolt. You need to keep a minimum of 5 wraps on the drum. I like 8 better. But you probably knew that already. 
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MSparks909
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Re: Lost the battle, but I will win the war
We had a storm blow through our area recently and took out a bunch of trees in our neighborhood. I've been cutting up a good number of trees lately and actually used my winch to help fell a maple that had snapped about 25' high. I got the tree pulled over after a buddy cut a notch but when I was hand-spooling my winch line in my solenoid crapped out about 5 feet from being wound all the way in 
I'll try to get some pics up tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have another job to do this week 
More money for the never ending PW fund...
I'll try to get some pics up tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have another job to do this week More money for the never ending PW fund...2006 QC PW G56
Suspension: 3" Thuren Diesel coils, Carli Progressive leaf springs, Thuren DYSKO bumpstops, Thuren control arms, Thuren tracbar, Thuren draglink, King 2.5" remote reservoir front shocks/2.5" King DBL bypass rear shocks, limit straps, factory swaybar end links extended 2",
Engine/Drivetrain: Airaid full intake, Airflow snorkel, Magnaflow y-pipe, 3" Flowmaster Super 44, Jet 180 t-stat, locker bypass. Carli balljoints. greasable front u-joints, Gorilla Juice in the G56, Royal Purple 75W-140 in the diffs, Shell Rotella 5W-40 in the engine w/ oversize K&N filter.
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Suspension: 3" Thuren Diesel coils, Carli Progressive leaf springs, Thuren DYSKO bumpstops, Thuren control arms, Thuren tracbar, Thuren draglink, King 2.5" remote reservoir front shocks/2.5" King DBL bypass rear shocks, limit straps, factory swaybar end links extended 2",
Engine/Drivetrain: Airaid full intake, Airflow snorkel, Magnaflow y-pipe, 3" Flowmaster Super 44, Jet 180 t-stat, locker bypass. Carli balljoints. greasable front u-joints, Gorilla Juice in the G56, Royal Purple 75W-140 in the diffs, Shell Rotella 5W-40 in the engine w/ oversize K&N filter.
Body/Appearance: Go Recon super white cab lights, Retro Solutions 55W 6000K HID kit for headlights/fogs and projector retro'd headlight, Carli front diff guard, Rockcrusher rear diff guard, lots of pinstriping & some dents
Interior: 12" JL Audio sub in custom box w/ adjustable bass knob and 500W JL Audio amplifier, headrest gun sling, CB radio
Re: Lost the battle, but I will win the war
Well I ended up cutting it down with and ax, but bruce did get to tow it off site. lol
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RustyPW
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Re: Lost the battle, but I will win the war
You got the last laff. 
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Moab '09, '10, '12, '14, '20, '22
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verdesardog
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Re: Lost the battle, but I will win the war
I never had anything but problems when I was using Warn electric winches. Now that I've had a Milemarker hydraulic for over 15yrs, I've never had any winch problems..... 
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