Winch/pulley system for your buggy?

For what it's worth, the front and back hitches are rated per the operators manual at 110 lbs. each. It doesn't take much of a deer to exceed this load rating. In actuality, a factor a safety would be designed into the hitch load rating; however, we don't know what that factor of safety is, but likely 3 to 5 times the 110 lbs.

My point is to don't design something that could cause failure of the hitches. I highly recommend not mounting a mechanism to the hitch with an extended lateral arm attached. This design can quickly result in exceeding the load rating including the factor of safety. This about the added torque that one can apply with a longer wrench.

Sorry folks, this is the engineer in me speaking or typing.
 
pepr said:
For what it's worth, the front and back hitches are rated per the operators manual at 110 lbs. each. It doesn't take much of a deer to exceed this load rating. In actuality, a factor a safety would be designed into the hitch load rating; however, we don't know what that factor of safety is, but likely 3 to 5 times the 110 lbs.

My point is to don't design something that could cause failure of the hitches. I highly recommend not mounting a mechanism to the hitch with an extended lateral arm attached. This design can quickly result in exceeding the load rating including the factor of safety. This about the added torque that one can apply with a longer wrench.

Sorry folks, this is the engineer in me speaking or typing.
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makes sense to me
 
what i was implying is if you do something like this you nees stabalizers on it to make it more like a tripod to keep the weight even.I have a design that i know will work fine in my head I just havnt put it on papar yet.Its going to be used not only for deer but for mailnly loading them heavy logs into the bed so i dont kill my back.
 
something very similar to this
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at 550 thats unreal.You can do the same thing with a 60 dollor harborfreight winch and a few pieces of steel.Total cost would be less than 100 or even cheaper if you have spare parts laying around.
 
I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd share. I found an old 2000# ATV winch in my shop so I took one inch solid square stock and cut it about 3 inches longer than the depth of the front bed tubes and welded a piece of 3 inch angle the width of the bed to the square stock. Then mounted the winch in the middle of the of the angle iron. I rigged a pig tail to run to the battery with clamps to hook on the battery posts, this makes reversing the winch a lot easier. The whole deal is very easy to remove when I don't need it. I also cut a 2x10 board into two 44" pieces to use as a ramp. I've only used this setup on one fairly heavy deer and a few tractor and implement parts nothing over I'd say 300# but it works really well! and no damage to anything as far as I know. I used stuff I had laying around the shop, but even if you had to buy everything I would think you could build this rig for a couple hundred bucks.
 
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