Winch size

LOOKS good and is as strong as any based on the shear value of the two bolts (unless there are more).

Gotta say Yesterday I managed to go off a steep edge down into my creek ( about a 45% 10 foot muddy drop) and had to use all 6000# of winching power to get me back up to the top and back on the road. No damage to RTV but i'll be limping (again) for awhile. Luckily creek is low.
 
Glad you are ok, and kubota. This is a Warrior 4500, it also has six bolts, four back behind the two you see in the front, ( you have to reach them from the top with the hood open and bottom )also a brace underneath the plate where it is sticking out a little. I wanted something that I would not have to do any welding on the kubota. I'm sure the four bolts holding the winch to the angle iron would give up first. They aren't as big as I would have liked. Then again I tend to build on the strong side. The way it's on I can take it off without much trouble if needed.
 
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Thanks for the kind words and concern. Been having leg problems and made it worse climbing up to tie off to big tree. I also am concerned about welding anything to the RTV uniframe and designed and built bolt on bumper attachments and such. I strongly suggest at least a rear bumper as it has saved my rear end (s) from big rocks on many occaisions.

One thing I did for the winch mount is retap the metric threads in the winch area and install us made grade 8 bolts. Forget what size but shear value was 60k each so no worries here. I always build to HFS specs (HELL FOR STOUT) with minimum factor of safety of 10. Going to make the creek pay me back by panning some more gold. Thats if the Chinese left me any. Their diversion walls are over my property and can post pics if you want to see what they look like.
 
Nope Near Placerville CA. Chinese built stone wall to divert creek so they could mine the stream bed. I actually have a "wagon" easement in my deed to allow covered wagons across creek.
 

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Nope Near Placerville CA. Chinese built stone wall to divert creek so they could mine the stream bed. I actually have a "wagon" easement in my deed to allow covered wagons across creek.

Gotta be careful..... We all getting to old to push it to the limit !!!

LOVE THAT HISTORY !!!
So you live where there was gold mined. That is something, I am impressed my friend !!!
It's has always impressed me reading old documents. Being they way things were back then. The ALWAYS included the little things, so there were be no
mis-understandings with property owners.

We have been collecting documents, bill of sales, deeds, steamboat invoices, titles, from the late 1700's to 1940's. You would be surprised of
what some statements some documents state.
Just the other day, we found a old Holy Bible,from back in Civil War., in a old building. Inside the Bible, was old paperwork of a young lady learning to write. The penmanship was beautiful strokes of art. 1863 was what was dated.

........ two guns
 
That is on the lower end of the property. Up on top (some 300' above the creek) we live directly above a gold mine. Been looking for an adit or stope holes but no luck. Neighbor has a flooded adit in his front yard and almost sure we punched thru old tunnels when our well was drilled. There are camp sites everywhere on the hill side where the miners sought refuge from the mosquitos near the creek. My metal detector has found zero stuff as the chinese never tossed anything away.
 
That is on the lower end of the property. Up on top (some 300' above the creek) we live directly above a gold mine. Been looking for an adit or stope holes but no luck. Neighbor has a flooded adit in his front yard and almost sure we punched thru old tunnels when our well was drilled. There are camp sites everywhere on the hill side where the miners sought refuge from the mosquitos near the creek. My metal detector has found zero stuff as the chinese never tossed anything away.

Mrs Two Guns & myself have a surplus metallic / non-metallic mine sweeping unit.
This thing is strong. We use it in civil war battlefields down here. Find all kinds of stuff. It's a interesting, never surprized what you come up with.
This thing will finds old bottles, tools, guns barrels & actions, bullets, the list goes on and on.
Great to go around the old plantation houses and shacks, sweeping down old wagon trails where the soldiers used to slip in and out of the swamps....
There is all kinds of stuff hid out in the woods .....

Bet you anything, there is much hid out where you are too vintovka, it's just a matter of finding it. And what is surprising. once you find one, it's like the domino effect. You will keep finding the spots. You learn how they did it, and you learn how they think .....

....... two guns
 
Just have a cheapy Big 5 detector. Did find a bottom iron sieve out of a sluice box and a fitting from a hydraulic cannon. Not hardly worth anything. Best part of that area is its my own private park and range. Can't hear anything but creek and birds and thats worth more than the gold.
 
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