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Richard Pike
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 Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:40 pm Post subject: Hangar winch |
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My hangar is on a somewhat sloped hill, I take off down hill, land up hill, and drag the airplane up the side slope of the hill to get it back into the hangar. The older I get, the less I enjoy dragging the airplane back uphill into the hangar.
Today I had a happy time - attached a winch that drags the airplane back into the hangar for me!
When Harbor Freight puts this little winch on sale it is $50. Not too bad, and then my son works in a garage, and was able to gift me a used battery that still works good enough to drive the winch.
So here's what I ended up with: replace the original steel winch cable with paracord. Cheap, #500 working load, and a lot easier to live with than metal cable.
Bolt the rig to something sturdy, get your self a pulley, and you are good to go!
The winch has a remote control fob, which makes it easy to move around in the hangar and align the tailwheel to the ramp, check the rope winding up on the spool, etc. It is not very fast, but that is not a bad thing; gives you time to make sure nothing is going to go where you don't want it.
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Richard Pike
Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
Kingsport, TN 3TN0
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| Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 4:03 pm Post subject: Hangar winch |
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On 3/21/2019 5:40 PM, Richard Pike wrote:
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My hangar is on a somewhat sloped hill, I take off down hill, land up hill, and drag the airplane up the side slope of the hill to get it back into the hangar. The older I get, the less I enjoy dragging the airplane back uphill into the hangar.
Today I had a happy time - attached a winch that drags the airplane back into the hangar for me!
When Harbor Freight puts this little winch on sale it is $50. Not too bad, and then my son works in a garage, and was able to gift me a used battery that still works good enough to drive the winch.
So here's what I ended up with: replace the original steel winch cable with paracord. Cheap, #500 working load, and a lot easier to live with than metal cable.
Bolt the rig to something sturdy, get your self a pulley, and you are good to go!
The winch has a remote control fob, which makes it easy to move around in the hangar and align the tailwheel to the ramp, check the rope winding up on the spool, etc. It is not very fast, but that is not a bad thing; gives you time to make sure nothing is going to go where you don't want it.
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Richard Pike
Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
Kolb Firefly Part 103 legal (Ready for a test flight on the new 277)
Kingsport, TN 3TN0
Forgiving is tough, being forgiven is wonderful, and God's grace really is amazing.
Looks good, but 500 lbs would worry me a bit, if I had to stand in the
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Rex Rodebush
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Location: Branson West area, Missouri
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 7:01 am Post subject: Re: Hangar winch |
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Nice, inexpensive solution to a problem. Very clever!
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