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Nutta28
2nd May 2013, 01:24 AM
Hi all I'm just after some info from people who have do similar things.
I'm looking at putting in a vime 8000 pound hydraulic winch with a 90l a minute odd belt driven hydraulic pump. And I was wandering if anyone has any experience with hydraulic winches and what else I will need

1MadEngineer
2nd May 2013, 01:18 PM
WOW, thats a big pump! I hope you have more than 1 belt driving it? a 90l pump running at 2200 psi ( rec max of a lsht motor) can chew 30hp at the crank. IE have a look at the size of a 20kw electric motor!!!! 8000lb winch x 10 i think?

threedogs
2nd May 2013, 01:57 PM
TJM ox hydaulic winches had a steering bypass on them from memory, But as for speed they were too slow

Nutta28
3rd May 2013, 06:26 PM
Yeh from memory the Tjm ox only uses 16L per min but the vime require a min of 60L per min so a power steering pump wouldn't be able to keep up and I'm wanting this winch to be as fast as possible that's why I won't to go for the 106L per min pump

threedogs
3rd May 2013, 07:54 PM
Can you tailor make a system to suit your needs.???

Nutta28
3rd May 2013, 10:59 PM
U can but I don't no how much it's going to cost yet. I'm trying to work out what I need at the moment so that I can cost it to see if its worth it.
I'm hoping that it won't cost much over $5000 and if I can do it for around that much I think that it won't be to badly priced considering a giggle pin twin motor high mount is about $7500 and pulling a car under load it wouldn't be much slower if any.
Go onto you tube and look up vime hydraulic winch and also red hydraulic winches

nissannewby
4th May 2013, 02:23 PM
You tube god winch. You haven't seen fast until you see these.

BillsGU
4th May 2013, 02:35 PM
Everything has its dissadvantages. If you are stuck in a river and the engine stops for whatever reason - an electric winch will still get you out. I looked at hydraulic winches years ago and they were just too fiddly and too expensive. Maybe things have changed......