Quote Originally Posted by PBBIZ2 View Post
Many many years ago I bought a BRANO - the Czech copy of the Tirfor or the original design - can't remember. One of the strongest winches within its capacity range that i have come across. It was heavy, extremely tight and hard to engage, but would winch and winch as long as you had the strength to cycle the lever and never did a shear pin. This was the single motivator to getting a powered winch! My brother still has it and its been thru hell and back, no maintenance etc and abused its whole life, but I bet if I had to use it tomorrow it would save the day.
Yeah there was only one "brand" of Tirfor for years then the Patent ran out
maybe in the early 90's and market was flooded with inferior chjnese copies.