Bill….. Mine is “old school” and VERY old. I think I bought it to pull the engine/ gearbox unit from my 1959 Austin Healey Sprite, in the late ‘60’s. We’d push the little car up onto the front lawn (when my parents weren’t home) and strap the winch to the lowest limb of the only tree in the yard. Lift the unit straight up and then push the car away. Next, drop it into a wagon to move back to the garage…..
Spotted this on Amazon and they seem to have changed very little.
2T capacity.
HA, my dad told me he had an Austin Healey when he was a teen in RI, he went off the road and hit a tree with it. He fixed some damage but soon a main bearing was unhappy, turned out the accident had bent the crankshaft because the crank pulley hit the tree :-).
We pulled a few sprint car engines with a come along, I seem to remember they could be setup single reduction or double reduction ?? Double reduction to pull an engine, single reduction to pull the sprint car onto the trailer.
I do have a chain type come along I got from HF but it has nowhere near the pulling length of the cable come along. Hmm seems not intended for other than a vertical lift. HF makes a 2 ton come along which has a ten foot pull, 6' double reduction 10 foot single reduction. They make a 6/10 foot 1 tons that is half the price, a guy might buy two and then be able to pull 10' at a wack and hold the load until the second one had it. I should at least have the 1 ton in my truck, it is a mere $18.99.
In a pinch I have seen guys pull things with chain binders they already had on a semi truck......
https://www.harborfreight.com/5400-lb-capacity-heavy-duty-non-ratcheting-load-binder-36022.htmlIt is slow going but you can drag a load with them, no idea what the real leverage is.
Bill
