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Post by 1dave on Jul 12, 2024 8:32:45 GMT -5
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Post by RickB on Jul 12, 2024 11:00:53 GMT -5
I thought you said wenching.
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Post by chris1956 on Jul 12, 2024 16:38:10 GMT -5
Can you spell "crazy"?
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realrockhound
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Post by realrockhound on Jul 12, 2024 18:09:05 GMT -5
I used a winch once to pull a 200 lb piece of agate up a 80 foot cliff face one 😂
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Post by chris1956 on Jul 12, 2024 18:15:58 GMT -5
I used a winch once to pull a 200 lb piece of agate up a 80 foot cliff face one 😂 Man, all engineers think alike. Last fall, I used my tractor, chains, rope, and towing straps to drag a 500 pound piece of quartzite out of a 40 foot deep gulley. If I had a winch, I would have tried that first. |
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realrockhound
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Chucking leaverite at tweekers
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Post by realrockhound on Jul 12, 2024 18:21:28 GMT -5
I used a winch once to pull a 200 lb piece of agate up a 80 foot cliff face one 😂 Man, all engineers think alike. Last fall, I used my tractor, chains, rope, and towing straps to drag a 500 pound piece of quartzite out of a 40 foot deep gulley. If I had a winch, I would have tried that first. My buddy was the one who found the piece and told me about it. I knew he was going back to hound the area and told him to take a pic so I could see. I went up mid way through the week and found the piece. Literally impossible to get out from below. So I got my equipment and went to the top. Crawled down through a shoot on the cliff face and hooked it up, went back up top and winched it to the top. Loaded it in the atv and left 😂. He went back and was like wtf.. someone took it. About a month later I dropped it in his yard as a gift lol. He was so confused until I told him it was me. |
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ThomasT
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Post by ThomasT on Jul 12, 2024 18:23:43 GMT -5
Those guys made it look easy. They have the equipment and know how to use it for sure.
The winches on my trucks are used to pull logs or whatnot uphill or get somebody unstuck in the rainy season sometimes.
When a young man, for me it was hours by hand using only muscle power with cable pullers and come alongs... and sweat.
No more hand winching these days.
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ThomasT
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Post by ThomasT on Jul 12, 2024 18:26:37 GMT -5
Man, all engineers think alike. Last fall, I used my tractor, chains, rope, and towing straps to drag a 500 pound piece of quartzite out of a 40 foot deep gulley. If I had a winch, I would have tried that first. My buddy was the one who found the piece and told me about it. I knew he was going back to hound the area and told him to take a pic so I could see. I went up mid way through the week and found the piece. Literally impossible to get out from below. So I got my equipment and went to the top. Crawled down through a shoot on the cliff face and hooked it up, went back up top and winched it to the top. Loaded it in the atv and left 😂. He went back and was like wtf.. someone took it. About a month later I dropped it in his yard as a gift lol. He was so confused until I told him it was me. That was a cool mine (mind) trick on your buddy there. |
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Post by orrum on Jul 13, 2024 7:20:58 GMT -5
Lol
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Post by 1dave on Jul 19, 2024 17:40:44 GMT -5
it's good to see you are still "out there." |
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Post by orrum on Jul 20, 2024 6:52:45 GMT -5
Dave We are just busted up old rockhounds pardner but are still holden on!!!
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