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Old 1st November 2007, 05:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I just bought a rope puller (come a long ) do any of you guys use these . If so got any tips or stories about them . I think will be great for pull small to medium trees .This is the best pic I can find
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Old 1st November 2007, 05:45 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I've used one for years.

I often tie a 5/8inch rope in the tree....the tie a pulley on the 5/8....and this gives the rope puller a two to one mechanical advantage.
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Old 1st November 2007, 08:42 PM   #3 (permalink)
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There's no pic loaded up?
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Old 1st November 2007, 09:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Use one all the time. They are light, great for packing in the bush, and can pull a decent load. I use it with 1/2 inch climbing line, but it works better if the rope is not new. This is one of my favorite, non-motorized, pieces of equipment.
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Old 2nd November 2007, 03:44 AM   #5 (permalink)
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no picture I will take some in the next couple days .
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Old 3rd November 2007, 04:37 AM   #6 (permalink)
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All my ropes have eye terminations. This does not allow the rope to be fed into and through and around the cleated drum. There is no way to apply the rope come-a-long midline, so if your rope is long, you may need to pull a good length through until you can start tensioning- then after doing whatever you're doing you have to simultaneously disengage both the pawl and the ratchet (two-handed operation) and pulling rope back through at the same time .


It's anything but fast, but does what it does uniquely well. I've had mine onboard for about ten years and have used it about ten times. It doesn't get much use, but is still a valuable tool to have in the arsenal.

I have used it to get a truck unstuck (it wasn't badly stuck, just needed that little oomph), anchored to a distant tree. The other day we had a log arch carrying a big log in a deep back yard. We had to roll it out by hand, over uneven terrain and couldn't do the whole run on human push power alone. The rope winch allowed us to solve the problem with hardly a bump in the day, except I had to cut off an eye termination in the pull rope to use it.

It's affordable to begin with, and just getting past the two described issues alone made it worth having in the kit. It's a tool that doesn't take up much room.

I don't know how you can stuff a 5/8" rope in there, though, pretty tight fit with a half inch diameter rope.
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Old 3rd November 2007, 04:40 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I just bought an el cheapo one from SuperCheap Auto today.

Reckons good for 4000kg's so I'll try it tomorrow.

Handy for some side tensioning or to back up a tree ya wedging.
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Old 3rd November 2007, 02:38 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I figured this would be a good too for you ekka seeing your videos you work in a lot of small yards.
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Old 5th November 2007, 09:37 PM   #9 (permalink)
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ive always wondered about those! Now rather than using one I have got into using a 5:1 block and tackle rigged to prusik loop. The nice thing is you can adjust the loop down the rope to take another bight
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Old 6th November 2007, 04:41 AM   #10 (permalink)
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If I have rope puller issue, I'm most often rig a 3 or 4:1 with one of the pulleys being a locking cammed pulley, like a Petzl ProTraxion, pretty fast setup (esp w
an eye termination), much faster pull and I don't have to cut off an eye in the rope.

Nonetheless, a tool worth having.
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Old 6th November 2007, 05:14 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Here's how I often use the Maasdam rope puller.


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Old 6th November 2007, 07:29 AM   #12 (permalink)
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i think i just might be using one in the next few weeks i will be sure to gather some pics. thats a great idea TreeCo. i will most likely model your setup.


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Old 15th November 2007, 08:07 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Ever use that rope puller Ekka? Saw that one at supershyte today.
Anyone else have some pics of them at work?
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Old 20th November 2007, 03:59 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Ha

Bought it and haven't used it yet!

It'll be OK though, for felling, has a 3m cable for 2000kg pull.
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Old 26th November 2007, 09:28 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I used my puller last week worth every penny great thing to have but I did not take pictures . You can really put some good pressure on a rope I think might looking into buying some new 3 strand . Mines getting some good wear on it . I used the rope puller on 3 trees last week loved it .
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Old 26th November 2007, 11:09 PM   #16 (permalink)
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I used mine

So whadya get up to today.

Was crap to untension, real finger trap material, if there's heaps of pressure on that cheap thing I bought it's a slow process to release it .... bring a screw driver!
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Old 27th November 2007, 12:08 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I am using mine as puller so I am putting as much presure as I can with out breaking the rope and dropping the tree ,kind of replacing a truck , tractor,skidsteer. i dont have to worry about cowboys(hope the word cowboy does not offend anyone ) ripping tops out with a truck . Mine is a rope puller it will pull as much rope as I got but is rated 1500lbs but 1500lbs 50ft high on a 75 foot tree goes along way right
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Old 1st December 2007, 09:29 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I saw one in my wesspur catuloge as a kit with a sling and 150' of 3 strand rope for $164.I might have to get one.
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