Tow ball mounted hoist

johndailey
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edited March 2016 in Caravans #1

A day or so ago there was a thread on tow ball mounted hoists. Can anybody point me in the right direction to find it please? I have used the search facility without sucess.

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  • johndailey
    johndailey Forum Participant Posts: 520
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    edited March 2016 #2

    Further to my original post, I should have said hitch/hoist. Has anybody used one for extracting a caravan from a muddy field and where is the best attatchment point? Round the jocky wheel shaft perhaps?

  • Navigateur
    Navigateur Club Member Posts: 3,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited March 2016 #3

    I have used a winch on a Land Rover for this sort of thing.

    Attaching to the jockey wheel shaft is too far back and can shred the fairing. I have just stuck the winch hook in the tow ball socket in years gone by, but nowadays that would destroy friction pads.  A pal had a sort of "swan neck" device with a tow ball
    on it that allowed a straight pull on the hitch.

  • bigherb
    bigherb Forum Participant Posts: 65
    edited March 2016 #4

    Further to my original post, I should have said hitch/hoist. Has anybody used one for extracting a caravan from a muddy field and where is the best attatchment point? Round the jocky wheel shaft perhaps?

    No not around the jockey wheel that would impose too much of a twisting force on the jockey wheel clamp.

    The best way is to use a winch cable adapter to fit into the tow hitch. Basically a plate with a tow ball one end and a hole for the winch cable hook the other.

  • ocsid
    ocsid Forum Participant Posts: 1,395
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    edited March 2016 #5

    Further to my original post, I should have said hitch/hoist. Has anybody used one for extracting a caravan from a muddy field and where is the best attatchment point? Round the jocky wheel shaft perhaps?

    Al-Ko used to market a webbing [25mm?] winch unit bolted to the "A" frame to draw the hitch to the towball. They seem to have now dropped it, or I can't find a link to it.

    This was bolted to the two outer holes [of a horizontal group of three] already punched into the left side girder of the "A" frame. These are I suspect the same holes that are used where a side bolted jockey wheel clamp is fitted. The winch therefore being only suitable for units fitted with the jockey wheel integrated into the hitch. 

    IMO it looked good useful kit, but being tight and with an engineering shop I was going to do my own, then I purchased a motor mover and my 'motivation' to make a puller waned.

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