Favorite Come-Along

Treezybreez

Treezybreez

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What is the best Come-Along out there? I remember a climber from Tennessee posted a link to a nice one a while back, but I can't seem to find it.
 
Just got a Maasdam to pull my truck out of a hole I dropped the front wheel in. I did not get the three strand rope, but it was pulling about as hard as I could lever with my 16 strand Yale Fire XTC 1/2' rope, on a straight pull . Treezy, you are welcome to borrow it if you like.
 
I worked for a company that issued maasdams to use for pulling over bug trees. Though kind of slow they worked ok, but if put under a lot of stress they can slip. I personally saw a near Catastrophic Accident when one slipped while under a servere load.
I think I'd stick with a 5 to 1 over a maasdem or come a long. Especially those cheap cable ones.
 
beastmaster said:
I worked for a company that issued maasdams to use for pulling over bug trees. Though kind of slow they worked ok, but if put under a lot of stress they can slip. I personally saw a near Catastrophic Accident when one slipped while under a servere load.
I think I'd stick with a 5 to 1 over a maasdem or come a long. Especially those cheap cable ones.
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I know they say the maasdams are rated for 1500lb, but if I ever feel that I will be approaching that I run it as a 2:1. In a straight pull it will conservatively guve me 1000lbs with one hand. A 5:1 will pull about 600-700lbs using your full body.

Since getting the maasdam my 5:1 has been parted out only to be reassembled once, when we forgot the maasdam.

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Keeping fairly new 3 strand in the Maasdam makes a big difference on slippage. I bent the handle on mine last week trying to unstick my truck. Doggies! I was pulling as hard as I possibly could, much harder than I've ever pulled on a tree and it never slipped. I should've put a block (or two) in the system but I think it's fixable.
 
I put a shackle on the end of mine (opposite the hook end). I have not used it yet, but my thinking is I can terminate my doubled line there with a pulley in the system at the load.
 
Treezybreez said:
Today I had the power company drop a line to the house so we could take down a tree. I was impressed with the lineman's hoist: https://www.jharlen.com/p-10140-little-mule-300a-3000-lbs-linemans-strap-hoist.aspx
a little on the expensive side though.
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I have three "little mules". They are bad ass. Two 3k and one 6 which never really comes out to play.
The 6k is fixed in the 2:1 and doesn't have that much throw. The smaller ones are the bomb and well worth the coin. I love the ratcheting and release while undernload, very controlled but a bit slow
 
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I have three "little mules". They are bad ass. Two 3k and one 6 which never really comes out to play.
The 6k is fixed in the 2:1 and doesn't have that much throw. The smaller ones are the bomb and well worth the coin. I love the ratcheting and release while undernload, very controlled but a bit slow
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I wish that you had posted sooner, I just bought a big one off ebay. I thought it could be multipurpose, pull truck out of mud and tree over.
 
20170703_225805.webp 20170703_225859.webp 20170703_225859.webp If that's not enough pulling power, then my diesel pickup has all the power I need in 4x4 low range.
Did some heavy pruning of large cottonwood lateral stems yesterday.
3/4" StableBraid redirected on block mounted on my trailer.
Nothing gets the momentum going better then this setup.
 
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