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Tired of handling logs or equipment on a forestry site without knowing what's going on?
Don't always know what happens when you pull? The Winchtronic winch is ideal for forestry (non-industrial) use and will be your ally in controlling your pulling, felling, digging, evacuation and handling of heavy equipment.
So what's the difference between a Winchtronic winch fitted with a force computer and a conventional trailer-mounted forestry winch?
Using the forestry winch
In this article on the forestry winch, we'll take a look at how someone who's into firewood or cleaning up rough patches can use their forestry winch. Whether it's for directional felling or skidding, we'll look at how to leave a plot of land clean with tools that don't stop at a simple shovel or rake in the bottom of your trailer.
In the case of cabled forestry winches such as those fitted to tractors, which products stand out and what are the mechanical pulling capacities in tonnes?
Are there different sizes and product categories of forestry winch to complement the traction winches fitted to tractors?
Electric forestry winches could become a benchmark in the future, just as John Deere has become one for tractors!
What are also the means of connection, such as the chains used to pull the trees, or even the complete ecosystem that allows you to go from a standing tree to a tree stored in its trailer in small pieces?
These are just some of the questions you're asking, and we're going to try and answer them!
An innovative electric forestry winch designed for versatility
As you can see from its rugged design or its shape, this is a strong, compact winch that can absorb the impact of falls when the tree falls.
The specific shape has been designed so that all the elements of the structure reinforce the part next to it. So once you've steered your tree, when it falls, the winch will drop about 1 metre and the tree will certainly fall on top of it. The aluminium frame is designed to absorb shocks and high tensile forces up to 4 tonnes.
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An innovative electric forestry winch designed for versatility
What manual equipment should you bring in a trailer to work properly, and what use is a shredder for cleaning up a site or recycling branches when you're working on Sundays? A shovel isn't always enough...
Logging in the forest is often conceived differently by the professional and the amateur forester. The dimensions, characteristics and electrical or mechanical power supply, the trailers, the hitch, the grapple or manual loading involve a variety of equipment and very different characteristics.
On the one hand, manual use, alone in the forest, with your forestry winch and chainsaw. Then you return home with your trailer full of logs or long timber loaded with a mini grapple or by hand.
Behind that, he uses his circular blade to cut it to different sizes using a firewood combiner, a drum-mounted circular or with a trestle, or any other equivalent forestry product. He can also use a splitter to make stakes that can be installed with an auger, or to make firelighters.
We should point out that for manual or mechanical use, the rest of the tree can also be recycled using a shredder to make chips and thus give value to the branches of the cut tree.
How do you work on a forestry site with a winch?
Traction is one aspect of safety on timber-related forestry sites.
The pull of a winch cannot be seen. It's often seen after the fact, like a finger in a splitter or chipper. Safety is an important consideration when you want to work with less equipment to make wood.
Felling a tree does not require high tensile forces, and mechanical or thermal transmission can nowadays be replaced by electricity. Winchtronic therefore offers solutions that favour tree traction for shorter, but just as effective, drum capacities. Winch pulling power doesn't have to be 10 tonnes to work. 4 tonnes is enough for a professional to secure a felling operation and make up for a wired forestry tractor.
And yes, forestry winches have evolved. However, a direct power output of less than a tonne is not enough pulling power, and can even be dangerous, even if you are told that the drum speed is high. Motor type and speed aren't everything! It's not the size that counts, but how you use it...
Winchtronic's approach is to provide a secure tool that allows you to keep control of your felling at all times, thanks to a 200 m radio remote control that can be installed on a chainsaw and a real-time calculator for secure real-time monitoring of your tree.
As we know, tension phenomena are exponential and we never see what happens when a hard point or a tilt causes tension to skyrocket during a pull.
Which cable families should I use?
Steel wire rope, wire rope, chained devices...
Who offers alternatives for powerful forestry winches with the right ton capacity? What is the best value for money?
A mechanical trend is emerging in forestry winches, including tractor-mounted hydraulic winches. These mechanical traction winches with a capacity of several tonnes now use textile cables.
Like the thermal forestry winch, which can be mounted on a hitch or fixed to a tree, textile has become a tool with some very interesting features. Easier to wind onto a drum, requiring less maintenance, it offers pulls and powers compatible with skidding activities for forestry winches.
Offering as much safety as steel wire rope, and even more, it can be used for unlimited forestry applications. Used in conjunction with a blade or on a trailer, as with Krpan and Uniforest winches for example, it can also be found on the Winchtronic forestry winch, which is one of the products of tomorrow to watch.
The opposite of a combustion engine, these 4T winches combine safety, power and control when pulling, thanks to their real-time load calculator. It's a professional winch with dimensions comparable to a cinder block, and a pulling force that's ideal for working in the woods.
It's easy to transport thanks to a wheeled transport box, so there's no need for a trailer or hitch to bring it to site. Its electric motor has a maximum traction power of 4T measured on the drum. Maximum speed with a return pulley is 7 metres/min max.
Forestry applications such as skidding are now possible in a lighter and totally safe way thanks to the force calculator and radio control.
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