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I'm looking for a second hand chain winch, about 1000kg. My barn/workshop is built into a hillside, the workshop is above the barn. There is access to the workshop at one end, but its narrow and there's 5 steps to climb, so not ideal for heavy items.
I have a hatch in the workshop floor, about 1.1m square into the barn below. Above the hatch there is beam with two beam trolleys on it, a 1 tonne and a 2 tonne. I have manual chain winches on both with similar SWL respectively. I usually use the small winch to lift the plate in the floor and the bigger one for the lift.
Most of the stuff I lift is between 200 and 600kg, occasionally a tad more. The lift height in total is about 6m from barn floor to base of the winch. I probably use the winch in the workshop about 20 times a year to move within the workshop, and through the hatch 10 times, but the frequency may increase a bit once if I cease to be a wage slave.
Problems I have are that manual chain hoist's chain gets in the way and damages freshly painted stuff. Both spare lifting chain and the operating chain. I believe the lifting chains fits in the bag so avoids this issue? There is also the convenience side of it, less effort, chain not catching/jamming etc.
There's a few second hand chain hoists locally, usually 110v. I have a transformer somewhere, and 3 phase. I've never had any dealings with electric winches of any type so not sure what is good or bad and approx cost.
Anybody got any experience of these?
Cheers
Andy
I have a hatch in the workshop floor, about 1.1m square into the barn below. Above the hatch there is beam with two beam trolleys on it, a 1 tonne and a 2 tonne. I have manual chain winches on both with similar SWL respectively. I usually use the small winch to lift the plate in the floor and the bigger one for the lift.
Most of the stuff I lift is between 200 and 600kg, occasionally a tad more. The lift height in total is about 6m from barn floor to base of the winch. I probably use the winch in the workshop about 20 times a year to move within the workshop, and through the hatch 10 times, but the frequency may increase a bit once if I cease to be a wage slave.
Problems I have are that manual chain hoist's chain gets in the way and damages freshly painted stuff. Both spare lifting chain and the operating chain. I believe the lifting chains fits in the bag so avoids this issue? There is also the convenience side of it, less effort, chain not catching/jamming etc.
There's a few second hand chain hoists locally, usually 110v. I have a transformer somewhere, and 3 phase. I've never had any dealings with electric winches of any type so not sure what is good or bad and approx cost.
Anybody got any experience of these?
Cheers
Andy