VERSATILE APPLICATIONS OF THE WINCHES

There are many possible applications for rope winches. They move loads by pulling horizontally or vertically by winding a rope onto a driven rope drum. Winches are used in industry, construction, transport, forestry, off-road, marine, aviation and rescue. Cranes of all kinds do not work without a suitable motor winch. Towing services use winches to pull vehicles that are no longer roadworthy onto their tow trucks or trailers. Recovery vehicles used by recovery services, the fire brigade or the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) need winches to do their work. Forestry work can hardly be done without a forestry winch. Furthermore, winches are used on cars, e.g. jeeps or SUVs. Winches are simply versatile pulling and lifting tools.

ROPE WINCHES AT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT

The fire department mainly uses motor winches. They need them on their recovery vehicles, for example, to recover crashed vehicles in the event of accidents or disasters. They often use the wire rope winches to remove blocking material. High tractive forces provided by electric or hydraulic winches are definitely required by the fire department.

WINCHES FOR THE TOW TRUCK AND HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES

Towing services also use winches very often, e.g. to be able to transport defective or crashed vehicles to the workshop. With the winch for tow trucks (electrically or hydraulically operated), unroadworthy vehicles are loaded onto the towing vehicle or the tow truck. Thus, the necessary removal can be carried out quickly and, above all, safely.

WINCHES IN THE FORESTRY INDUSTRY

In forestry work, trees have to be moved regularly, i.e. felled trees have to be pulled to certain positions in order to be able to place or stack the trunk accordingly with a crane. This is where the forestry winches are used. Forestry rope winches are often also mounted on the Unimog or tractor, which has a certain stability.

WINCHES IN THE OFFROAD SECTOR

Compact electric winches dominate the off-road sector. In this sector, they are mostly used to pull a stuck off-road vehicle, Unimog or ATV or quad back onto the road.

BOAT WINCHES

In the marine sector, winches are mainly used on boat trailers. On the one hand, the trailers are used for transport and, on the other hand, for lowering the boats into the water. For small objects, manual winches are often used, as these winches do not require any energy other than muscle power. For heavier vessels, on the other hand, electric winches are used. These can  be trailer winches to pull large trailers or even caravans.

TRACTIVE FORCES OF THE WINCHES

We offer winches with pulling forces from 0.5 to 22.6 tons. The required force is always dependent on the respective area of application. If you only want to pull a small boat onto the trailer, a small, possibly also manual winch with a pulling load of 0.5 tons is well sufficient. To pull defective cars onto a truck, we recommend winches in the 3 - 4 ton pull range. For truck salvage or in the area of the fire department or the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), winches with 20 tons or more may well be necessary.