railroad winch?
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For some reason i can't open that link, but is that for the PTO winch off of a 10 ton military truck? If it is i thought about it too, but just a wee bit on the big side . .. 
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Moving Trains?
come on guys,there is no way possible that a truck mounted whinch will move a train,Not even just a locomotive,unles MAYBE the loco is on a down hill grade,I work for the railroad and these engines weigh 410,000 pounds.As for the truck winches i looked at one of our new trucks and it has a warn 16,500 on it and it has dual batteries but i'm not sure if the winch is running on 12 or 24 volts.
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i would think you could pull a train car with a 20,000 winch and a large truck either a crew cab f350 with a loaded utility box or an f600 or something, a person can push a 6000 pound truck. i dont know if my winch could pull a train but i would like to try
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how much do you think it would take to move a 60,000 pound box car, i would say about 10 percent of the weight, or 6000 pounds of force, your truck weighs 6000 pounds and one person can push it and a person cannot push with 6000 pounds of force maybe 300, yea its not easy to push but you can do it. remember we are talking a rolling load not lifting it, the problem is it would probably drag the truck
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On a hard, flat surface the effective weight of something on wheels is about 5% of it's total weight. That means a 10,000 lb winch could pull 200,000 lbs of dead weight (if it's flat on wheels).
I checked out the winch and it's a no-go. It's a 24 volt electric and it would cost me more to convert my truck to 24 volts than it would to jut buy another winch.
And that dual battery setup is for double amperage at 12 volts, not to run 24 v.
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I checked out the winch and it's a no-go. It's a 24 volt electric and it would cost me more to convert my truck to 24 volts than it would to jut buy another winch.
And that dual battery setup is for double amperage at 12 volts, not to run 24 v.
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Hood the rear of the truck to something like a reciever hitch. Lock down the brakes on the train car, start pulling like hell, release the brakes on the train car. Once it starts rolling, what do you do besides RUUUN . . .
Last edited by rlh; Feb 3, 2004 at 12:47 AM.