Homemade winch: schematic and detailed description

The winch is one of the most necessary tools that every off-road conqueror must have. After all, without this mechanism to pull out of the ditch or ford, your car will be almost impossible. Some motorists buy ready-made winches and put them on power bumpers, while others make them with their own hands. And if you are in doubt about choosing the right tool, you can try to make it yourself. This will help you with our today's article.

What can be a self-made winch?

It should be noted that devices of this kind are divided into several categories depending on the type of their design. So, an automotive home-made winch can be:

• manual;
• Electric;
• Hydraulic.

However, despite the different design, all three types of devices have the same operating principle. It consists in the following: a steel cable is wound on a drum, which in turn rotates through the reducer of the engine or through the efforts of one's own hands. To understand this in more detail, consider each of these types separately.

Winches with electric drive

Often, the work of these tools involved an automobile starter or a cargo generator. Another such self-made winch can work on a separately installed electric motor. In other cases, motorists alter the starter and generator to work in the mode of the motor.

However whatever origin this quinoa might be, it must necessarily have a high torque, so that the mechanism could pull a 2-ton huge jeep out of the ditch. And since the main energy for work is absorbed from the battery, motorists install batteries with a higher capacity. However, anyway, an electric motor, no matter how powerful it is, should not drain the battery so much.

Hydraulic devices

The design of such winches is more complicated than that of electrical analogs. Typically, hydraulic tools are driven by an oil pump. Despite their large size, winches of this type have great advantages - they provide the highest tractive effort, taking away the minimum power of the on-board network from the car. In addition to SUVs, such self-made winches are mounted on a tractor or a motor-block.

Handheld devices

These tools are manufactured in the same way as all the others. However, the role of the engine is not performed by a starter or an oil pump, all efforts are made manually, that is, by the efforts of a person. The power of such a device depends directly on the physical strength of the operator and the total length of the lever. Therefore, the self - made hand winch is equipped with a fairly long lever. This creates maximum traction efforts.

How to make?

A drum with a rope is the key knot from which any self-made winch consists. The drawings of this device must be as accurate as possible so that the mechanism works correctly and reliably. Well, if you have such a drum in the ready state, it's much harder to make it yourself.

How to make a drum on its own? To do this, take a piece of pipe with thick walls, and with electrodes and a welding machine attach a cheek to it with a thickness of 5 millimeters. One of the last details is to attach the driven gear. The tube itself is supplied with seating for bearings.

You can make a winch for the winch and in another way. To do this, you need to have several hubs from some "Zhiguli" or "Volga". In them, it is necessary to pierce the place for welding and attach the halves to the mandrel of the desired diameter in order to achieve alignment of all the parts.

Reducer is best to take with a large gear ratio (worm type). The main advantage of such a mechanism is that there is no need to create a drum brake. Most often motorists purchase a reducer from trolleybus doors - it's easiest to mount on the site.

If you decide to make a self-made winch driven by a starter, it's best to take a model with a planetary gearbox. So once supplied the early Zhigulevskie motors.

To create a mechanism with a starter, the first thing to do is to prepare a platform from a metal sheet. To her, you need to weld the seats, which then will be mounted shaft of the drum. After this, the gearbox is installed with the primary shaft facing upwards.

To the reducer from above is mounted a self-made adapter. It is necessary for us to install a starter. A pinion with a certain tooth module is mounted on the primary shaft. After the starter is finally attached to the structure. The final stage is posting. Everything, now such The winch can be put on the car.

How to install a self-made winch from a starter to an SUV?

The first step is to determine the exact location for the equipment. It is best to secure the winch to the center of the bumper, and on its lower part. If this is an imported SUV with a plastic bumper, then, naturally, it will not withstand loads of 2-2.5 tons, and it will simply come off the bodywork. Therefore, instead of plastic put a strong, steel (power) impactor.

Further on the power bumper it is necessary to make a platform of metal plates for the winch. The thickness of the steel sheet should be at least 0.5 centimeters. Then holes are marked here and drilled with an electric drill.

Now the metal pad is ready for installation on the bumper. It is worth noting that the winch is mounted here at the very last stage. First, the plate is attached to the bumper, and then a traction mechanism is installed to it. If this is an electrical device, the control panel is additionally connected to the vehicle's on-board network. Connection with it occurs according to the following scheme - "plus" is connected with the positive terminal of the battery, and "minus", respectively, with a negative. All, at this stage, the installation of the winch on the SUV can be considered complete.

What else is useful for this device?

One of the main features of self-made mechanisms of this kind is the possibility of their use not for their intended purpose. This means that the self-made winch on the UAZ can at any time move heavy loads on the backyard. For this, it is not even necessary to remove it from the bumper (but in this case it is necessary to adjust the car close to the location of the cargo, which is not always possible to do). Also, a homemade device can help you with uprooting old trees, stumps or transporting logs. Sometimes such a winch is used to move pallets with building materials.

Nuances

However, this tool has its limitations. Homemade winches are not entirely safe, and therefore are not suitable for lifting loads, since they do not have a stopper. However, once you have made this tool, you will not be afraid that your iron friend will get stuck on impassability. At any time, the self-made winch will be able to pull the SUV out of the ditch, no matter how deep it may be.