The Cable Puller: The Best Tool Around
For a few weeks we’ve been wrestling with a large Pine which had been partially blown up and ended up hanging on to another tree, and it was on a steep slope within less than 10′ of our garage door, we bought a two ton cable puller and ended up destroying the puller, we had to buy a cable puller with 4 ton capacity , and this time it got the job done and our garage was still standing .
Actually cable pullers are heavy duty hand tools and can be used to do a lot of things, sometimes you even can use it in pace of ATV Winch to save money. The rated capacity of cable puller usually comes in from 1 ton to 4 ton(2200lbs to 8800lbs), the reach of the pullers is usually 6 feet to 12 feet, the higher the capacity, the shorter the reach, 1 ton puller can have 12′ reach while 4 ton puller will only have 6′ reach, but some extra heavy duty 4 ton ones can have 11′ or more. We usually call cable puller “Come Along“, by definition, a come along is a hand operated ratchet lever winch, so cable puller can be called come along, along with chain puller, chain hoist, hand winch, trailer winch. regular hand winch is used to pull boat out of water on the boat trailer or lower the boat into water, that’s why you see ‘boat trailer winch”, and hand winch has to be fixed onto something before use while you can just hook cable puller onto something heavy, non movable , such as a tree.
If you want to lifting or lowering something, you should choose cable pullers. You can pull or release vehicles onto and from trailer respectively, to pull or tear down trees, pull big rack or shed around your house, pull the stuck trees out of ditch , compare to electric powered winch, such as ATV winch , cable pullers are inexpensive handy tools. We made our point let’s get a real cable puller, the way to do it is to get it online, a few searches away there will be more than a few nice deals.