The Egyptian way still works!

[mtt.tr]

I started using capstans with a drill adapter I made




This made me damn lazy, we'd pilling loads of brash onto a tarpaulin then drag it with the winch. Amazing what 11mm static rope will load to, doubled up I was pulling out bloody big bits of timber.


But those tirfors are brilliant

 

[indy4x]

Just need to sort out some backlash now. I thought it was the nut or thread on the cross slide but it seems to be the end float where it enters the taper turner. I am sure it won't take too long to fix.

Had the same issue with my M300, gib in the taper attachment was AWOL

 

[arther dailey]

Tirfors are very safe and very controlled - you can feel what is going on. This is the baby one rated to 300kg lifting. My biggest one is rated to 3500kg lift. The firebrigade use them for lifting stuff off people when they are trapped.
They lift and lower in the same way. They are rather slow however

slow n steady wins the race,safely.

 

[bourbon]

Tirfors, Thanks guys. Another bit of kit that I can see would be very useful, But I don't need

 

[8ob]

Tirfors, Thanks guys. Another bit of kit that I can see would be very useful, But I don't need

Very versatile bit of kit, can also be used in the upright position with a snatch block attached to a beam for lifting.

Bob

 

[fizzy]

To give people an example of just how powerful Tirfors are I once used the baby 300kg one to winch an American stretched limo up a very steep drive. We used a Nissan bluebird as an anchor point. In gear and proper bricks as chocks and it was pulling the bluebird up over the bricks. I was astonished. Imagine what the 3500kg one could do

 

[Agroshield]

To give people an example of just how powerful Tirfors are...

Could the Tirfor marketing department just clarify/confirm for any potential customers reading this that the machine only works with their own special rope (i.e. no-one should think you can poke any old bit of wire cable into one). Thanks.

What I want is a Tirfor that works with dyneema. It could use friction hitches instead of claws to grip the rope, but the auto-tending would be difficult, as would reverse.

 

[fizzy]

Could the Tirfor marketing department just clarify/confirm for any potential customers reading this that the machine only works with their own special rope (i.e. no-one should think you can poke any old bit of wire cable into one). Thanks.

What I want is a Tirfor that works with dyneema. It could use friction hitches instead of claws to grip the rope, but the auto-tending would be difficult, as would reverse.

Now that would be nice!!!
Plenty of Chinese wire rope clones around these days of course.
Funnily enough many years ago I designed a portable winch to pull through dyneema or similar. Didn't have the skills or machinery to build one then - maybe I will give it a go now!

 

[fizzy]

I started using capstans with a drill adapter I made
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This made me damn lazy, we'd pilling loads of brash onto a tarpaulin then drag it with the winch. Amazing what 11mm static rope will load to, doubled up I was pulling out bloody big bits of timber.


But those tirfors are brilliant

That will be much faster though! I do like capstans!

 

[mtt.tr]

That will be much faster though! I do like capstans!

Laziness breads innovation

 

[Mikes]

Moving my 5000kg H20.
An absolute monster. My baby Tirfor was a huge help. The rollers are a fair bView attachment 373245it bigger than scaffolding poles. Saved them out of a skip years ago.
1 hour and we moved her about 70 feet.
Surprising how steerable rollers can be when you get the hang of it.

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Been looking for a 'green with envy' emoji but can't find one!

 

[Morris]

A lot smaller job but that's how I moved my Colchester Bantam into position on my own ( I'm no Arnie, more Where's Wally). Easy to move sideways with a pinch bar as well.

 

[8ob]

Been looking for a 'green with envy' emoji but can't find one!

Prezzy for you

 

[fizzy]

Been looking for a 'green with envy' emoji but can't find one!

If I had seen it before buying I would have walked away. No idea how huge it was.
It didn't sound very good when I powered it up and the cross slide was wobbling all over the place. Thought it was a scrapper.
I put new belts on it and swapped the phases around. Sounds lovely now so smooth.
After only 30 mins of fiddling with the cross slide it is far better - just a bit of backlash from the taper turner to sort out. No bed wear at all - not surprising considering the size of it - 20" wide
Originally it was bought by Bristol Siddeley and then they were taken over by Rolls Royce so it has their famous badge on it. Was in the toolroom in Coventry where they worked on the Pegasus and Olympus engines amongst others.
Oil changes next - hylomar blue on the headstock cover. Fit a DRO and she should be ready.

 

[nickk]

Wide bed....tool room quality then ,like a DSG.

 

[fizzy]

Wide bed....tool room quality then ,like a DSG.

I love DSGs as well. Almost bought one a while ago.
I would say the H20 beats them - just! It really is the pinnacle of manual lathe building.
One day I will have a DSG as well - then we shall see.
A mate of mine is a Holbrook fanatic and has several older ones. He has had most of the top American lathes and reckons Holbrook are better. He has recently acquired an old American Hendy and is most impress though.
I also fancy a foreign lathe - nearly bought one a few years ago but it went for good money

Ikegai A-20 Precision Lathe - Japan

Manufactured by the Ikegai Iron Works, Ltd. (a lathe maker since 1889) at 1, 4 Chome, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo in Japan), the Ikegai A-20 and DA63 and DA46 lathes were toolroom-class machines of very high quality

www.lathes.co.uk

Interesting to see that the A20 - the same capacity as the Holbrook - has a bed 16" wide v 20" on the Holbrook. And weighs about 1000kg less. Still a lovely machine though!

 

[nickk]

I once (1995 ish),viewed a large DSG in deepest Cardiganshire,was in a shed in a back garden ,don’t know how he got it there,you’d have to plate the garden,ground was squidgy in summer.

 

[nickk]

Do you remember the SOUTH WALES FREE ADS? I called it the yellow paper,had a lot of stuff from there.

 

[fizzy]

Do you remember the SOUTH WALES FREE ADS? I called it the yellow paper,had a lot of stuff from there.

Yes it was brilliant!

 

[8ob]

Had to get this stump out, only had a small excavator on this particular job, tirfor anchored to the base of a large adj tree ripped the thing out.