For a few weeks we’ve been fighting with a large Balsam Fir which had been partially blown up and ended up hanging on to another tree, and it was on a steep slope within less than ten feet of our garage door, we bought a 2-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 .
Cable pullers are great multi purpose and strong pulling tools that any handy man should have them around in their work places. The cable pullers usually have 1 ton to 4 ton pulling capacity, the lifting capacity is half of the pulling, and pull reach can be 6′ to 12′, 4 ton puller typically has 6′ reach but extra heavy duty ones may have more than 11′ reach. 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. Typically hand winch is used to pull boat out of water on the boat trailer or lower the boat into water, hence the name ‘boat trailer winch”, and hand winch has to be fixed onto something before use while you can just hook cable puller onto something immobile , such as a tree. Here comes chain hoist , a.k.a chain come along, we usually see chain hoists in big warehouse and heavy machinery operation.
The cable pullers are ideal for stretching, pulling, lifting and lowering. To pull vehicles onto the trailer or release the vehicle off the trailer, hold or pull trees when you’re logging, pull big rack or shed around your house, pull the stuck trees out of somewhere , compare to electric powered winch, such as UTV Winch , cable pullers are cheaper handy tools. Now we need to get the cable puller, you’ll see the search engine is the best friend, because you will be able to find very good deal.
It’s not a surprise, the hand cable and chain pullers are always there when you need them, while gasoline powered tools will be out of order from time to time, and we have to take pollution into consideration when we use gasoline tools. For our own good, I prefer hand tools over power tools
