New car trailer and winch
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:24 am
Finally finished restoring my car trailer.... that used to be a trailer house. 
And I happened across a warn M8274 "fastest reel speed winch" in the junkyard. Bought it, and now im restoring it to go on the trailer for disabled cars.... just because I have a gut feeling im going to be rescuing alex on more than a few occasions when his 70 year old vw spins a bearing or just doesn't start. 
And conveniently enough, somebody had 4 trojan golf cart batteries on craigslist for 125 for all 4. But I talked em down to 100 even. These go for 145 apiece new. And these are only a year old, and have been cycled all the time.
So.... at about 480 a/hrs I could winch all day. Or atleast until my motor burned up.
The trailer is thankfully 22ft long..... barely long enough for a ae86 and FC
pics:
only pic I have of it finished is it hauling some scrap to the junkyard
And I happened across a warn M8274 "fastest reel speed winch" in the junkyard. Bought it, and now im restoring it to go on the trailer for disabled cars.... just because I have a gut feeling im going to be rescuing alex on more than a few occasions when his 70 year old vw spins a bearing or just doesn't start. And conveniently enough, somebody had 4 trojan golf cart batteries on craigslist for 125 for all 4. But I talked em down to 100 even. These go for 145 apiece new. And these are only a year old, and have been cycled all the time.
So.... at about 480 a/hrs I could winch all day. Or atleast until my motor burned up.
The trailer is thankfully 22ft long..... barely long enough for a ae86 and FC
pics:
only pic I have of it finished is it hauling some scrap to the junkyard