Fordson Major with winch, Fotheringham Estate
Photograph courtesy of Leslie Phillip, Perth, thought to be showing a Fordson Major tractor with a Cook Winch on Fotheringham Estate, Forfar.
Can anyone confirm? Note the well worn fair lead rollers! See PDF for another view.
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This is an ex-US Army front mounted recovery winch. It is either a 3 ton Garwood or I suspect a 5 ton capacity Tulsa winch. Both of US manufacture.
The gear ratios on these winches were 32:1. In my first job we fitted these winches to ex-army Canadian Chevrolet 4x4 trucks rigged as cranes.
The winches were better suited to the trucks as the power take-off worked through the main gearbox giving 4 gears and a very handy reverse; this reverse allowed you to release a big log winched in when you wished to move forward.
With a Fordson Major there was a single pto and no reverse.
I remember an Oliver 80 equipped with a 3 ton Garwood that had winched a massive larch log out of a den in Glen Gairn, the driver had chained the front axle to a stump and finding himself truly locked, resorted to cutting the winch rope with an axe!
The winches were better Comment left on 18 April 2015 at 15:33 by Ian Cameron, mobile fitter at Dunkeld in the 1960's
The gear ratios on these winches were 32:1. In my first job we fitted these winches to ex-army Canadian Chevrolet 4x4 trucks rigged as cranes.
The winches were better suited to the trucks as the power take-off worked through the main gearbox giving 4 gears and a very handy reverse; this reverse allowed you to release a big log winched in when you wished to move forward.
With a Fordson Major there was a single pto and no reverse.
I remember an Oliver 80 equipped with a 3 ton Garwood that had winched a massive larch log out of a den in Glen Gairn, the driver had chained the front axle to a stump and finding himself truly locked, resorted to cutting the winch rope with an axe!
The winches were better Comment left on 18 April 2015 at 15:33 by Ian Cameron, mobile fitter at Dunkeld in the 1960's
Lour estate had this outfit on loan from Fotheringham estate around 1973 to pull a large windblown beech tree out off a den, the old winch proved more than capable for the task.
Comment left on 26 August 2021 at 12:04 by leslie phillip
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The Winch is probably from an ex Army Lorry, it looks like it is still mounted on part of the Chassis.
The Drum is offset because the input Shaft had to be lined up with the Power take off Shaft.
Comment left on 17 April 2015 at 21:24 by Jimmy Thain