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Rick.Mopar

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I am thinking of putting a floor mounted winch in my garage, my drive has a slight grade to it and at my old age I cannot push cars up it any longer.

Looking for ideas and pictures. I think I want to hammer drill a set of RED HEAD lag bolts into the concrete, I am having issues finding a good winch that is not ATV mounted.

Please help, thanks!

Rick
 
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How about a floor pot anchor?

And one of these..

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043OV0IA/?tag=atomicindus08-20
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I've got an older version of this Warn 110V winch, and I use it a lot for pulling cars into the shop. In my case, I have a metal building and simply chain the winch to one of the metal frame members. It's VERY handy.

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Pot anchor is the "ultimate" solution and that sure looks like a nice portable winch, but both are kind of $$$ especially for light vehicles (pop up camper or single axle trailer and boat).

Here is my plan for this spring.

Drill/chisel a hole in the floor of the garage a couple inches in front of the back wall. The needs to be big enough to easily drop in the head of a 1/2" bolt. It should go all the way through the floor. Use a shop vac and get all of the debris out of the hole. You might even want to loosen a bit of the dirt under the floor and **** it out also.

Get a 1/2" thread "lifting eye" (NOT an eye bolt ! A lifting eye is forged, one piece). Also a couple of 1/2" "coupling nuts" and a couple of 1/2" bolts. (If you are into over kill, make them all stainless, except for the lifting eye). You want a bolt sticking out of the bottom of the coupling nut and the lifting eye sticking out of the top. You ca put 2 coupling nuts together with a cut off bolt in between for added length.

Mix up some "anchoring cement" (or special epoxy designed for this job), fill the hole and place the bolt and coupling nuts down into the wet cement until the top of the coupling but is flush with the top of the anchoring cement and floor. Let it harden for 24 hours. If you were careful setting this, you should be able to remove the lifting eye so you don't trip over it.

Use an anchor shackle to attach a pulley to the lifting eye. Attach your rope/cable to the vehicle, around the pulley,
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back out the front of the garage, under the vehicle and attach it to a garden tractor/tow vehicle.

Seems corny, but it is cheap. I plan on using double braided nylon rope.
 

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LB-1911

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Fellas and Fellerettes

I am thinking of putting a floor mounted winch in my garage, my drive has a slight grade to it and at my old age I cannot push cars up it any longer.

Looking for ideas and pictures. I think I want to hammer drill a set of RED HEAD lag bolts into the concrete, I am having issues finding a good winch that is not ATV mounted.

Please help, thanks!

Rick

Two options w/ pictures @

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3614421&postcount=26
or
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=844498&postcount=10


https://www.google.com/#q=floor+mounted+winch+++garage+journal+site:www.garagejournal.com

Good Luck
 

Bondo

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Ayuh,..... I bought one of these a few years ago,...
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They're outa production now, but Lewis Winch still makes the chainsaw conversion unit, but at alot more money,....
 

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Oldwizard's deep epoxied anchor sounds like it is meant for dragging an inoperative sherman tank with stuck treads into the shop, except for the pulley and rope part.

This one really cracked me up, since he has a pulling pot, a heavy chain, what appears to be at least a 12000# winch with a 2" square hitch mount, and it is held together with a Craftsman screwdriver stuck through the hitch mount and the chain.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=844498&postcount=10

For a rolling load being pulled horizontally, even up a small incline, a single 3/8" or 1/2" bolt, with a 2"~3" long/deep concrete anchor is more than adequate to chain your winch or come-along to.

I stuck one in the floor in the back of my shop before I built my toolbox bench over the top of it, and have used it a half-dozen times by hooking a chain to the bolt and to the winch plate (I have a small, 2000# 12v winch that came from HF), and have dragged cars, trucks, tractors and even dead loads like a loaded pallet of cinder block into the shop with it.
 
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ishiboo

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A lifting eye and an eye bolt are the same thing

Yeah... I get what he's getting at though, a forge machinery eye bolt.

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Just a heads up, load-rated eye bolts are only rated for that load in the same axis as the bolt - straight up/down. There is a substantial reduction for a 90 degree pull.
 

HMCFab9

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In for info also as I am about to do the same thing.
Has anyone ever figured out exactly how much winch is needed to pull a vehicle in?
I have a 5 degree slope in my driveway & pulling a 5,000Lb vehicle should only need 500 pounds of pull to get it in according to a geometry wizard friend. Does that sound right?
 

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We use a pullzall for winching into the trailer and it works awesome! We retrofitted with 50' of synthetic rope. We have the a/c version we run off generator or shore power. Works like a champ for that and many other tasks.
 
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ive got a set up that i take from my garage to my trailer. ill have to get a picture of it. dont think ive ever taken one. i use a trailer hitch mount bolted to the floor and have the winch mounted on a harbor freight vise mount that fits into the hitch.

red heads are the ticket. simple and works
 

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ive got a set up that i take from my garage to my trailer. ill have to get a picture of it. dont think ive ever taken one. i use a trailer hitch mount bolted to the floor and have the winch mounted on a harbor freight vise mount that fits into the hitch.

red heads are the ticket. simple and works

Something similar to below?

Don't overthink it. Mine is a receiver tube welded to a piece of channel. It was intended to be bolted to the floor with four 1/2" wedge anchors but I was too lazy to drill the other two holes so it's only got two holding it in. The anchors were 6" long so they sit in the floor about 4-5".

The 3000lb winch was $99 and I welded a piece of 2" square 1/4" wall tube to the bottom of it with a hole for the receiver pin.

I've never had an issue hauling any cars into the shop with it and there's a 6" lip right at the door. If it ever fails to pull anything up that lip I'll ****** block it. This winch hauls dead cars up onto my trailer with no trouble as well.

This is by far one of the best things I've ever done as far as shop gear - pushing dead cars is the worst thing ever, and since this is removable I can use it on the trailer and on the truck receiver to pull cars out of the shop. I have enough tow ropes that I can pull a car from the street into the shop, and it pulls them through snowbanks and ice so I don't even have to shovel very much in winter. With a snatchblock in the ceiling I can use it to lift stuff and it's great for moving machinery around (just used it to pull a 2500lb mill and 2000lb lathe into the shop).

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If you want to avoid chopping up your floor, you can put an anchor timber across the bottom. outside of you back wall.
On the install I saw he used a long shank eye bolt through the wall and into a 2x6 that spaned 5 or 6 studs.
It had a big washer made from a piece of 3 inch channel.
A peice of chain about 4 foot long got a hook out from under the bench against that wall for hooking onto and it could just be kicked back under the bench when not being used.
 

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terrible pic but ive got chit piled everywhere.
on the vise mount, i only had to elongate the 2 rear holes. front holes bolted right up.

ive pulled it in about once a week for a year and have not charged the battery yet. hardly any load pulling in and out, but my ground is fairly flat. will take more juice the more incline (load) you have.
 

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Rick.Mopar

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Stage 20, so you bolted in a reciever hitch and welded on to a receiving square bar? Looks good I like it, I have found most ATV winches have blind captive bolts. I like your set up.
 

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I use an old Powerwinch boat winch. It's 12v and I always seem to have an extra battery around so it works both in the garage and in the car hauler when necessary. It was given to me about 20 years ago my my uncle and it has done a good job.

To pull a vehicle/camper into the garage, I have drilled a 1/2" hole through the concrete floor, mine is approximately 8" thick in this area. I counter sunk the hole about an inch and install a threaded 1/2" bolt, no anchor just friction to hold things into place, I remove the bolt when done with the pull. Its worked well for 7 years.
 
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