Unusual Winch (Photo)

athawk11 · Post by **athawk11** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:09 am

This is attached to the front of a recently acquired Willys. I know this is a Military Willys site, and I know this doesn't belong on a Willys, but I thought someone might recognize this as belonging to some other Military vehicle. This is PTO driven. There is a spocket on the PTO shaft just below the bumper. Any ideas what this is?

Bretto · Post by **Bretto** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:59 am

The sprocket is a back up so you can hook it up to your bicycle.
I don't know what is is, I'm sure someone here will though.

Post by **wesk** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:05 am

Are you saying the PTO drive shaft is not physically connected to the winch but instead ends at the sprocket below the bumper and then a chain must be used to connect the driven end of the PTO shaft to the sprocket on the winch?

As soon as you can clean off the housing tell us what ID markings are on it.

donthedickens · Post by **donthedickens** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:13 am

After looking at your picture for the 10th time,, I can just barly see the sprocket under the bumper in front.

I don't know the brand, but this looks like a bed mount winch someone moved to the front of the jeep.

Here are a few scans I just added to my Photobucket account of a Koenig bed mount winch, and three pages of instructions of a Ramsey bed mount winch.

I'd like to see some more pictures of your winch and any data plate info.

http://s577.photobucket.com/albums/ss21 ... d%20mount/

Post by **wesk** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:32 am

Looking at Don's photos the Koenig looks a wee bit similar but not quite the same winch. The winch above has that large oil reservoir up high.

athawk11 · Post by **athawk11** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:33 pm

I removed the winch in an attempt to find some markings. There aren't many. For the most part, they appear to be part numbers.

Here are some additional photos after removal...

Post by **wesk** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:40 pm

That's a home made winch. Thats a 90 degree gear box that was originally driven by the shaft that now goes through the center of the winch drum and the sprocket was the driven side for a grain elevator or some other slow turning driven implement. The drum may be from almost anything. Not bad backyard engineering and probably works fairly well. Put some photos of that up on a tractor or farm implement web site and someone will probably place the make and model of the drive gearbox.

athawk11 · Post by **athawk11** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:07 pm

Wes,
I have to say, the stuff you know is mind boggling. Thanks for the feedback. I will track down a tractor forum to see what they have to say.

Thanks again,

Tim

Post by **wesk** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:22 pm

Not so much. I'm 65 years young and have kept my eyes and ears open and limited my mouth for most of those years. I raced cars and worked in a garage through my teens and continued racing through the late 70's. I spent 22 years on aircraft in the military and have run my own aircraft maintenance shop as a civilian since 1992. And of course I have been into jeeps since my first one in 1972. The farm background comes from the wifes love of horses!

donthedickens · Post by **donthedickens** » Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:35 am

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Wes,
I have to say, the stuff you know is mind boggling. Thanks for the feedback. I will track down a tractor forum to see what they have to say.

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