Hawse fairlead on steel line
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Hawse fairlead on steel line
My synthetic rope is fairly beaten up, especially the first 10 feet. I have new steel line that my winch came with. But the roller fairlead sticks so far out it gets hammered and won’t roll. So looking at work I can get some steel plate basically whatever thickness I want, we’ve got scraps from 1/4, 3/8,1/2, and 7/8. I was thinking 3/8 and then cover it with 1/4-3/8 plastic that we got kicking around as a replaceable wear piece. Any thoughts on this ? Am I wasting my time? It’s free for me and I’ve got spare time and all the stuff to do it.
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Re: Hawse fairlead on steel line
They're normally just steel hawse fairleads for steel cable. The cable will just eat the plastic I believe. Do you have access to hardened stuff? AR-whatever (AR500 would be great) or T1 are common, or anyone there that will weld some hardface on it for you?
You can just buy one too I guess. I think they're cheap. Not sure how common they are with the advent of synthetic rope.
The other option is the roller fairlead I have. It's low profile, doesnt stick out much more than a hawse. I'd have to go through my orders to see who made it.
You can just buy one too I guess. I think they're cheap. Not sure how common they are with the advent of synthetic rope.
The other option is the roller fairlead I have. It's low profile, doesnt stick out much more than a hawse. I'd have to go through my orders to see who made it.
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Re: Hawse fairlead on steel line
Do you have a decent pic of the low profile roller setup, might be able to build something similar as well
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Re: Hawse fairlead on steel line
Yeah, that's the one. I can get a pic of it mounted if you want. It hardly sticks out though.
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Re: Hawse fairlead on steel line
I’m leaning towards cutting my synthetic line back 10 feet and resplicing it. It’s just the first but that’s really beaten up. I don’t want to spend any money on this if I don’t have to. Just bought property and trying to build a house. And I’d still like to build another rig but this winch may not work for it.