In the past 3-4 months we’ve been fighting with a big Balsam Fir which had been partially blown up and was only supported by another tree, and it was on a steep slope within less than 10 feet of our garage door, we tried a 2 ton puller on it and ended up destroying the puller, we had to get 4 ton cable pullers, 1 ton cable puller won’t cut it , and this time it did the job and our garage was still standing .
Cable pullers are nice multi purpose and heavy duty pulling hand tools that all work shop should keep a few in their work places. The rated capacity of cable puller usually comes in from 1 ton to 4 ton(2200lbs to 8800lbs), the reach of the pullers is usually 6 feet to 12 feet, the higher the capacity, the shorter the reach, 1 ton puller can have 12′ reach while 4 ton puller will only have 6′ reach, but some extra heavy duty 4 ton ones can have 11′ or more. People sometimes call these cable pullers “Come Along”, but come along refers to a lot of different hand tools besides cable pullers, such as chain hoists , chain puller , hand winch , and more, in a word, a come along is a hand operated ratchet lever winch. regular hand winch is used to pull boat out of water on the boat trailer or lower the boat into water, that’s why you see ‘boat trailer winch”, and hand winch has to be fixed onto something before use while you can just hook cable puller onto something heavy, non movable , such as a tree.
If you want to lift or lower something, you should choose cable pullers. To pull vehicles onto the trailer or release the vehicle off the trailer, hold or pull trees when you’re logging, pull big rack or shed around your house, pull the stuck vehicle out of somewhere , compare to electric powered winch, e.g. UTV Winch , cable pullers are inexpensive alternatives. Now we need to get the cable puller, you’ll see the search engine is the best friend, a few searches away there will be more than a few nice deals. To get a nice deal you need to make informed decision, the product review or BBS is your friend in your quest for low cost and high quality cable pullers.
Say you can use either hand puller or electric winch, the hand cable puller is the one if you love to live green, hand puller is totally clean when you use it, no waste, no emission, no nothing, and since there are only mechanical parts the hand puller is cheaper and cleaner to make.
