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Fit the rope into the special groove and tighten the screw (Pos. 9). Now start spooling as described
under skidding operations.
In order to avoid possible rope damages keep winding up for a while after complete spooling of the
entire rope length, as described under section “Spooling of the wire rope”. Follow exactly these instruc-
tions in order to avoid troubles and assure smooth working with your winch.
6.4.1 Spooling off the wire rope
After you have correctly installed the winch, you can start spooling the rope off. In order to ensure
compliance of your power voltage to the requirements, first switch the tractor rear lights on.
• Press the white push-button (2) Fig. 7 to undo the safety brake.
• Press the black push-button (1) Fig. 7 to engage the brake and allow the rope to spool off. If no
spooling off occurs at this stage, you are probably missing suffient operating pressure in your system.
Remember that your driveline must be engaged for the hydraulic pump to actively power the spooling
system.
• Press the white push-button again and pull the wire rope. If the wire rope is tangled or badly woun-
ded on the drum, first undo 3-4 rope winds and then wind tightly and evenly back onto the drum to
the desired length.
• Should timber hook up on an obstacle (tree trunks, branches or roots) down the skidding route and
skidding be discontinued due to insufficient pullforce to bypass the obstacle, a large pressure will build
up into the rope leading to a risk of backlash during spooling off. In this case, you need to operate the
white push-button (1) by quickly tipping on it several times.
6.4.2 Checking the rope quality
• Stricly use brand new ropes.
• Make sure to use ropes of approved quality, suitable strength and compliant to the specifications on
the identification label.
• Do not use longer ropes than instructed in the technical specifications of this manual.
6.4.3 Spooling the wire rope
Completely spool the rope making sure to wind tightly and evenly onto the drum and avoiding both
over-winding and underwinding. Correct winding is accomplished by:
• Simply pulling the load
• Firmly attach one end of the rope to a firm stable anchor-point suitable to withstand the pull force
while the rope starts spooling onto the drum and the tractor with the winch starts pulling towards the
anchored rope end.
It may be convenient to carry out this operation either on a slight gradient with the idled tractor fa-
cing uphill or alternatively with braked tractor.
Wind the rope tightly and evenly onto the drum. Before putting your winch to
work, spool the rope nearly completely off (just leave 3-4 winds on the drum)
and then respool it again under load on the free end! Check the rope over for
any signs of damage, flattening, broken wires, wear and corrosion.
