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We got a tree stump on our lawn , its diameter is about a bit greater than 4 feet , it had annoyed us for a few months , we’ve tried some power tools on it but nothing can go through it, lately we bought cable puller with 4 ton capacity , together with my truck pulled the stump out without major effort!

Actually hand cable pullers are heavy duty pulling tools and can be used to do a lot of things, sometimes you even can use it in pace of ATV Winch to save money. 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. We usually call cable puller “Come Along”, by definition, a come along is a hand operated ratchet lever winch, so cable puller can be called come along, along with chain hoists , hand winch, trailer winch. Typically 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 immobile , such as a tree.

If you want to lift or lower something, you should choose cable pullers. You can pull or release vehicles onto and from trailer respectively, hold or drag trees when you’re logging, pull big rack or shed around your house, pull the stuck trees out of ditch , compare to electric powered winch, such as ATV Winches , cable pullers are cheaper handy tools. 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. In order to make sure you get the best deal, you should refer to online forum for advise on the very product you’re going to buy.

If you can choose, you should use hand puller instead of electric one, the only power source for hand puller is human, and the manufacturing process for hand puller is cleaner as well.

Now we’re going green at full steam, how are old school tools doing? Take a look at chain hoists, blocks and cable pullers.

There was a tree stump on our lawn , its diameter is about a little bit greater than 4 feet , it had bothered us for a few months , we’ve tried chainsaw on it but nothing can go through it, lately we bought cable pullers with 4 ton capacity , together with my truck pulled the stump out like a decayed molar in a few minutes!

Actually cable pullers are heavy duty lifting tools and can be used to do a lot of things, sometimes you even can use it in pace of ATV Winch to save money. 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 pullers , snatch block, and more, in a word, a come along is a hand operated ratchet lever winch. The difference between cable puller and other come along is that cable pullers are perceived as heavy duty tools, pull capacity can be 4 ton(8800lbs), while typical hand winch has 400-4000lbs capacity and mostly used to pull boat out of or lower boat into water from trailer, sometimes also called boat trailer winch. People also give the name chain come along to these pullers and blocks, since people always use chains with them, in most cases only grade 80 or higher grade chains will work with these come along.

For stretching, pulling, lifting and lowering, cable pullers are the best choice. You can pull or release vehicles onto and from trailer respectively, hold or drag trees when you’re logging, to lift or lower heavy stuff in your house, pull the tree stumps out of somewhere , compare to electric powered winch, e.g. UTV Winch, cable pullers are inexpensive handy tools. Now we need to get the cable puller, nowadays the first thing to do is go online, more than hundreds of good stores at your finger tip. 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.

When you have choices, you should use hand puller instead of electric one, since there is no waste when you use it, and since there are only mechanical parts the hand puller is cheaper and cleaner to make.

We got a tree stump in the front , it’s diameter is about a little bit more than 4 feet, it had bothered us for a few years, we’ve tried chainsaw on it but nothing can go through it, lately we bought a 4 ton cable puller , hooked onto a pickup and pulled the stump out without major effort!

Actually cable pullers are heavy duty hand tools and can be used to do a lot of things, sometimes you even can use it in pace of ATV Winch to save money. The cable pullers usually have 1 ton to 4 ton pulling capacity, the lifting capacity is half of the pulling, and pull reach can be 6′ to 12′, 4 ton puller typically has 6′ reach but extra heavy duty ones may have more than 11′ reach. 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 hoist, chain pullers, hand winch, strap pullers, and more, in a word, a come along is a hand operated ratchet lever winch. The difference between cable puller and other come alongs is that cable pullers are considered heavy duty tools, pull capacity can be 4 ton(8800lbs), while typical hand winch has 400-4000lbs capacity and mostly used to pull boat out of or lower boat into water from trailer, sometimes also called boat trailer winch.

You have to do your homework before you go out to buy a cable puller, get to know it’s features. The cable limiter on a cable puller help to keep 2 wraps of cable on ratchet wheel, and you can release loads one notch at a time, so you can lower a vehicle or tree safely, it usually has a laminated steel ratchet wheel, rust resistant plated steel, drop forged steel safety hooks, it features aircraft cable, 4 ton one will have 5/16” galvanized aircraft cable, and all the cable pullers will have to meet OSHA and ASME specs. The cable pullers usually come with two slip hooks with safety latch, and some extra heavy duty ones have 3 safety hooks for extra protection.

If you want to lifting or lowering something, you should choose cable pullers. To pull vehicles onto the trailer or release the vehicle off the trailer, to pull or tear down trees, to lift or lower heavy stuff in your house, pull the stuck trees out of somewhere , compare to electric powered winch, such as electric winch , cable pullers are cheaper alternatives.