Power Tools or Hand Tools?
For quite some time we’ve been wrestling with a large Balsam Fir which had been partially blown up and ended up hanging on to another tree, and it was on a steep slope within less than 10′ of our garage door, we bought a two ton cable puller and ended up destroying the puller, we had to get another 4 ton cable puller, and this time it got the job done and our garage was still standing .
Actually 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. A typical cable puller has 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 hoists, chain pullers, hand winch, strap pullers, and more, in a word, a come along is a hand operated ratchet lever winch. Typically hand winch is used to pull boat out of water on the boat trailer or lower the boat into water, hence the name ‘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. And there is chain hoist which is called chain come along as well, the hoist mainly is used in industrial jobs.
For stretching, pulling, lifting and lowering, cable pullers are the best choice. 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 ditch , compare to electric powered winch, such as electric winch, cable pullers are inexpensive handy tools. We made our point let’s get a real cable puller, nowadays the first thing to do is go online, just type in a few keywords you will get what you’re looking for.
As we can see, these hand tools are always ready whenever you need them, while gasoline powered tools will be out of order from time to time, and we have to take pollution into consideration when we use gasoline tools. To leave our sons and grandsons a clean earth, if I have choice I will always use hand tools.