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erikn: You have wery accurate eyes if you noticed that braking system. I'm using the rear wheel from "suzuki pv" as the winch drum and along that came the brakes. I don't know do you have suzuki pv:s ...

mr.skalski: Yes 10 hp is enough for deepwater starts, at least it was enough in our setup. I weight about 70 kg and have 115cm board. Winch has 200 meters of 3mm line spooled to 200mm diameter drum (6 ...

Rob: Thanks for the invitation. In fact I am coming to Sweden for two days busines trip on 24 of may, but the hotels are booked from Karlstad and Kristineham so it's kind of too tight time scedule. Sad

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Here are couple of guys that used to ride a wakeboard but bored with that. I have been riding 8 years now and the last 3 years only with wakeskate.

By the way we had first winch tests last weekend. ...

It's nice to hear that someone else in northern europe is building own winches too. I live in west coast of Finland.

I allready bought 10hp briggs&stratton with centrifugal clutch. That variator t ...

They are not doing any deepwater starts in that video. When using centrifugal cluthes the engine must have enough power to increase rpm to engage clutch to pull the rider up. If the engine don't have ...

I am planning to build own winch for wakeskating and the biggest problem so far is the engine size. The information I found on the net says ~8HP is enough but in my calculations it will need attleast ...

Does anyone know how powerfull is the engine used in winches? I can see from the photos that it's a Briggs&Stratton engine. But I can't see how much horsepowers it has..