Tucson Tug: photos from start to finish

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

tell me what u think!

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Just waiting on rope.

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

oops my bad.

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

more!

Soulprogression · Posted: May 27, 2008 9:44 am Post subject:

looks good, how much was your total build cost, love the wheels!

my only suggestion would be a spool that isn't so wide, you're more than likely going to run into a few issues, one being the line not spooling on very smoothly and two it building up in bunches and slipping down the sides while riding, this causes a jerky pulling and snapping motion of the line while you're riding, kind of a pain when setting up to hit a rail or gap. I used a similar setup with an atv hub, but kept it whole, then used sidewalls, 600 ft of line fits perfect and room for more, it's about the width of the roller roper feeder, and it spools on really smoothly and theres no slipping or jerking of the line while riding.

wow sorry for all that haha, just a suggestion though, worked well for me.

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

Soulprogression, thanks for the tip. Im waiting on the rope right now so ill see if theres a problem then.

motor-free!
tav-$130
fairlead-$15
chain, sprocket, axle, 3 hubs, rim-$148 (with s and h)
metal-free
wheels-free
pillow blocks-free
cutting discs-free

so under $300!!

Soulprogression · Posted: May 27, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject:

good stuff, awesome build price, i did my spool very similarly at first and the width and only the bolts to wrap around caused those few problems for me, the smooth roundness of the hub made it spool up and off real nice, let me know how it goes.

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: May 27, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

i love the red dude, looks so nice. and CHEAP! wow.

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

-=AlexXx=-, thanks. It is so red. Even at night it POPs!

I didn't really realize how cheep it was until a added it up in that post. Me and my buddy split the cost so only like $150 a piece.

I bought 800' ft of 7/64 amsteel the total was $128.75 with s@h

sandiego4real · Backside 180 Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 518

Did you make your spool a releasing spool??
Because its a pain with a TAV if you dont

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

sandiego4real, nope i sure didnt. but the spool is what I want to upgrade next.

dalesk8 · Backside 180 Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 719 City: South OZ

LFArmada, you will want to have a releasing spool with the TAV.

hus #1 · Ollie Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 71 City: UK

i have a releasing spool and unless i'm swiming the line out i dont bother pulling the pin out, walking out the line is no problem

its nice to have but i wouldn't say its a must have

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

other than the lack of a releasing spool, what do you guys think?

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

looks solid

you can usually pop the belt off of your tav and pull the rope out just as easy as if you had a releasing spool.

price.dan · Backside 180 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 1404 City: Regina

nice winch, looks sick.

splash guard?

sandiego4real · Backside 180 Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 518

Or you can pop the chain off too

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

how important is the splash guard? a lot of winches I see don't have them.

I was thinking about putting wing nuts on the hub holding on the sprocket so i could slide the sprocket off the hub to release the rope.

sandiego4real · Backside 180 Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 518

A splash gaurd is pretty important.With out one you get soaked and so does your engine.
It is big a plus to have one.

hus #1 · Ollie Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 71 City: UK

yeah if you have a friend driving it thats not riding hes not gunna want to be wet thro after a few pulls

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

i never thought of that. lol
ill haveto see what I can do for a splash guard.