We had a tree stump on our lawn , its diameter is about a little bit more than 4′ , it had bothered us for quite some time , we’ve tried chainsaw on it but nothing can go through it, lately we got 4 ton rated cable pullers , together with my truck pulled the stump out without major effort!
Actually hand 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 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 puller , 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, 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.
The cable pullers are ideal for stretching, pulling, lifting and lowering. 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 stuck trees out of somewhere , compare to electric powered winch, such as electric winch , cable pullers are inexpensive handy tools. All nice things have been said now let’s get a real cable puller, the way to do it is to get it online, a few searches away there will be more than a few nice deals. You know you want a deal as good as you can get, check both the product review and reseller ratings of the product vendor, don’t go with something blindly.
When you have choices, the hand cable puller is the one if you love to live green, since there is no waste when you use it, and the manufacturing process for hand puller is cleaner as well.
