Boughton Winch 205

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county654
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Boughton Winch 205

Post by county654 »

Hallo,
over here in Germany we hardly find a Boughton winch.
Now I was offerd a Modell 205.
Does anyone know, what time they were build?
It is a two Speed Version, what would be the pulling potential?

Kind regards
Matthias
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Re: Boughton Winch 205

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Boughtons were T T Boughton of Amersham Common in Buckinghamshire Mathias, I don't think I have ever seen a catalogue but they were the manufacturing side of a company involved in timber extraction & haulage from Victorian days, they made steam winches for cut down steam lorries like the Foden with a reputation of huge line pull capacity, they supplied many winches for ex military AWD vehicles and had a tremendous reputation for strength & durability in the timber trade. Later they made them for crawler and 4wd tractors with a special line for hauling high tension power cables onto pylons for our national grid system.

http://amershamhistory.info/research/tr ... boughtons/

You may be able to gauge the pull from the breaking strain of the cable, they generally had the capacity to break it !

woodcutter or bensdexta might know more as this previous thread mentions the 205 but photobucket has assasinated the photo's :cry: http://www.fordsontractorpages.nl/phpbb ... f=9&t=3571

HTH get you going, it looks a reaaly nice winch and I am envious :mrgreen:
Best regards
Rick - Bogside on Bure


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county654
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Re: Boughton Winch 205

Post by county654 »

Thank you for the Information and the link.

Would be great to hear from owners of a winch about the Details.
Regards Matthias

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Re: Boughton Winch 205

Post by woodcutter »

If I get the chance of a boughton I would buy it, they are getting hard to get in uk, I find them good for heavy pulls for lighter stuff a more modern skidding winch is better. I'm looking for one at moment to put on super major

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