Hydraulic winch operation

[oliver17]

Hi everyone after some advice again please
I have a Mk1 E1A which I want to run a hydraulic 3 point link winch off at the moment I have a return pipe running into the filler bung and the flow running off the trailer tipping pipe and the hydraulics only work with the lift arms lifted right up is there a way of changing/altering this to operate the lift arms and hydraulic feed separately? or some where else I can take a hydraulic feed from?
will get some pictures tomorrow if that will help
thanks
oli

[brockwood]

hi this question has been covered quite a bit in resent posts about front end loaders / post drivers and a large post on control valves in the resant past .quite easy to get here in aus apparantly rear in uk however unfortunately you wont power much of a winch with a majors hydraulics as the volume is just to low b

[oliver17]

The winch only requires 30 ltrs a minute to power it I thought a major could do this no problem? as I have seen majors with winches and other hydraulic implements on before

[brockwood]

hi by my book new major 18 power with the extra revs 22 now thats flat out bj

[super6954]

The winch only requires 30 ltrs a minute to power it I thought a major could do this no problem? as I have seen majors with winches and other hydraulic implements on before

Hi
All the Majors I have ever seen with winches have been pto or chain drive from the belt pulley on the side. If you put a hyd winch on your tractor, it will turn very slow with less gpm than it needs. Gpm gives the speed to the winch motor or speed to a cylinder function. Pressure gives it power. So basically your winch will be dead slow and low on power if you got less pressure/flow than you need. if my thinking is correct .
A guy can run any hyd stuff on a major he wants, it just might not work very well with lower flows and pressures, so could be useless in the real world basically .

A guy could always add a high capacity pump driven by the front crank pulley with a shaft conversion like on some old diggers, or pto drive pump if there is room between the tractor and winch, and draw oil flow from a separate tank mounted on the tractor for either set up. or just find a proper winch for a major, could be a problem if you still need 3 point hitch. Then you would have to have a pto driven 3 point hitch mounted winch instead of hydraulic drive .
Hope this might help you a bit more with what you need to do to hopefully make a good usable winch tractor
Regards Robert