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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

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

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

oliver17 wrote: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