Come-A-Long: Chain Hoists and Cable Pullers

Posted on Monday, May 30th, 2011 at 9:19 am

For about a month we’ve been wrestling with a large Balsam Fir which had been partially blown up and ended up hanging on to another tree, and it was on a steep slope within less than 10 feet of our garage door, we tried a 2 ton puller on it and ended up destroying the puller, we had to buy a cable puller with 4 ton capacity , and this time it did  the job without breaking anything .

Cable pullers are nice all purpose and strong stretching tools that any handy man should have them around in their work places. 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, chain hoist, 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 heavy, non movable , such as a tree. Actually the most popular chain come along is chain hoist, people usually use hoists in industrial applications.

If you want to lifting or lowering something, you should choose cable pullers. To pull vehicles onto the trailer or release the vehicle off the trailer, hold or pull trees when you’re logging, pull big rack or shed around your house, pull the tree stumps out of somewhere , compare to electric powered winch, such as electric winch , cable pullers are cheaper handy tools. OK, it’s time to get some pullers, nowadays the first thing to do is go online, just type in a few keywords you will get what you’re looking for.

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