Blanks for the components of such a winch can be found among unnecessary metal trash. A few movements with a grinder, applying a couple of welding seams and a simple hand winch is ready.
Due to its compactness, it will not take up much space in the trunk of a car, but is guaranteed to help pull the car out of snow, mud, ditch, swamp, etc. Moreover, the driver or passenger himself acts as the winch drive.
How to make a hand winch using simple materials
The main part of our manual winch in winter will be a steel pin, slightly pointed at one end, with a diameter of 18-22 mm and a length of 60-70 cm. In the summer, we replace it with a crowbar with a diameter of 28 mm and a length of about 100 cm, because in warm weather the ground thaws and is not as strong as in winter.
The second part from a piece of pipe with drilled transverse holes and threads cut into them with two bolts is attached to a pin or crowbar. The bushing is reinforced on top with a ring of steel rod welded along the outer edge.
On top of the pin we put another longer tube until it touches the sleeve with the shell welded to the bottom of the tube. We longitudinally weld the legs of a semicircular bow, bent from a powerful rod, to the top of the tube.
In order to use a hand winch and pull the car out of captivity, we will additionally need a shovel handle, a hand drill, a small sledgehammer, a steel cable or towing halyard and a gas wrench (for pulling the pin out of the ground).
As the car moves, we drive a steel pin in front or behind, depending on the circumstances, at a certain angle away from the car, having previously drilled a hole with a drill. We attach the towing halyard to the eye of the pipe placed on the pin. At the bottom of the tube, on a pin above the surface of the ground, we fix the bushing with two bolts.
We throw an unnecessary rug, an old jacket or a piece of cloth over the halyard at some distance from the pin, just in case. If the halyard breaks, its energy will be extinguished by this material.
To create the illusion of a wheel falling into a ditch, place a shoe under it, put the car on the handbrake and engage first downshift. We leave a mark opposite the center of the wheel. In our case, this is the second shoe.
We insert the handle of a shovel into the eye on the tube and rotate the tube, the towing halyard begins to wrap around it, and the car gradually moves from its original place and the wheel leaves the ditch.
The method discussed above can be extremely simplified. It is enough to have a crowbar, a handle and a towing halyard. We hammer the crowbar into the ground, attach a handle transversely to its upper part, put a halyard loop on its short side and begin to rotate the handle around the crowbar. The halyard, wound around a crowbar, pulls out the car.
