Question about CMP winch?

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Barry Churcher

Phil, I don't have the correct answer to your query but I do know that if the winches are heavily loaded the frame will twist before anything breaks. When I was working on my artillery tractor I went through three badly twisted chassis before I found a good one. The best chassis came from a truck that had spent it's life as a tow truck.
Cheers,
Barry

Barry - You hit the nail on the head about hard use, this particular 1941 C60L had been hard used and abused. It spent part of its life building Mount Ascutney Ski Area in Vermont, from the cable reel frame on the back it was used to drag cable up the mountain. It had been rolled at one point bending the cab frame and brake peddle, the clutch housing had so many cracks in that when you tapped it with a hammer it went thud.

The winch guides all showed evidence of hard use and have actually been worn by the cable pulling across them. Given all that one of the first things I did was check all the diagonal measurements across the frame and the silly thing was straight and flat.

In parts of the world where there are multiple CMPs to choose from I'm sure that this one would have been considered a parts truck.