Electron_Sam78
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Anyone made their own wire tugger? I need to pull a 415' run of 4 #2 and 1 #4.
home made tugger
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Electron_Sam78
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I was thinking about that but that would take a long time
Believe it or not, many years ago I worked with a guy that had made a capstan that would bolt to the rear wheel of his old Ford 150, he would jack his truck up and put it on jack stands and use low gear.
The problem was he could only use it in limited spaces that he could get close to which usually meant outside pulls.
Roger
The problem was he could only use it in limited spaces that he could get close to which usually meant outside pulls.
Roger
ptonsparky
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A pulley or two and an F250 works well. Low range.
My bet is many of the guys that made something up may be missing their hands to post their horror story
Cow
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I'd probaby buy that deal Maxxis makes using a right angle drill before I made one.
Or rent one.
Auctions are good way to go too. That's how we picked up our second Greenlee tugger and a big Rigid pipe threader.
Or rent one.
Auctions are good way to go too. That's how we picked up our second Greenlee tugger and a big Rigid pipe threader.
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A few years ago a utility worker in Boston lost both arms in a wire pulling accident, nothing to fool around with.
Cavie
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A fram and a winch on the front of a truck
macmikeman
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Don't forget you can also hitch up a horse to do this. Me, I just went ahead years ago and bought a Greenlee, figuring it was cheaper than hay and oats.
peter d
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Do you have the back story on that?
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No, I did spend some time trying to find it on Google but it may have been as far back as 85 - 90.
What I remember is that a new young worker for the power company was in a man hole feeding cables and lost both arms. If I recall correctly he had lived.
harbormaster
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Yep...and up in the red iron bar joists! Take 3 or 4 wraps of the pull rope...but don't stand under it!
About 20 years ago, I worked with a guy that did this on a job, just to get it done.
His glove got caught between the pipe and the rope, no foot peddle.
He was being pulled into the live switchgear while his arm got wrapped around the pipe, not good.
The only thing that saved him was that the cord pulled out before he got to the gear.
His arm got real messed up.
I wouldn't recommend using this method.
GUNNING
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Rent a drunk and a truck.
Rent a drunk and a truck.
We used to use a truck and pullies. They worked ok.
The other crew built one out of strut. Saw it buckle and bend in half on a pull once.
I'm thinking rental at this point would be your best and safest option.
Or a truck and renal labor.
Rent a drunk and a truck.
We used to use a truck and pullies. They worked ok.
The other crew built one out of strut. Saw it buckle and bend in half on a pull once.
I'm thinking rental at this point would be your best and safest option.
Or a truck and renal labor.
The accidents I know about occured when people were using nylon rope or aircraft cable ( or any thing else that stretches). A rope that stretches when tensioned equals stored energy, stored energy equals danger.
That high priced Greenlee or S&R parallel pull line doesn't stretch.
When your on the feed end and you get a hand or something caught the wrong way and yell "Stop" on the radio, a line with no stored energy ( that's stretch) will stop. A nylon rope may keep going for 3, 4 or more feet. If it's you hand the price of that rope will seem real cheap right about then.
Fulthrotl
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assuming this is in commercial or industrial setting... what i used before i
bought a tugger, is a pulley bolted to the floor, and a piece of emt as a
straight leg, to transfer the tugging energy to the floor, and 1800#
muletape, and a forklift... if you set it up right, you can pull the whole
thing in one pass.... i also drag a soaped rag thru the pipe first, to
get the pipe wet, and as the mule tape is a throwaway, getting it soapy
doesn't matter.... hitch it up to the forklift, and drive away, or if you
don't have the room, take a timber hitch around the fork, and pull it
10' at a time.
as others have said, use a rope suitable for pulling, NOT NYLON!
a 400' pull on 3'8" nylon can store 100' of stretch in the rope without
breaking..... it's hugely dangerous.
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