The ozzy honesty is truly endearing !!! CHEERS

This video should have 10 Million views! The Capstan winch is an absolute thing of beauty! New subscriber here!

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words and welcome to the Seriously Series KZread community. Cheers Geoff

Good point about keeping those old techniques alive Geoff! Great video as always - ATB from Belgium

Good to see the series 3 rolling around and the winch in action. Thanks for the great video

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

It’s great having it back on the road, thanks for watching.

Right on mate. I’ve always wanted to see one of those working 🍺

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Graem Elliott I’m sure we will make more videos of it in use on our future trips! Thanks for watching

So simple. Great video.

Legendary capstan..thanks for the video..very clear and informative.. 🙌

I love that winch - great Video - thank´s a lot!

Great video! I needed to understand how a windlass works in my line of electrical engineering (stringing conductors) and this video was great at explaining the operation

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video and it was of some help. Cheers Geoff

The capstan's big advantage is like other PTO winches is can extract a convoy of trucks without overheating or cooking a battery. When i ran one hidden behind the grille of a 3 door Rangie the V8 didn't work up a sweat. It once pulled 17 trucks out of a river in one sitting.

very good video, thanks for all the details and the quality of the explanations.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

7 ай бұрын

No worries, keep you posted on the next chapter. Kind regards, Geoff

I'd never seen one demonstrated. Big, big thank you.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

No worries David. Glad you enjoyed it.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. :)

Awesome stuff!

Awesome stuff as ever! Just finished restoring my early Fairey capstan, very enjoyable. You mention Mick O, I can recommend one of his Carawagon or Dormobile roof racks, they are just cool... Keep up the great videos, always enjoy them.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steam Wally. Mick has some very interesting kit and well worth checking out his website.

Nice to see the capstan being used, I used them for years on my Landies & my trawler & with polyprop & nylon rope, but never once melted it, simply because it was always wet, so a bottle of water's always handy when not using Hemp, although it's a lovely rope to use with a capstan. Good interesting video my friend

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your kind words and thank you fir sharing a great top tip. Kind regards, Geoff

Just subscribed, we love our capstan winch, great video 🚜🪵🇺🇸

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks, there are fun bit of kit. Welcome to thew Seriously Series community. Kind regards , Geoff

Good instructions on the winch.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Nigel. I hope you found it of use. Cheers Geoff

Geoff when i ran a capstan i found a tall narrow garden hose reel made of 3/8" rod. With a 100ft of 3/4" rope on it, i would only run out as much as i needed. Being so open the coil dried nicely in storage. So much easier to set up with not a tangle in sight and fast to put away. Next Landy i put the winch on will likely get a custom horisontal reel above the spare. Cheers from NZ

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

Жыл бұрын

Hi Brett. Great suggestion. I have been keeping an eye out for either a reel or motor bike tyre to store it in. Thanks for sharing. Kind regards, Geoff

i love that style of winch, was thinking of leaving my drum winch empty and feed wraps around it to operate this way but its too awkward

A car as classic as antique VW, Mercedes and Mustang!

great video. lookin for a capstan with for my series 3, always into anything landy and if its for 4wding, well, thats a big tick in my book. cheers mate

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Lochlan. Glad to here the video helped, best luck with getting your capstan. many thanks

Ive seen a similar capstan on a jeep here. Hasnt broken in the many years I have been around. Its a 1956 model jeep.

We used to buy these ropes as 'waggon traces' but they disappeared from agricultural suppliers years ago! Of course hand winches of this type are all over sailing yachts, holding the rope is called 'tailing' the winch & many are 'self tailing' because being manually operated you 'pump' the winch handle to actuate the winch.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

7 ай бұрын

Amazing and very interesting. Thank you for sharing 👍🏻😀. Kind regards, Geoff

In the states we call that sack a Burlap sack.... Its what cattle feed comes in.

If you are using a capstan winch on your own - for safety - fit an external kill switch for the engine near the fairlead - you can also fit a cleat to maintain tension when you stop so you can apply brake or chocks ?

Great video.. love this winch! This thing is so bloody dangerous, but we're all grown men here and this is so cool :)

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Well said Duncan, well said

@karlmaclean7409

3 жыл бұрын

i have done plenty of winch recoveries and having to stand next to rope under tension is very dangerous if something breaks.

@kiwibrett

Жыл бұрын

With a capstan you don't actually have to stand so close. Providing you can get a good angle on the winchman's end, he can be a considerable distance away.

Very cool

Very Good video, I would have liked to have seen a look underneath to see how its all connected up to the gearbox. Maybe if you do another video sometime ,You don't see many videos on pto stuff, it all very interesting to me.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Harnser. That is great suggestion and I will add it to the videos to be filmed list.I'll be sure to make a mention of you in it, Kind regards Geoff

Excellent video excellent idea, you might want to pull that rope at 90 degrees, if that rope ever breaks , it'll whip the skin off you.

Capstan winch just screams safari!

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

Жыл бұрын

Totally, 200% with you there. Cheers Geoff

If you want a series 3 hand throttle kit I have one somewhere. It may have been thrown away but i'm happy to look. It came from my 109 FFR. I converted it to a 200TDI and removed it from the interior. I did not realize they were rare or even desirable as you say.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Abt3r. Yes i would be very interested in a hand throttle for the Series 3. That sounds like a great fleet you have there. Kind regards, Geoff

Nice video. Is a nice piece of history I had one in my ex series 1 was and Aeroparts the problem is that the shear pin is rated to 1800 kg and to me is not sufficient power to take out a really stuck series

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Pablo Dell Oro. You are spot on in regards to the shear pin, a common modification which many people do is fitting a grade 5 high tensile bolt instead of a shear pin. this works fine and will not damage the winch, though it allows you to pull a little more. I believe it is mentioned in the Fairey Capstan winch manual and i have put a link to the manual down below. Anyway thank you for watching and for you comment. Cheers Geoff www.ovlr.org/jberg/capstan.pdf

@andrewt3023

Жыл бұрын

just invest in a snatch block or two and work the mechanical advantage of a double or triple line pull, redwinch make a fiddle block for 4wd now which let you rig a five line pull which opens up a lot more potential for the humble capstan

Had a 'Bad'ford with a capstan and a piece of wire fitted to the carb through the radiator grille forming an eye on the outside to control the engine speed when winching. Some military series and Bedfords were fitted standard with an external throttle device, makes winching easier. Best to fit a electric switch near the winch breaking power to the coil in emergency circumstances on petrols or a electric pump with killswitch on diesels as clothing and rope can lead to the operator being trapped, although non original, safety first.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

Жыл бұрын

Hi Pieter. Thank you for sharing that interesting information. I'll look at rigging something up similar to what you describe, but will be sure to fit a kill switch. Kind regards, Geoff

Thanks for the video Geoff, I have just bought a Fairey capstan winch for my Series IIA so looking forward to getting to use it. Looks like the rope is sold out on LR Bits in the UK so need to find one in the US, any reco's on where to acquire one. What are your thoughts on the Fairey vs. Aeroparts?

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Gary. LR Bitz do ship worldwide. In regards to Aeroparts and Fairey capstan winches they are pretty much the same design with slight variation. Kind regards, Geoff

Is there a video of the unit and when you fitted it. Great bit of kit.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Christopher. sadly not at this stage i will jot that down for a future video. Cheers Geoff

looks like a D series Aero Capstan, in which case rated to 3000lbs pull at best (and no shear pin), so the 5 tonne rope would be a bit overkill, you could get by with a lighter 3/4 inch rope and still be twice the breaking strain of the winch

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Civic Proframe. Thank you for those wise words.

@lukeluck7433

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, the weight and bulk difference would be noticeable if you're carrying 30 meters plus. also 3/4 inch hemp rope is fairly easy to put a good eye splice into as well, starts to get difficult quickly as you get bigger than that, a strong eye splice in 3/4 inch shouldn't lose any more than 20% of its rating at very worst

Hello Geoff, Thank you for this very interesting demonstration. I already saw it once some time ago. I had to look at it a second time because, in between, I have looked around and test drive a 1977 109 Serie III 919 type 2.25 diesel soft top for sale. This car is also equipped with a capstan such as yours. I have one question: when do you engage the capstan to the motor? You did not show this in this video. Is it with the motor on or do you have to stop it to be able to engage the capstan? I tried to engage it (gently) with the motor in motion and I stopped when I heard some mechanical protest... Should I have insisted? Or do you do this operation with the motor off? If it is with the motor on, how do you move the axle, progressively or firmly in one quick action? I think you can disengage the capstan with the motor on (logically). I know... A lot of dumb questions for something that is so obvious to you that you did not film it. Tschuss.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Serge. Yes, you are spot on. It is best to locking in the winch drive the motor when the motor has stopped. I find using the crackle through the winch helpful as this allows you to line up the dog clutch easier by simply rotating the crank handle. I hope this helped, and there is no such thing as a dumb question. Cheers Geoff

make a video on using a chinese windlas to winch your car

Hi from New Zealand just subscribed today, someone had a comment say why couldn't you sit in the cab ov the rover and keep tension on the from there. I was thinking the same thing, was wondering if you ever tried it maybe it's a hole new video for you to film , just wondering if it works 🤔

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

Жыл бұрын

Hi there. Good suggestion. From my experience I feel that it may not work from the cab because you will not be able to keep enough tension on the rope, also it becomes a bit messy in the cab with rope going everywhere and the rope also would become damaged as it scraps over the sharp corners of the Series 3 panels. Kind regards, Geoff

Hello! My Name is Anthony Vega, and I am from Costa Rica, I really like your videos, I would like to know if with you I could get accesorios For my series 3? I thank you for an answer and I congratulate you for your videos.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Anthony. If you are interest in purchasing on of these winches you can buy one from www.lr-winches.com/ I hope this helps.

This is where talking to a sailor first helps. The winch line you're using is twice the diameter it needs to be to work properly with that capstan. That's why you're having such a hard time holding it you can't get enough wraps around the drum to tail with light effort. For winch line that size you're looking at a capstan that's almost a foot in diameter.

For the first 8 minutes of waffly video, was it intentional to have the rope around the capstan the wrong way ?

There's no reason why you couldn't loop the rope over the fairlead and up to the driver's window and maintain tension while you're sat in it

@mattluszczak8095

Жыл бұрын

That sounds 😂 like a fantacy

OH! mind your fingers when putting COILS of rope on the capstan

Capstans are strong. Ships use them for mooring. Bad thing about natural line is snap back. We used aramid line which doesn’t snap back. It just collapses

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Very true, I put a winch cable dampen of the rope. Cheers Geoff

That fiber comes from jute plant. We called it golden fiber when we exported few decades ago. Then the world stopped using it. 😢

Pulled my SIIA off a pebble beach on the Isle of Wight back in 1994 with one of those .

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Top job 👍🏻

@bermudarailway2411

3 жыл бұрын

@@seriouslyseriesaustralia On the first attempt the rope broke .It was dark freezing cold in February and I thought "Oh dear I hope I loaded my snatch block ." Fortunately I had and a double line pull saved the day.

Classic

So you can't use a starting handle on this one??

@pablodelloro1750

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. You can but need to change the shear pin with a bolt

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Kota. Yes, you need to buy a special starting handle which you can pick up from LR Winches. In order to use the starting handle, you will need to make sure that you have a steel shear pin fitted to the winch as a brass shear pin will become damaged or sheared upon starting the motor. I have placed a web link below to the relevant page in regards to the starting handle you would need. Cheers Geoff www.lr-winches.com/Parts/Winches/Mechanical_Capstan_Winches/product/489/Fairey_Aeroparts_Capstan_Winch_-_Starting_Handle

10:00 KLUTZ - had the hand brake on! - without, one turn of rope will pull the LR ! Leave the handbrake on and pull it !

What you haven't pointed it is the main advantage of a Capstan Winch. The pull of the winch remains constant. There is no increase in diamiter that you get in a drum winch. I'd suggest you still use gloves, one slip and hemp will give you a nasty rope burn. A Capstan is better used as a fixed point , pull the load to you, hence the use for pulling cables. I can give you the number of someone in Wales (Bettween England and Ireland Wales) who can probably get you a hand throttle set up. They were common on Army FFW and FFR vehicles.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Hi 51WCDodge. Very true. We would be very interested if you would know of someone which is willing to sell a handle throttle set up for the Series 3. Kind regards Geoff

@51WCDodge

4 жыл бұрын

@@seriouslyseriesaustralia Ok , is there an e mail I can send you and adress?It isn't that difficult to jury rig a hand throttle for a series 3 You can run a Bowden cable from the throttle linkage through a hole at the front , the beauty of this is you can then operate the throttle whilst you are near the capstan. The FFR setup mounts on the inside of the bulkhead, so can only be poerated rom inside the vehicle.

That type of rope is widley used in the states.

What kind of engine do you have in this SWB?

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Coordinator 61.We have the original 2.25 ltr petrol.

@Coordinator61

4 жыл бұрын

@@seriouslyseriesaustralia Ok cool. I am still in love with a Perentie. Maybe one day coming over and rent one. But my wife is scared of everthing that can bite her over there. We need training for sure.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

@@Coordinator61 I am sure that is a possibility

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Surely using that winch would be faster than walking into town

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Long walk over here in Australia, and when your bogged your not going anywhere in a hurry. Cheers Geoff

11:45 If you'd bothered to grease and maintain that roller, it'd actually roll like it's supposed to. You did pack your grease gun didn't you ?

Brilliant, great, now all I have to do is to restore my capstan winch and fit it to the series 2

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

4 жыл бұрын

Jan Q-H if you haven’t seen them already we have a few videos showing the internals of the capstan winch. check them out!

@janq-h8139

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously Series I have seen most (all?) of your videos, you are doing a splendid job, in informing about the series truck´s. Thanks a lot, greetings from Norway.

So I know you have to cover your self but you don’t need 2 people to work the winch as long as it’s out of gear and not facing down hill.If there’s any problems while winching you just loosen the end you are holding and it stops pulling cheers all

I can see you have put some effort into the video fair play. Your technique of pulling under the roller scares me as it would be easy to have one wrap slip over another and lock on plus when pulling really hard the wraps can lock on and you need to throw a loop of slack to unlock immediately. Your missing the point of these winches a little though, they really are best for pulling things too a stationary Land Rover rather than for self recovery, I do tree work so also play with rigging a little mine has a Fairey 4000ld unit infront of a 200tdi and have pulled some ridiculously large bits of sawlog with it and winched over trees, ive broken two thinner than standard but not a 40 spec one think the shear pins are a minimum break strain so probably pull beyond them I had to make chocks for the front tyres as it will just pull all four wheels otherwise. The natural ropes do not melt onto the bollard but they also are typically very low stretch so considered "static" a "dynamic" rope has elasticity so after pulling with 1-2ton of tension you don't want all that stored in an elastic rope your holding onto. Never stand in a wrap and never wrap rope around your wrist etc!!! I really should get my own video of mine pulling logs or trees over one day just dont think about it at the time when I am trying to get a job done.

"Don't do this at home" - honestly I do not intent to, I will do it abroad far out of sight of "home" (obviously not a comment for the "home ist where Your Landy stops" - fraction) 😂

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Yes I agree it is a thing of beauty. However my girlfriend doesn't think so

Now I know why you don't see capstan winches anymore. I reckon one serious bogging, throw in a 90 degree side pull (like I did a few weeks back) or even under car reverse pull and trying to use that thing to get out will have you searching the internet for WARN electric self recovery winches. I'll look forward to the eBay ad... Landrover capstan winch, only used once.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on what you are pulling out, as you know a winch should be correctly rated for the vehicle.

@dustyfarmer

3 жыл бұрын

@@seriouslyseriesaustralia Well your capstan winch/hemp rope set up is designed to pull short runs of electrical cable in conduit. I wouldn't go anywhere solo in the aussie bush with that. Your life depends on your equipment & a reliable electric winch that can do the job & recovery gear is paramount. You've got L.E.D spotlights presumably because they are better than period spotties, why not a fit for purpose 12 volt self recovery winch instead of an worksite relic?

@royblackburn1163

3 жыл бұрын

@@dustyfarmer A mechanical winch will run all day, electric winches overheat and suck all the amps out of a battery and destroy them in no time at all, horses for courses.

@dustyfarmer

3 жыл бұрын

@@royblackburn1163 That capstan winch wouldn't pull the skin of a rice pudding let alone a heavily bogged vehicle. I've been getting my Landcruiser bogged to the sills lately on my block & the WARN XD9000 mounted to the front of it performs flawlessly even to the point of stall out on single line pull, and that's on one starting battery only and that battery is still starting it everyday, I just up the RPM when winching and keep it on idle up during cool down periods and I have ZERO! issues battery wise. I wouldn't trust that capstan winch in the Australian bush, it is simply not up to the task. Recovery gear selection & the type of winch fitted tells me all I need to know about the level of understanding of whoever runs it and what they think is required as the minimum standard in self recovery gear.

@andrewt3023

Жыл бұрын

@@dustyfarmer not sure why you wouldn't trust it, its much more robust than an electric winch, it is relatively weak though. THe SWB Land Rover is a very light vehicle though, before I put the capstan on mine i recovered with a trifor hand winch many times in in the bush, and the capstan is definitely a step up from that, a double or triple line pull gets you out of most situations but now redwinch have come out with fiddle blocks that let you easily rig a 5 line pull which means my humble capstan can pull my brother in laws 80 series cruiser out of the mud!

That might have been useful in 1914 but nowadays it's just apain in the ass eyesore

The reason why a capstan or drum end winch is obsolete on vehicles is because of no proper control. Get a riding turn and no stop button on Land Rover PTO.it's desaster. !!!! It's rigged incorrectly too. I have used winches since a boy. Now 79.!!

@swarfify

Жыл бұрын

Drum and winches are for ships & boats..

12:25 Yeah, I get the picture - you're an absolute dipstick. For safety's sake, you should be stood beside the vehicle and not in front of it (offside) and the rope you're holding does not need to go through the front roller either ! I'm pretty sure 1 or both of those headlight surrounds has been fitted incorrectly too !

NONSENSE-----that junk rope won't do 1 ton, let alone 5. Get ready for failure if you try for 5. You are another accident waiting to happen. Some synthetic rope is good, some is not.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Strong words Glen.It is rated and nature fiber rope has been used for millennia and is used by most rigging companies. Cheers Geoff

@neutronstorm

3 жыл бұрын

@@seriouslyseriesaustralia can you please post where you purchased this rope and its specifications? From what I can see, you need a rope with a diameter of over an inch to get a 5t breaking strain.

@seriouslyseriesaustralia

3 жыл бұрын

@@neutronstorm no worries here is the weblink below; www.lrbits.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=60_22&products_id=10&zenid=gvso3knf4hjpf7kgrq1b64j2e7

@neutronstorm

3 жыл бұрын

@@seriouslyseriesaustralia ". The rope has a breaking strain of 3.25 tonnes when new. " can't find the 5t one yet.

@arbit3r

3 жыл бұрын

Relax

Do you think you could get someone who knows what they're doing to make your videos ? 90% boring waffle and all the interesting bits missed out !

Why can't you edit your video in a more efficient manner so that people don't waste their time watching your unnecessary waffle. Pls respect other's valuable time.