Petition for Marty to get a much bigger ultrasonic cleaner!

It was a throw back to "Gods must be Crazy" when the Jeep was winching up into tree.

In the 70s I used these big tirfors to extricate trucks, 4x4 s and tree stumps in the Australian outback. They are incredibly powerful to the point of breaking steel cabling. You’re lucky finding one of the old models. Great job. 🇦🇺👏😁

I was waiting for Marty to shout, "Done, Drill Sargeant!" like those Army boot camp movies where they're cleaning their rifles. 😅

Nothing better than hearing rain on the roof as you work in the shop. Very satisfying!

The old Tirfor Winch As a RNZE combat engineer, I spent a lot of time lugging that bit of kit around, along with its handle and the wire rope with attached hook, coiled onto its steel cage. Hi tech in its day and built the last. Perfect for dragging a Bailey bridge or MGB across a gap. Massive Respect 😀👍🏼 Be Kind

Mans ingenuity in conceiving, designing, perfecting, and producing the many, many things which surround us, both useful and beautiful, simply astounds me.

Nice salvage, handy winch to have in the maintenance arsenal of tools available. Thanks for the video young man, I enjoyed it and appreciate your taking the time to post it.

I always. As a lifelong mechanic,the logic you apply to every single thing. !!

Those Tirfor winches are great, I used to use one in my younger days. The three pins holding the pulling lever are shear pins and are designed to split if you pull something greater than the capacity of the winch so you don't damage it. Always handy to keep a few spare ones.

This channel always has an irresistible pull to it.

13:00 had flashbacks to ‘The Gods must be Crazy’. New Zealand has weird friut on its trees.

Wishing you and your family all the best in 2024 Move to USA - we need intelligent people like you brother!!!!!

thank you very much for good entertainment. 🤗👍🤗🇸🇯

You have taken me back to the 1960s/70s when we used Tirfors to install the equipment trailer behind Tunnel Boring Machines, the trailer were mounted on rail track and we'd pull them in from the pit bottom and couple them up. Each would have a conveyor belt to carry the excavated muck out to rail cars. Underneath would electrical cabinets, compressed air compressors, cable storage bins etc. No forgetting a small mess room to grab a cuppa in the shift. Large Tirfors would be used to load cranes etc. onto low loader trucks, smaller ones as tie downs together with chains and toggles. Steel shutters would be used as a form to line rock shafts with reinforced concrete. The form hung on maybe 6 Tirfors with a safety drop chain. A very versatile tool but do keep an eye for cable wear at the used end. Thanks for posting

By watching this video I discovered of myself I don't even have to care about what he's working on Marty seems like such a good dude I'll watch his videos even if the equipment doesn't have an interest to me

👍🙏😇❤GREAT video MARTY!!!

Marty, Please consider a Q&A streaming video. We’re so curious and have so many questions.

Liked the video. I am doing sort of the same thing you are doing, I am thinning a few trees on my overgrown Xmas tree farm, so the trees left will have more sunlight and water. Been using snatch block pully & wire rope w/a TO-30 Ferguson tractor to fall the 50-60' Fir trees in direction I want so they are easier to skid out . Thanks for the watch.

They work great I tore mine apart to clean and grease used it to help people with trees leaning towards homes we had two at work to pull modular home on to basements .You need to get a unit to run your cable through so your not in the way of the tree .Well done sir Marty thank you for sharing

I found one of these on the roadside yesterday, no cable though. Without the videos you made on these I would not have known what it was. But under the first rule of scavenging I snapped it up. I hope it cleans up nicely and now I have some idea of how it works inside. Thanks Marty. I call it "shopping at La Strada". You can buy heaps of amazing stuff there.

I use this Tirfor and have it's baby brother. too with the wire cage .My word they are good for pulling shrubs and small trees out if you have a decent anchor point . I got a branch hooked up in a conifer one day and didn't realise until it sprang off ,hit me in the head and knocked me to the ground. Have you ever seen those cartoon characters with the bruise growing when they get bashed ,well it was just like that. That taught me a lesson that day to wear a hard hat as thought my day had come ..

I realy enjoy your work/ videos.. dogs and children and all ..

Dear Marty T. 👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always (video and work)! Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all of you.

in the 80s, my tirfor used to permanently lie on the back of the recovery truck, but one dark night, i needed it to winch a car on, 6 pumps, then BANG, it exploded + i lost the car... all the casing bolts had rattled out over time, me being too young + daft to notice this each day for 3yrs. got a new fangled electric winch to replace it, YAHOO... [never a fan of slow, hard work on a recovery] all the best for new year young man

Another great video from the Wizard. ❤

Great bits of kit, those style winches. Extremely capable and actually safe to have people hanging from. The original steel 'cage' that the rope was stored in was a right pain for catching on everything in sight. It is much easier to store your steel wire rope in a worn out road bike rear tyre.

You got yourself a very useful piece of equipment there, Marty! In the US they call these winches come along, for obvious reasons. BTW thx for all the fascinating videos and keep surprising us in the new year!

Simple, portable, should be good another 50yrs now.

Brought back a few memories - Used them a lot on the power-board in the 60's when we had to pole and erect subs cross country

Good work reviving a useful tool.

Quite a surprising performer for a winch that only has a friction hold on the cable.

I'm in awe of all the tree ferns. Cracking view.

Always very interesting Marty thanks for sharing 🦘

14:23 What an amazing, almost prehistoric rainforest! NZ is gorgeous!

Boy do you have some nice tree ferns at the back there. On the video I'd say the usual. That is: a welcome calm and interesting time that I wait for always.

Good rainy day job

Nice one mart brilliant bit of old Kit saved by the wizard of engineering

The Tirfors are incedible reliable tools. You need to use special steel cables, but then they are absolutely save. The original instruction says "oil generously", "too much oil never harms".

A very clean revision of the winch. It will definitely run again for years. You can hang your life on these things. When we were assembling the escalators in the shopping centers, we climbed up them and hung on them like monkeys under the roof and pulled the rope up again and changed the direction of pull. Those were the days...unimaginable given today's occupational health and safety requirements. It would be better to use grease instead of oil for such a total overhaul. Under no circumstances should you lubricate the plastic rollers with normal oil. This sticks together and causes the roll to block after a while. There is the same gooey mass as ON the rollers, which was clearly visible during disassembly. That's why use grease instead of oil, as it doesn't run onto and into the plastic rolls after a while. And another great and very interesting KZfaq film.

Marty and Family ! Wish you ALL THE BEST, -From Bermuda 32N64W.

As Marty wipes down the toothbrush and gently places it back in the bathroom before his wife misses it and wonders where her toothbrush is 😉 another great video thank you

To many levers and springs for some one like me to take apart, clean up and put to gather. So well done Marty

This takes me back to my Pioneer course back in the mid-90s when I was still in the Army. We had 2 types one might have been this one and the other was a T-35 from memory. We used them to make aerial ropeways (Army for flying fox) to be able to transfer stores, equipment and personnel across obstacles. We did it with telephone poles as the gin and shears to suspend it from. Key life lesson, never be the first guy to test the line as it always goes a lot faster than planned. The rover tires spaces over the line at the end are designed to slow down and cushion stores and equipment but offer bugger-all cushioning to people. We also used them for vehicle recovery

I have the same Tirfor- device and I use it when cutting trees . Greetings from Finland.

Some nice firewood in those Kanukas, Marty.

I just spent 7:53 minutes watching YOUR video and I had cup of coffee too! WELL PLAYED YOUNG JEDI, WELL PLAYED INDEED!!!!

Very cool tool and thanks for showing us the extensive cleaning which most of us may not have ever seen before.

Cute little tirfor. Never saw them in the army. They had them apparently. Discovered them in Building construction where we used 20 ton models that used a 1" or 1 1/4" cable . We were able to pull the big steel into position with them, when a footer was laid fractionally incorrect. Those ones would pull a D4 bulldozer up your tree, but they were riveted together and no way to service them really. Also had to keep them clean and dry!

That's quite the winch! Had you went out and bought a new one, I bet the winch would have given out long before the rotten tree stumps would have. Did a fine job on that.

Pretty cool that it is double acting, both swings create effort.

LoL Marty hangs jeeps off his Christmas tree instead of baubles 🤣 Thanks for all your great videos this year Marty all the best for you and your family next year! 😂❤

Had this exact model! When I was a member of the Canterbury Landrover Owner's Club this was a common winch used for recovery. This was the days when electric winches mounted on the front of vehicles was VERY exotic and fancy! I've buried many a spare tyre and used the TU-16 for recovery! Good memories!

It's a lovely bit of engineering and well worth the trouble you took to put it back in service. That's why I watch this channel.

I have a tirfor which hanging from my 18 wheeler at all times here in America. Used it once when I hit black ice and had to pull myself out of a rut

Ex Army dude here, the most brilliant manual winch ever invented, you can honestly crush a house using these. Slight issue is over oiling, thats just a sand and grit magnet. Running them with the lightest touch of lube works well. They stand the test of time now and will in a hundred years.

Marty I had a flashback when you started winching your jeep up the tree. I reembered a hilarious part of the movie" the gods must be crazy" when the fellow's jeep gets accidently winched up a tree. Thought for a moment maybe your winch would get stuck in the pull position and you would say "bugger" and tell us the next video would be you getting the jeep back down off the tree. 🙃🙃😊

It always amazes me that someone sat down and designed these things, probably had to re-design many times and then finally it just works as it was supposed to do, then Marty gets it all broken and makes it work again, magic.

Wonderful restoration work Marty.

Great find Marty . If your car gets stuck you can winch it out with ease , take care .

Hi Marty, yes handy bit of kit the old Tirfor, used many a one in my working days, adaptable in all sorts of ways. Many thanks from UK.

Didn’t need to be thrown away , just needed to thrown towards Marty T . Good Job Marty , 🎉Cheers !

Seasons Greetings to you and your family, Marty. Cheers from Sweden!

I bought one of those come alongs back in 1968 when I got my first Jeep. It’s still working like new and is a great piece of equipment to have. Those ultrasonic cleaners sure come in handy. I use mine more than my old parts cleaner. Good video

That thing is a beast! I reckon it'd pull just about anything that was stuck! Nice score!

Now you have two of them! Sweet!

Sounds like really dense wood in those trees!

Good restoration and will definetly be a good new tool for you! I like that the inspector came by with his popcycle to check your work!

Nice work you saved another ones scrap!

Tirfor 16 best hand operated cable winch going. Rated, as you said rated for 1600kgs dead lift, 2500kgs horizontal pull. Got me out many a bog and up rock ledges. Still going strong. Cheers

Good fix. Handy tool.

Looks like an exceptional piece of equipment. Much like a "Handy-Man" (HighLift) jack for those long-distance pulls!! Great video! You always have something different to show us. Love watching your channel!!

wow that ultrasonic cleaner worked great on those parts!

I’ve seen this before. Oh no I haven’t. That vid two years ago was the first tirfor restoration. Good to see he now has two of them.

I Think I've watched this one before, but had to watch again. A very complicated little so and so. Love it. Happy New Year to you and your Family.

Marty T either you got a great Memory on how to put things back together or you taped yourself taking it apart and went back to see....LOL any way its always great seeing you fix things...I always learn something.

I used Tirfor winches *we called them Tirfor Jacks for some reason) in the British Army, really useful tool for many apps.

Save a bit of work and get a faster pull by choking at where you can reach. Plenty enough power on trees that small. I’ve got a couple tirfor winches and an old Lewis chainsaw winch. Throw in a pulley or two and you can get some good power out of them. Nice job on the restoration!

As a suggestion, wash all parts in atf n diesel oil ,it helps the final lubricant adhere to all parts 😊.

You always give good content on your site 🎉

Love that scenery

I love the way you finish a project right up to the painting, much better than some of these utubers that leave stuff rusty. Also try to buy one of these new, two to four grand. Well worth fixing.

Happy New Year to you and your family Mart. I have enjoyed your 'MacGyver', type fixit video's over 2023. 👍🍻🍺🍺 Be safe, see you next year Mart. Bob. Lower Hutt.

Amazing how well those four little nylon rollers work to keep the mechanism sliding in the split-case. I can see how an annual bath in some mineral spirits can remove the sand, gunk and grit from the internals.

I didn't realise that Punga were so strong in their roots and stem!

Nice restoration. If you spread a small tarp, or piece of plastic, under the winch it will help to stop the ingress of dirt into the works.

One of my favorite year-end tasks at work is pulling the griphoists apart and cleaning them. ~10 years and they still haven't needed any replacement parts other than hundreds and hundreds of shear pins.

Thanks for bringing us along while you work in paradise. Happy New Year 🥳🎉

Thank you Marty. I wish I had a winch like that. So handy in the bush.😅

With Marty’s videos it feels like I can smell the metal and oil through the video. Love it, makes me feel like I’m in my workshop even tho I’m not 😂

very satisfying to watch, and your relaxed narration is a pleasure.

They used to be standard issue on the fire engines in the UK fire service. We used them on road accidents, animal rescues, etc. They can pull 2.5 tons.

Wonderful things Turfors! I had mine out yesterday to drag some Shipping containers around. I bought mine new about 50 years ago. Was interested to see what's inside. Thanks Marty.

Wow! I have one of those and will now attempt to restore knowing how powerful it is! It will be a real asset on our farm! Thanks for filming that!

She is a little beauty! ❤

Your videos are always so interesting. I've never seen a winch like that before. Thanks Mate.

Nice job Marty, smart little winch. Reminded me of cleaning my lever action rifles😉

For small trees where you can't really set a wedge you can split the back cut in two halves. Cut from either side, slightly over the middle overlapping a bit, but one side angled up so the two back cuts don't actually meet up. The resulting section of vertical fibers that connects the back cut is easy to break with the winch, but does stabilise the tree considerably. This avoids motion in the crown (dead limbs falling) or the tree starting to go before you are ready back at the winch. If the description is not clear I can dig up the video by the bavarian state forests, they have very good explanations on falling techniques.

Good Morning! Great video! WOW! Awesome project! i Love watching your videos.

rite call with ultrasonic! I think you should take out about 100 trees - space for yard, garden etc maybe do a solar array, maybe plants a few trees or do a small orchard etc the winch makes taking down older rotten trees much safer, good info on the piano hinge - all round good content with this one