WARN 101575 Handheld Portable Drill Winch with 40 Foot Synthetic Rope: 750 lb Pulling Capacity , Gray

I have a rural piece of land and I’m cutting lots of trees and dragging the rounds uphill in carts. I have all kinds of winches: one on the truck, one on a UTV. But access is a problem. Sometimes it’s hard to get a vehicle mounted winch in tight places. So I got this drill winch.It works great! I literally take a cordless drill, tree strap and this thing and just walk in to any lifting situation. It’s light, portable and I can get creative. It’s pretty durable. The working bits are steel, and only the carrying handle and outside are plastic. Plus, the Warn brand is respected and I felt like it would be well built(even though I have no illusions, it’s probably not made in the USA). Still, it’s well built.The good:1) It’s light weight but pulls 750lbs…which is enough. You could probably pull more with pullies mechanical advantage but I wouldn’t for safety. Think of it as like having 2 strong buddies to help. It’s not for recovering cars. But it’s strong enough for manual tasks.2) The nylon rope is light and strong and easy on the hands(no sharp wire frays to cut you). It’s very small, compared to full car recovery (10,000#) nylon rope at about 3/8” thick or smaller. I don’t know where I’ll replace it when it eventually wears thin. But I understand the trade-off to make it light and portable. It’s 40 feet long, and small because it’s only rated to 750lbs.2) I use a Dewalt Impact driver that has a speed chuck with a socket attachment and 8mm(5/16”) socket to drive it. The manual recommends a standard drill with a regular chuck, but I found this awful. The regular chuck kept loosening and it’s an akwardly tight space to tighten the chuck. It kept loosening. Plus, my drill speed was much slower. The impact driver was much faster, smaller and made a better connection with the socket attachment.All in all, I’ve found a new favorite tool. I keep looking for other uses. Who doesn’t need more power from time to time? Especially because it’s so portable.

REVIEW❗️❗️After using this yesterday and today, I don’t know how I got along without it.. I’m building three larges pole barn doors for a customer .I always had to have help.It has a double track and with the brackets weighs about 90 pounds per section.I use this to lift each section up into place and also each door up ,from the ground to a vertical position. I am assuming they weigh around 400 pounds.It took 57 seconds to lift the door up with my drill on highThe price of this is actually as cheap as paying a person two days labor. It’s already paid for itself.❗️

Where have you been all my life?Not only did this save my back during hunting season - standing up tree stands, loading game into the truck bed with a simple board for a slide, but it made shorter work of a large wire fence demo when I did not have access to a tractor, and combined with some metal stakes, pulled trees to fall direction when felling.Get an axle strap to tether it to a tree and one pulley for another strap and you can solve all kinds of issues with this thing. I was powering it with a 4amh 20v Dewalt and it would work for hours. I even used it to lift an inflatable boat into my attic. FWIW - get a spare section of cable/string. My shows wear, it has not failed, but for a few more bucks I've got it in the truck box to either add run, or replace it should it pop.The retention clip on the hook was done in the first couple of hours but I did not miss it.

I love these witches. They work great, and can be used anywhere (as long as you have your drill)

This drill winch has been a game-changer for me on my rural property. With multiple winches for tree cutting and uphill hauling, the drill winch's compact size is perfect for tight spots where vehicle-mounted winches can't reach. Highly recommend it for anyone facing access challenges like mine!

After reading several reviews, I was worried this winch would be really slow, but if you have a high torque and high RPM drill, it's pretty fast. The ratio of shaft revolutions to spool/drum revolutions is 77.6 to 1 so, with my 3,250 RPM cordless drill, I was getting 41.9 spool/drum revolutions per minute. The drum has a 1.79" diameter when empty so, that would translate into a circumference of 5.625" or about 19.6 FPM with no load. The spooling speed would increase as you spool up since the spooling wire rope (which has a diameter of 5/32 diameter) would add almost an inch to the circumference of the drum per full wrap layer. So, due to drum/spool circumference increasing, if you use a 3,250 RPM drill and no load, the first 8.44' of pull on a fully extended rope would have a 19.62 FPM progress rate; the next 9.91' would have a 23.05 FPM rate and the last 11.38' would progress at 26.47 FPM. Pretty fast for a winch powered by a drill.Of course, since there's no such thing as a free lunch in physics, as the speed increases, the maximum pull force decreases by the same percentage. So, the pull force would be reduced with each step up in drum/spool circumference. The first 8.44' would pull the rated max rate of 500 lbs; the next 9.91' would pull 17.5% less or 412.72 lbs; the next 11.38' would pull 14.9% less or 351.39 lbs. If you needed to pull a load for the full length of the rope, you'd need to make sure that the load didn't exceed the maximum pull forces allowed over the entire length of the pull. For example, you could pull a load of 500 lbs for the first 8.44' and then have your winch's load protector clutch disengage the motor when the circumference stepped up since that load would exceed the allowable load maximum of 412.72 lbs. So, if I need to pull something that will place a constant load on the rope for the full length of the rope (30'), I shouldn't exceed 350 lbs in order to avoid the load limiter disengaging the motor when it reaches the last 11.38' of the pull. I could always use a snatch block to double all load numbers at the expense of halving the winch's maximum pull distance to 15' and reducing its pull speed (FPM) by half as well.Basically, if you're planning to pull a constant load on a fully extended, single line for no more than 8.4', it needs to be no more than 500 lbs, if pulling it farther than 8.4', but no more than 18.3' then the load needs to be no more than 413 lbs and if you're doing a full 30' line length pull, you can't exceed 350 lbs.Some reviewers seem to think that the winch won't pull a rolling object if that object weighs more than the winch's 500 lb load limit, but obviously pulling something is different than vertically lifting it. Depending upon incline and friction, this winch could easily pull a rolling object that far exceeds 500 lbs as long as that object doesn't impose greater than 500 lbs of load on the winch. Now, if you intend to ignore the manufacturer's warnings and use this winch as a hoist for vertical lifting, then yes, a 500 lb object would be the limit you could lift (and only 8.44').Of course, your mileage may vary depending upon your load weight, but I'm horizontally pulling about half the rated weight on a single line for 20', it's only taking a minute to get the job done and the load limiter has never engaged since I'm well inside the max load limits for that distance. I don't know about you, but I can certainly spare a minute to avoid having to use my muscles to pull 250 lbs for 20'.