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Old May 4, 2009 | 09:48 PM
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What would be a good price for a winch cable 3/8x100 in good condition
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:01 PM
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what kind of cable is it? you can go with the cheap stuff and kill yourself or you can go with the good cable that lubricates itself. I use a wrecker to recover wrecks for a living make sure you know what your buying. The recovery truck I use has a 9000 lb cable on it and with ****** blocks I can double less weight
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:08 PM
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Yeah I'm not incredibly knowledge about this stuff but make sure it doesn't have a nylon core or anything. Also does the seller give you a load rating?
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:09 PM
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It came off of a 7500 lb winch I think its a mile marker
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:24 PM
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not knowing the type of cable you could safely pull 10,000lb single line
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:32 PM
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What was that cable doing on a 7500# winch. It should be rated for 10,000#
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:32 PM
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Any idea of what its worth
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by jaybo86
Any idea of what its worth
no but you could go to mile maker winch sight and look up the price new and go from there
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by 4.3L XJ
What was that cable doing on a 7500# winch. It should be rated for 10,000#
I have no clue
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Old May 4, 2009 | 10:46 PM
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winch capacity has nothing to do with cable strength
you just don't want to have 5000lb cable on a 7500 winch
you can have a bigger cable but if you go to big you will loose capacity for length of cable you can have


89 bucks new
http://www.truckspring.com/winch-cab...19-50020c.html
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Old May 5, 2009 | 09:47 AM
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I recently bought 100 feet of 5/16 winch cable with the hook and the roller farelead for $75. Matt, you are a gentleman and scholar and there are darn few of us left in the world.
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