It's a bit noisy, but no worse that cutting the end out of a 55 gallon steel drum with a Sawz-all. The noise is in the gears of the Super-Winch ATV winch motor I used as a prime mover. I guess those things are just noisy. Think electric drill or Skilsaw on steroids.
Stealth departure ... not!
I do enjoy pushing the button and seeing that big ol' handwheel do its
30 or 40 turns to raise and lower the boat. That'd be the handwheel for which I used to be the prime mover....
It goes up at about the same speed it goes down and the motor has no perceptible temperature rise after use, so I think it is handling the job with ease. I don't know how much current it's drawing (12 volts) but I'm pretty sure the breakers in the trolling motor circuit are 40 amps and they're holding. That's not much current for a 12 volt winch.
The fun part is the fishin', Ig! Now it is easy to go out for just
20 minutes if I want. If they're not bitin', I can come back, do something else for a while and go out again later. Fishin' and not catchin' for more than 30 minutes is boring as hell, but it is really fun when they're about jumpin' in the boat. Haven't had a single fishless day thus far this season, though I never fish for longer than
2 cold beers ... uh, 2 hours.. in one stretch.
Sounds good. I hope that you eat the fish that you catch. I fish with my son and take his friend along, I go to a place with very easy fishing (bluegills) so that they can enjoy it (5 and 4 years old).
Five posts and not a single one includes the original reference. It is nice when people have the common sense to snip non-topic material. It is frustrating when all posters snip everything so the post as no meaning.
It would be nice if one out of the five posters on this topic would have left a bit of information from the original post.
I used to take the neighbor kids fishing..then their mom decided she didnt want the kids playing with explosives.
Shrug
Gunner
The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence, and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years . It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints, and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.
Naw..I never use explosives when people are in the water.
Gunner
The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence, and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years . It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints, and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.
Almost entirely catch -and-release using artifical lures, though I will keep and clean a nice mess of hand-sized panfish on occasion. I'll keep a walleye over 15" and under 3 lb. Don't keep any bass. I fish mostly for bass and do OK at it some days.
I prefer a "run and gun" bass-tournament style of fishing to passive bobber- watching, though I don't fish tournaments. A tourney is 8 hours of intensely competitive hard work rather than an hour or two of fun.
The two styles can be combined. Last week I had two novices (Brits) in the boat to go fishin'. I did run 'n gun for 20 minutes or so to find fish. Go to a "spot", fish it fast for 5 minutes by casting an artifical lure we call "Mary's Magic Lure". I was lookin' for active aggressive fish, not occasional stragglers. No bumps, light up Mr. Johnson and head for the next spot at speed -- fun boatride. My trollin motor's back down and my lure's back in the water as soon as the boat comes off plane. And so on until I get bumps. I found fish in 20 minutes. Set 'em up with rods with bobbers and a bucket of panfish leeches, set bobber stops and they started fishin'. Ya can't beat live bait and bobbers *once on active fish*.
It was hilarious mayhem for the next hour and 15 minutes. I finally had to toss an anchor because I couldn't both manage the boat and help them unhook fish, rebait etc, nevermind fishing myself. One or both of them either had a fish on or was taking one off for the entire period. We'd stringer-sorted while fishing to keep about
15 of the biggest 'gills, had way plenty to feed 4 hungry adults. Hassan wasn't up for the knife 'n guts work so we set up at the end of the dock with him doing the scaling. He did a fine job of it.
My buddy Ted was razzing me, said "Foreman, I didn't think you even owned a knife." "Oh, golly, I do own a couple but I yust don't use 'em much ya know."
You can go fishing or take little kids fishing, not both at the same time. I enjoy both activities. Good for you for taking little kids fishing. You're doing it right -- make it their outing as well as yours, make sure they catch some fish, and don't stay too long.
Mom may not understand the distinction between boom in creek vs when kids were in creek.
Modern Moms are conditioned to think that life is or should be totally risk-free. A more practical parent would realize that her kid will eventually play with explosives anway if so inclined, so exposure to a mentor who can show them how to do it safely might not be a bad idea.
I'm not making this up. I was such a mentor in high school, at behest of several parents who knew damned well Ron, Bernard, et alia would make bombs and rockets one way or another so they said "OK if you do it with Foreman, otherwise we will hurt you even if your experiments don't."
Fifties approach to parenting. It worked. Nobody ever got hurt.
Thinking of boatlifts, does anyone have the URL for that gadget they put up in northern England recently? The problem was, how to get narrowboats from a canal into the adjacent river, given some 40ft difference in height, and a 90 degree approach. There's a pair of huge S-shaped frames, journalling a pair of water tanks. Open the gates, run your boat in, & the S-frames swing through
180 degrees: you're now at the other level. Afair, the whole thing was moved by a 22kW motor, doubtless most of the action is obtained by changing the water balance. A real beautiful piece of engineering.
Also if you press "h" with Agent you get a look at the headers to see what newsreader is being used. I knew that because I have been using Agent since version .56 and have a pretty low registration number for the paid version.
Thanks. I would be interested in some details if possible. I have been considering the same project. My lift has a large wheel which is turned by hand. It does have a brake so the lift stays up. I am considering using a 12 volt winch and taking a few wraps around the windup cylinder on the hand wheel to provide a brake. I would still need to lower the pontoon by hand but that goes pretty fast.
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:52:18 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Don Foreman quickly quoth:
Yeah, and they're also conditioned to feel that the gov't should protect them from everything. DAMNED sad, ain't it?
Excellent idea.
Goodonya, Mate.
Ayup. Dad taught me some basic physics (and both Mom and Dad taught me to think for myself) very early on and it helped me get away with a whole lot of...um, interesting and exciting things virtually unscathed.
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With most boatlifts the big handwheel is an integral part of the Weston brake. I wanted to retain that brake function for safety, and I wanted to retain the ability to operate the lift by hand if necessary. I modified a 12 volt winch to turn a sprocket rather than a drum, made a spacer to mount another sprocket on the handwheel, and made a mount to attach the motor to the lift housing. Don't have a photo of the finished job because I forgot my camera this trip.
Anyway, the motor drives the handwheel via a bicycle chain, up or down, at about 2 seconds per rev. To disengage, just swing the mount a few degrees to derail the chain off the sprocket so the handwheel can then be operated manually.
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