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On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:02:14 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

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On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:23:34 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
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Seriously Don... Get to craigs list and get a 6 hp rototiller... Remove
the blade and have sombody bolt or weld a ball on the thing... Just find
one for a couple hundred bucks that is self propelled and look up
anybody locally with a set of end wrenches and a welder, another 35
dollars and maybe even a case of beer and you are golden...

I was really thinking you could make something.
Use something like a garage door opener motor for power. They are
usually gear head with a pretty good reduction and they end up with a
sprocket chain drive. These show up at garage sales and on Craigs List
for $20 or less.
Put a big sprocket gear on the wheel drive to get a little more
mechanical advantage.
Then is just a question of fabricating the dolly.

Garage door opener won't work, they won't pull that hard before the
safety mechanism cuts it out. I've got a 16' wooden door that is heavy
as hell, with two torsion springs to make it seem light enough to easily
pick up. One of the springs broke and the opener was useless. You can
hit your garage door opener, and when it's going up, grab the door and
it doesn't take very much effort at all to stop the opener. Springs are
adjusted properly when you can raise the door with the opener disengaged
and where ever you stop the door, it should stay.

I would just jumper out those switches


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Dang, Harbor freight.
http://www.harborfreight.com/automot...e/winches.html
Less than 1/2 the price of an old mechanical winch.