Trap Puller

[trophywife]

tried my buddies endurance, asked i it came with ear muffs... wow that was annoyingly loud.

 

[vetteman]

Size of the wheel will impact on retrieval speed, obviously, in conjunction with the rpm's of the wheel. Bigger the wheel, faster the line comes in.
On the one I built (based on a Cdn Tire ATV winch) the wheel is about 10 inch diameter and it pulls about 40-50 feet a minute.
A bit quicker might be nice, but not sure I would want it to be a lot faster because you still want to have time to coil the rope as it comes in.
If you have the rpm of the winch, multiply that by the circumference of the wheel you want to try [circumference = diameter x 3.1414).

Ace Line Haulers quote up to 110 feet per minute, Brutus 85 feet per minute.
Nobody has complained about coiling the rope being a problem so perhaps it is not.

My Brutus+40 pulls 2 prawn traps,6 lbs of lead in each trap and a 6 # weight just up from the traps with 600' of line in 4 1/2 to 5 minutes.Thats 120 fpm minute or better.I don't use the round commercial traps but the black ones that I've seen marketed as the Black Beauty.Very little water resistance with these traps as I've pulled both types for years by hand(Never Again)and the commercial traps are a lot harder to pull.
My partner uses round commercial traps with 8 lbs of lead up from the traps and pulls pretty close to 100 fpm.
Nice and quiet as well.
Dave