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OSCAR 428 LIFT CABLE
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Your Hud-Son Saw Mill comes with a manual winch lift system. This system is spooled
with a 5/32" steel cable that is used in combination with the winch to lift and lower the
saw mill cutting head. The pictures below will help you in the event you need to re-install
a cable. Material:
Continue to route secondary cable to un-used cable pulley
on operator's side of mill. Route cable over this pulley and
down through eye bolt on mill head.
Fig. 1 winch cable routing
Lift cable is fastened to outside plate of winch and fed
through plate and around spool in a clockwise direction
(from operator side perspective) 1 ½ times so that the cable
comes off the top of the winch and around the first pulley
located on the outside of the cage and then is routed across
the width of mill.
Continue to run winch cable from first cable pulley across
the mill and over cable pulley nearest the lift tube and
down and around eyebolt mounted to mill cutting head.
Attach secondary lift cable
(68"/56") to winch cable. Make
sure there is a spacing of 1"
from cable pulley mounting
bracket on discharge side of
the mill and cable clamp.
Proceed to route cable over the
pulley and around.
Fig. 3 secondary lift cable
routing
Fig. 4 secondary lift cable routing
To eye bolt
1”
• All cable is 5/32" steel cable
• 130" of cable is installed on the winch and wound around the lift bale at the time of
delivery
• Two 86" sections of cable are spooled around the lift bale and then run through a
pulley system on the mill head and back to an eye bolt located on the top side
member of your saw mill