Remote for a winch?

[cgarr]

I have a HF 110 volt winch in my hangar to pull the plane back inside but it has a hand held hard wired control. I want a wireless, like garage door opener controller to operate it. HF sells a 12V winch with a car type remote that works nice or our car hauler, I want this type of remote on my 110V winch, any add on things out there like this??

[fingpilot]

I know they sell IR remotes for appliances / TV, that kind of stuff. So long as the amps were in spec, or you rig a relay setup, that would do the job.

So it's tough steering and wing walking while holding the wired remote, huh?

[cgarr]

I need a remote that will work forward and reverse, its mainly for when I feed out the cable, I could make the hard wired control longer but I hate wires all over..

[dad911]

http://www.attf.com/wire1.htm

[Porsche_monkey]

This is a typical 'crane' application. But I expect they would be redundant controls for safety, and not economical.

http://www.remtron.com/crane.asp

[Tim Hancock]

That airplane is not THAT heavy Craig.... Man up and drag it in like god intended when he invented tail-draggers. Of course this is coming from a guy who has fell on his arse more than once on an ice patch while pulling a measely 300 lb homebuilt.