The invention aims at providing a small winch with excellent maintaining performance and a piece of elevator equipment capable of being effectively arranged and saving space. The winch (4) comprises a braked body (8), a brake device (9) and a motor frame (10), wherein a brake component (11) is pressed on the peripheral part (8a) of the braked body (8) through the brake device (9) so as to execute brake; a bearing component (17) with reacting force consists of the motor frame (10) so that the bearing component (17) with reacting force bears the friction force caused by the rotated braked body (8) when the brake component (11) presses the braked body (8).