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#11
yes, you really have to use your brain when winching!
Make sure everything is going to hold the load, and then some. The last thing you want to do is get a medivac ride out of the bush with a hook and piece of cable hanging out of your head....
Actually did something kind of similar last fall, bunch of us were out getting the trucks stuck. One of the guys was winching me out, but had a strap hooked to my truck, which he winched off of. Long story short, strap broke, hook tried to go through his windshied and smack him in the face...
The outcome.... Note the cable wrapped all around the truck and the hook neatly planted into the windshield just to the passenger side of the cowl!
Make sure everything is going to hold the load, and then some. The last thing you want to do is get a medivac ride out of the bush with a hook and piece of cable hanging out of your head....
Actually did something kind of similar last fall, bunch of us were out getting the trucks stuck. One of the guys was winching me out, but had a strap hooked to my truck, which he winched off of. Long story short, strap broke, hook tried to go through his windshied and smack him in the face...
The outcome.... Note the cable wrapped all around the truck and the hook neatly planted into the windshield just to the passenger side of the cowl!
#12
Warn 8274's on the Jeep and on the old F250.
Warn 16.5ti on the shop truck.
Warn XT30 on the quad.
I use MasterPull synthetic line....no complaints.
I've grown up with Warn winches, being as they're local to us in the PacNW most people up here run them, but there are other great brands, too.
Warn 16.5ti on the shop truck.
Warn XT30 on the quad.
I use MasterPull synthetic line....no complaints.
I've grown up with Warn winches, being as they're local to us in the PacNW most people up here run them, but there are other great brands, too.
#13
I believe you will find Mile marker winch's are good Warn winch's are good and there is this Discount house that sells UBER Generic winches..HS or something I don't know why I can't think of it off hand.
Those are the exact same parts from the exact same factory as mile marker as I have been told. Except the switch..I have heard the fuses blow..
My only real experience with winching is a 12k warn pulled my old short bed half ton chev with a 350 and 1 ton axles np (gm 14 in the rear dana 60 in the front) BUT My opinion (which are like @$$holes just less usefull sometimes) if given the choice would you rather think..I think I have enough or ...Watch out I have this handled..
Those are the exact same parts from the exact same factory as mile marker as I have been told. Except the switch..I have heard the fuses blow..
My only real experience with winching is a 12k warn pulled my old short bed half ton chev with a 350 and 1 ton axles np (gm 14 in the rear dana 60 in the front) BUT My opinion (which are like @$$holes just less usefull sometimes) if given the choice would you rather think..I think I have enough or ...Watch out I have this handled..
#14
alright i might go with a mile marker... prob like a 12k?? it says on there website that they make winches for the humvee... so if its good enough for the army... its prob good enough for me haha... oh should i get a electric or Hydraulic?? im kinda leaning toward hydraulic.... ny thoughts???
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