Winch on Back Rack
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It is entirely possible to put a winch in the headache rack location.....yes.....location....about every tow truck has one there .....the old ever popular Holmes 440......it would take some work.....and a ****load of steel
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What in the world is "common sense"?
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Ok guys I see that you guys like capping on some of the less fortunate. After reading alot of or I should say all of your answers. I am kind of afraid to post mine. But here it goes. I was thinking about doing the same thing with my winch. The only thing that it would be pulling is my Harley. At best it would be some where between 1200 to 1500lb pull and that may be streaching it. My bike ways around 900lbs and I way close to 200. So thats 1100lbs. Now I have to pull it up the ramp so thats were I am get the 1500lb pull. So with extra support and brackets angled to the bed rails my worry would be, can my bed rails handle the stress. Or maybe I should run the supports to the bed? It will not get in the way of the flux capacitor. I have a 2012 f250 super duty with an 8 foot bed.
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This should be under a new thread, but if you use common sense and know the capabilities of your fabrication, anything is possible. 1500lb is a lot less than the 8-15000 that you might see in a vehicle pull.
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i would mount the winch as low to the floor of the bed as possible, directly to the frame preferably. then use a roller at the back of the bed floor edge.
it will stress the hell out of the bed rails if you mount it any other way. if you were talking about a $200 beater i would say go for it and beef the hell out of the rails. but you are talking about a $50,000 truck. do you really want to rip the bedrails off it?
it will stress the hell out of the bed rails if you mount it any other way. if you were talking about a $200 beater i would say go for it and beef the hell out of the rails. but you are talking about a $50,000 truck. do you really want to rip the bedrails off it?
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Your right I sure don't want to mess up my truck in any way. My first thought was to run it off a plate at the top of the bed rails as close to the cab as I could get with braces angling down to the bed. On paper that seemed the way to go. So I went to my local fabricator and he was willing to do it but he had one concern and that was the front tire of the bike. Dumb *** didn't even think of that. Went home messured the tire it would be 30inchs from the bed of truck to middle of window. So now I have to come up with somethig else.
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