Set up for your trailer's winch?
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What I did is put my rear bumper to use. Since I have hitch for towing my trailer I bolted a piece of 2"inside square tubing where a ball on the bumper would normally go and bolt my winch to a steel plate with a 2"outside square tubing so I can quickly pin and unpin with ease. For power I ran battery cables from my battery to the rear bumper with a quick connect plug. This way I can have my winch with any trailer I haul, but on the trailer I use the most I put a cable fairlead on the front witch works nice if you can't get backed into where ever to get a straight pull. Now this doesnt sound like a pretty setup but I did my best to make everything look "professional" and I'm happy with it all. Just to make it look better I did spend a little money and bought a piece of chrome plated tubing just to look better on the truck.
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A hand crank winch, mounted to the front of the trailer is what I have. Not enough for moving a vehicle onto the trailer - I damn near killed myself trying to winch up a golf car with 4 flat tires. Fortunately we had an aux winch (also hand cranked) in the toolbox. Between the two of them it worked.
Good to see how others do this!
Good to see how others do this!
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From: Diamond in the Rough, Oh
well the engineer in me came out. I got the winch and decided that this is the way I'm going to go.
It's going to cost some money but there is no reason for me to get a new car trailer, I know how it's going to be wired and I doubt anyone will need to use the trailer without my supervision.
It's going to cost some money but there is no reason for me to get a new car trailer, I know how it's going to be wired and I doubt anyone will need to use the trailer without my supervision.
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I have a 10000 lb Harbor Freight winch mounted to the front floor of my 18' car trailer. I leave the power cables wrapped around the winch. I keep the battery(for now) in the bed of the truck, then hook it up when needed. I just bought an old truck tool box off of Craigslist to put over the winch to see how I like that. However, I think the box may be too high and not look right on the front, plus would make me set the cars farther back on the trailer. Like I said, it has an 18' bed so I am not really too concerned with that at the moment. Just trying to get the best look out of the trailer with functionality.
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I have a 10000 lb Harbor Freight winch mounted to the front floor of my 18' car trailer. I leave the power cables wrapped around the winch. I keep the battery(for now) in the bed of the truck, then hook it up when needed. I just bought an old truck tool box off of Craigslist to put over the winch to see how I like that. However, I think the box may be too high and not look right on the front, plus would make me set the cars farther back on the trailer. Like I said, it has an 18' bed so I am not really too concerned with that at the moment. Just trying to get the best look out of the trailer with functionality.
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I bought a bumper receiver mount from Harbour Freight. They have two versions I got the heavier one. We flipped it over and mounted/welded it on the winch plate on trailer. I also bought the receiver winch mount from Harbour Freight. I then bought a 4,500 super winch off of amazon (Best price). I use two different deep cycle batteries to power it depending on what I am doing. This set-up is great because I can use it on trailer, tractor & truck all by sliding it in receiver mount. I wanted it universal so I can pull logs up over hill with tractor. I will say a pulley block is great to use on this set-up also.
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Subscribing me and my dad need a winch on our flatbed trailer so we don't have to keep doing this: SANY0085_zps26bae82e.mp4 video by redneckfordf250crew - Photobucket but that works good to. Haha.
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