winch mount
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If you want a detachable mount, I would get one of those front receiver hitches you can buy. You can use it to mount your winch, plus you can use the hitch to mount a frame to haul a canoe, long pieces of pipe, or whatever.
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Warn makes good ones. But none of them are stong enough to handle heavy side pulls like 1/2 the times pulls are. I put a transformer system on my 150. works great, mounted lights and heavy hooks to it. Very nice setup.
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Here's one example
http://www.hitches-forless.com/front...mount_main.htm
I just did a search for "front mount receiver hitch" on yahoo and saw many sites. I don't know what year truck you have, but I noticed the few I looked at are for the newer trucks. If you look hard enough you may find one for an earlier truck, or if you are like me and have your own welder or a friend who can weld, you could make one fit your frame.
http://www.hitches-forless.com/front...mount_main.htm
I just did a search for "front mount receiver hitch" on yahoo and saw many sites. I don't know what year truck you have, but I noticed the few I looked at are for the newer trucks. If you look hard enough you may find one for an earlier truck, or if you are like me and have your own welder or a friend who can weld, you could make one fit your frame.
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I will check that out and yes I do have a wire welder and thought about welding one on to the front myself. My truck is a 2000 f150. Thanks a bunch. I am going to do that search right now. If you think of something else let me know.
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You are right, there are plenty front mounts on the web. Do the receiver ends stick out and look ugly when the winch plate is removed?
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I don't know exactly, but I clicked on that link in my previous post, and if you look carefully at the white explorer(I think that's what it is), you can barely see it sticking out the front with one of those receiver plugs stuck in the end.
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