winch for a trailer
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From: Marengo, Iowa
winch for a trailer
Ok, I have one of the cheapy winchesfor my trailer, and it does ok for cars, but strains. For trucks, I have to help it with a come along. I also am using a ****** block, without it, the winch couldn't handle it at all. So what I am looking at is what winch will be able to pull the average light truck on without being over worked. I have no issues with continuing to use the ****** block, and unfortunately, budget is slim. Brand isn't important, what is important to me is that it can do the job. I'm not up to these hand pulls anymore... Every so often I have to pull something that doesn't roll so well, wrecks and such, or stuck tires, so I need to know what would work. $3-500 is about what I can spend.
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From: Senoia, GA
ok well tell us exactly what kind of trailer (as in how steep are the ramps and how long is the deck and all that) and what kind of winch do you have now?
i would say a 8,000lb cheapey would do the job, but i am not sure
-cutts-
i would say a 8,000lb cheapey would do the job, but i am not sure
-cutts-
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What's with this Tabor . . . is it really Warn or are they just playing the name game? Price wasn't too bad: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Warn-...46879007QQrdZ1
Seems even the used Warn winches go for pretty big money. 'Course you could always use the winch you have now and just use a couple ****** blocks.
There's no problem you can't fix with enough pulleys.
Seems even the used Warn winches go for pretty big money. 'Course you could always use the winch you have now and just use a couple ****** blocks.
There's no problem you can't fix with enough pulleys.
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
i have a 9,000lb Ramsey planetary gear drive mounted on the front deck of my trailer. i have yet to find anything it will not drag out of the woods and up onto the trailer.
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From: Elkhart IN
if it was me, and i had some cash, id save up for a whinch for the truck, mount it on a reciever, and then just weld a reiciever to the trailer, just move it as you need it. how are you powering it?
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Well, the plan is to be able to move it, as I actually need it for 2 trailers, but both have a fairly gentle angle, 5' long ramps for about a 2' rise. (one is 2 car, one is single) I plan on making the winch moveable, because I don't want to leave it out in the weather to try and make it last longer. My truck doesn't have a receiver, it is an ag hitch, with the moveable tongue. I will likely have to use a battery close to the winch, and then run a charge wire to it.
One problem I have with my current winch is that the power leads are shorted out in the plug, I would have to totally bypass the plug to make it work again... it was a wimpy thing, couldn't pull a 3500# car on straight line, even though it was rated at 4000#, threw the over heat breaker on it. It was a Harbor Freight special... It has done ok, but I need to get a little better.
One problem I have with my current winch is that the power leads are shorted out in the plug, I would have to totally bypass the plug to make it work again... it was a wimpy thing, couldn't pull a 3500# car on straight line, even though it was rated at 4000#, threw the over heat breaker on it. It was a Harbor Freight special... It has done ok, but I need to get a little better.
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From: west plains spokane,wa
I got a 9000lb Tabor winch for a christmas present last year. I had some of the covers off during the install, all the parts I could see said warn on them.
It's pulled my 97 psd out of the snow and mud a couple times this year, just
pulled out a dodge 1500 out last weekend. So far so good.
It's pulled my 97 psd out of the snow and mud a couple times this year, just
pulled out a dodge 1500 out last weekend. So far so good.
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From: E.Lincoln County, NC
Our tilt deck trailer built in 1984 with a 8000 lb Warn. If you can hook to it, it will drag it!
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...arTrailer1.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...arTrailer1.jpg
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From: NE Wisconsin
I knew a guy who had an 8 hp briggs hooked to a studabaker 3sp with a wormgear drive drum on his trailer. Don't know what he NEEDED it for but you could pull a bulldozer on there if you had axles to hold it and about 5hrs to do it in.
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From: Senoia, GA
lol yea i would too!
i have decided i am going to make a receiver mount for my 8274 and build reciver hitches for our trailers. then i can use it on my truck and any of our trailers as well as being out of sight/out of mind and out of the weather!
-cutts-
i have decided i am going to make a receiver mount for my 8274 and build reciver hitches for our trailers. then i can use it on my truck and any of our trailers as well as being out of sight/out of mind and out of the weather!
-cutts-