I have a question about this.
Mostly from playing more with cars than what you guys do, I’ve had trailers where a winch is mounted on the tongue of the trailer to pull a car on the trailer. I also had a homemade hitch extender with the vertical riser that had a second 2 inch receiver above it. It was like the $30 ones you can buy to pull a trailer with a bike rack above it, but it was 10 times more heavy duty. I used a receiver mount winch on top, which worked much better than the winch on the trailer. I also had two hooks and chains that I would run to the frame on both sides that were on sort of big turnbuckles so you could take any sway out of the extended hitch and also strengthen it. I think that thing still exists somewhere, but not in the shed of miracles.
But here’s my question, something I’ve thought of since I’ve been playing with four-wheel-drives, and wanting a winch on the front.
Is there a way, that makes sense, to route the cable from the winch in the front under the truck and out the back? The only downside would be for you mud runner guys, trying to route it when you’re hip deep in water. I was thinking of something like a couple of fairly heavy duty pulleys that had a flip up/flip down flat over them to keep the cable from jumping before you tend it up.
And an afterthought for all you not to charge through the woods. While you’re at it, putting a winch on the back, don’t you want to put one on each side too?