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It's kind of a fuzzy thing too. Dragging a 5k truck in neutral onto a car trailer is different than dragging a dead truck with a flat tire up a rockface which is different than dragging a truck that is helping out of the mud.Yeah, don't forget about all the junk loaded in the vehicle for a trip. Use that number rather than the empty weight of the truck as the measurement to work off of. Sure there is a margin of error built into the spec of the winch but the added weight is eating into that safety factor.
But wait, now your buddy just buried his 7k F-150...
And on top of all that, just because you can hang a 13k winch on your bumper that doesn't mean your bumper can take it either.
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