Weighty winch

[ridgerunner]

Gonna install front and rear 2" receivers and wire both up for a winch and cradle. Thing is I already have two winches I can use. One is a heavy somebeech 12,000lb Promark with synthetic line I have set up for my Dodge 2500. It's already on a cradle but again very heavy, too heavy for the lil' ranger. I also have a smallish Warn 4,000lb winch I bought for the rear of my UTV just never installed it. I plan on buying an 8,000lb winch once the other mods I have planned for the ranger are paid for and installed (that will take time). So what do U think in the mean time? Will the 4,000lb be good enough to give me that extra tug I might need until more funds become available. I won't be mega off roading yet so I'm hoping I'll be OK. Yeah I know 1.5-2 times the weight of the vehicle to size the winch and the use of a snatch block will double the pulling capacity blah, blah, blah. Here is a pic of the Warn and big SOB Promark.

 

[bobbywalter]

12000 pound is what my ranger requires.....i am murdering my 8k winch....keep killing solonoids.


of course my fatty mcfatterton ranger weighs 6 k.

 

[martin]

If you don't totally bury yourself, the small winch, double wrapped will get you out (slowly), if your down to the door handles, all bets are off.

 

[ridgerunner]

12000 pound is what my ranger requires.....i am murdering my 8k winch....keep killing solonoids.


of course my fatty mcfatterton ranger weighs 6 k.

Yeah I might slap a big ole' winch on that awesome beast of yours too!

 

[86MUDRCJ]

If it was me then I would use the 12k just because when it comes to gettin unstuck waiting for someone to get you I would rather have the tool on hand, but that's my opinion. I would keep the little one for around the house stuff.

 

[Surrey]

The only real problem with a hitch receiver mounted winch is you have to be able to get the winch into place AFTER your ass is stuck. Often a less-than ideal thing to have to do, often entirely impossible.

I would stick the 12000 on the front of the Ranger permanently(at least until you get your 8000) and mount the 4000 on a receiver for the back.

 

[bobbywalter]

The only real problem with a hitch receiver mounted winch is you have to be able to get the winch into place AFTER your ass is stuck. Often a less-than ideal thing to have to do, often entirely impossible.

I would stick the 12000 on the front of the Ranger permanently(at least until you get your 8000) and mount the 4000 on a receiver for the back.

usually in those cases i use chain.


i had to do this many times over the years to use my winches on other trucks because of the crazy situations that made that the most workable solution.

 

[ridgerunner]

The only real problem with a hitch receiver mounted winch is you have to be able to get the winch into place AFTER your ass is stuck. Often a less-than ideal thing to have to do, often entirely impossible.

I would stick the 12000 on the front of the Ranger permanently(at least until you get your 8000) and mount the 4000 on a receiver for the back.

Not going to do any major offroading until I get a lift, lockers, tires and regear so I'm just hoping to get by until the funds are available to do what I want with a new winch. Anyway the 12,000lb winch has to stay with the 2500 cuz that thing is a real heavy beeoch to get unstuck! The 12,000lb on the cradle is about all I can pick up and carry too.

Now U got me thinking of putting the new 8-9,000lb on up front and carrying the 4,000lb on a cradle for the back in case I need to go backwards.
Hmmmm...still don't know what to do just yet. I'll probly wire up the rear and go out and give the 4,000lb winch a try to see just how much it will or will not pull. When I do that I'll post back on here on how it went. May be a few weeks anyway.