What Winch To Buy?

[captbud]

Great info , lots of reading need to replace my winch cable , thanks for info

[thelostjs]

On 11/20/2022 at 1:22 PM, JustRandy said:

 

I had to know because a camping trailer I built used a winch and battery with no charging system that lowered itself down the side of a mountain for camping then needed enough battery capacity to lift itself back out after the weekend, so I had to find the most efficient winch.

 

wow what is strong enough to anchor a load like that???

and randy will you please take some pictures specifically of the house style plug wiring and of the trailer you use for dirt ?

I'm also interested in how you load the dirt into the trailer.

I've been using a harbor freight 2500 and the line is achingly slow but the keychain is awesome and it has worked for all 10mins total ive needed it in the 2 years ive owned it!

Edited June 27, 2023 by thelostjs

[JustRandy]

On 6/27/2023 at 1:07 AM, thelostjs said:

wow what is strong enough to anchor a load like that???

I used a tree on the other side of the trail to back it down the hill about 20 ft then hooked up a static cable while I reroute the winch cable to another tree to continue backing it down the 200ft hill to the campsite.

On 6/27/2023 at 1:07 AM, thelostjs said:

and randy will you please take some pictures specifically of the house style plug wiring and of the trailer you use for dirt ?

It's just a house style outdoor receptacle with 2 outlets.  One is connected to the battery for charging and the other to the winch controller.  I can plug in the rear winch to pull logs or plug in the trailer to dump loads and use the same controller for both.

On 6/27/2023 at 1:07 AM, thelostjs said:

I'm also interested in how you load the dirt into the trailer.

I built one of these https://cadplans.com/collections/diggers