WinslowS
1/2 ton status
I got an 8000lb Comealong from Northern Tool for under 40 bucks the other day. That and some chains, and you are set.
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I need a winch and i dont have any $$$
- Thread starter twoslo4five0
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I know its a crazy concept, but you do not have to have every accessory to go wheeling. Always go with at least one other truck and a strap is all you will need
I agree 100%. I started out with a come a long and never got a winch until I needed one and could afford one. I see more and more people not wheeling their trucks because they don't have every thing they think they need.
How could you ever know if you need it or not if the truck never been off road?
I agree 100%. I started out with a come a long and never got a winch until I needed one and could afford one. I see more and more people not wheeling their trucks because they don't have every thing they think they need.
How could you ever know if you need it or not if the truck never been off road?
good point...but i just found a really good deal on one...im one of thoose guys who has a spare for a spare and everything always goes wrong so i guess i like to be prepared for the worst to happen cause it always seems to...
see im getting a cheap kinda junky winch for a good price but it will only be used for the one event...if i dont break it or dont even use it,it will be getting mounted on the front of my trailer and then i can get a good one!!
MattK
1/2 ton status
I went a good while without a winch, but I'm glad I have one now. As the truck becomes more capable, another rig isn't always gonna be able to get in a position to get me out.
mabye im just stupid but are you talking about a high lift jack???that would be kinda hard to use if you were hung on a rock...79k20350 said:
Big91RustyBucket
1/2 ton status
You can use a hi lift as a winch . it is how they are designed.
yep I would definitly get a hi lift right now. My buddy and I used one to winch his jeep out of a water hole for three hours!! We got the jeep out and got a good workout too
here's a pic, thats me at the back workin the hi-lift
here's a pic, thats me at the back workin the hi-lift
Big91RustyBucket
1/2 ton status
muddermilitia said:yep I would definitly get a hi lift right now. My buddy and I used one to winch his jeep out of a water hole for three hours!! We got the jeep out and got a good workout too
here's a pic, thats me at the back workin the hi-lift
But you got it out. Sometime's you gotta do what ya gotta do.
twoslo4five0 said:
I have used a hi-lift countless times when I was hung on a rock. A winch will drag you off something but a hi-lift will lift you off it. In the pic I posted I was high centered and had broken a u-joint in the front shaft. I put my hi-lift under the winch frame and jacked it up. backed the truck up and I was free. A winch in the front would not have helped.
The picture is deceiving. I was standing uphill from the truck. under the passnger side is a huge rock.
thebird00
1/2 ton status
I'm running a Warn 16.5ti and 50% of the time I winch, I still have to break out the hi-lift jack. I winch does amazing things, but in a bad hole alot of times you still need to lift a tire to cram stuck under it. My hi-lift got a ton of use before i got my winch.
Most of my winching has been to aid others. 90% of the times I needed to use it for my own assistance, it was up ledges and long uphill, steep off-camber pulls. Several of those were this past Tellico Run. Full 150 ft cable pulls on my 8274 were required twice. Once for me, the other through a snatch block to assist "Sarasotausmc" up Slickrock after a heavy rain.
Sidenote; both my solenoid packs went out recently at Tellico from age and abuse. I popped a tire off the bead around 5:00 AM with the truck lodged against a mud bank. "Gotlabs" used his highlift to "winch" the truck away from the bank and hold it there so I could access the tire. I used mine to lift the front end to change the tire.
Twice before that previous day/night I needed winch help to keep the dirty side down. My rear winch was connected by snatch block to my roll cage to prevent my rollover early on and "clarkjw24" used his winch, shackled to my roll cage, again to prevent my woof-woof, rollover.
Sidenote; both my solenoid packs went out recently at Tellico from age and abuse. I popped a tire off the bead around 5:00 AM with the truck lodged against a mud bank. "Gotlabs" used his highlift to "winch" the truck away from the bank and hold it there so I could access the tire. I used mine to lift the front end to change the tire.
Twice before that previous day/night I needed winch help to keep the dirty side down. My rear winch was connected by snatch block to my roll cage to prevent my rollover early on and "clarkjw24" used his winch, shackled to my roll cage, again to prevent my woof-woof, rollover.
TruckNutzDude
1/2 ton status
I have a milemarker 12K electric on my rig. My most recent stuck was driving up a washout and finding a 6 foot deep sink hole at the top with both 44" rear tires. Here's a pic showing the high lift getting some of the frame out of the dirt since the rear tires weren't touching anything and putting my front tires back on the ground because I was pivoting on my cab corners.
Yeah that's a sink hole alright.
i have a warn 8274 on the front of my blazer i have used it three times in the 6 months its been on there but its there if i need it i allso have a 9,000
pound one i want to put on the rear
the three times i used it
with a snatch block hooked to the front of a trailer letting a ford with no brakes roll off the trailer
moving some 8x8 20 foot long skids around
and winching the poles down on my buddies gen pole truck
i live in wyoming not much around here to hook a winch to to pull myself out
when i go out i like to go with at least one other truck and its faster to just hook up straps mine is about the stongest 4x4 out of me and my buddies its the only one with front and rear lockers so i spend most of the time pullin them out
pound one i want to put on the rear
the three times i used it
with a snatch block hooked to the front of a trailer letting a ford with no brakes roll off the trailer
moving some 8x8 20 foot long skids around
and winching the poles down on my buddies gen pole truck
i live in wyoming not much around here to hook a winch to to pull myself out
when i go out i like to go with at least one other truck and its faster to just hook up straps mine is about the stongest 4x4 out of me and my buddies its the only one with front and rear lockers so i spend most of the time pullin them out
