Need help to decide what winch to get

[IOPort51]

I have the official , optional Warn snatch block. slows things down a bit but it does make 8000 into 16000. You just gotta love the laws of physics.

[Phreak]

Those are great picks.. you have anymore...
Nothing like a Jeep earning its money on the trails.. lol

[BajaEdition]

of trail work, or of my old TJ ?

[BajaEdition]

here


and here


and here we drained this water crossing


to line the bottom with rocks and protect the stream


then undamned it and let it flow again, this was another requested project

[BajaEdition]

our rock crawling game that day


yes that is insane crossing a rock garden dragging that, but fun

this is the way into that trail
it is closed because of a fire 2 years ago, we try to keep this fence up but guys trash it, we are rebuilding the trail in quite s few places as well as removing what are called deadfalls, trees that need to be cut down because they were killed by the fire. We hope the trail will be opened this spring, the club has put thousands of manhours into repairs overseen by the Forest Service to keep this trail a black diamond trail and we are fiercely proud of our work,

[BajaEdition]

getting back to the original question
During the course of that project We have moved tons of rocks both big and small, we have paved 2 water crossings with cobble stone sized rocks to protect them from erosion. We have cleared more trees than we can remember to count, using winches a lot, we have built one nice rock garden and moved some huge boulders to protect areas and keep visitors on trail. a major washout of a trail on a cliff area was shored up using grabion cages with tons of rocks secured to the face with long hand driven spikes and then had a forestry bull dozer repair the road above. Thousands of hours of manpower, and there has been a lot of winch work. hours and hours of winch work.
Some of the rocks we have moved we needed multible winches and custom rigging using tackle. It has been a long project and I will answer this question about what winch.
Stars of the project have been 9000 and 9500 pound Warn winches.
I used my T max on weekend because I had taken the JK in there and it was stellar, but I do not believe it has the guts of a Warn, we have used a few Smitty built's of which one burnt out. A Mile Marker has fried also.
Whenever we had a major load, the Warn guys lined up first and really abused their winches and never did one fall by the wayside.
If you were to ask me a brand of winch to buy, I will point to Warn every time as I see them abused and just shake it off.
The true question you should ask is, if I was really stuck, and needed to get out by myself, how much is a bullet proof winch worth?
At that moment a 1000 dollar winch is kinda cheap knowing you can depend on it.

OK let everyone flame me over this post now. I still will stand behind it.

as a side note, I went over to synthetic line 4 years ago, and have pulled side by side with cable over the length of this project, I still have my original synth lines on, I gave three cables to guys who tore their cables to pieces on this project. I figured they were just taking up space in my garage. I also believe firmly in Synthetic line.

[coldwater]

Originally Posted by IOPort51 I have the official , optional Warn snatch block. slows things down a bit but it does make 8000 into 16000. You just gotta love the laws of physics.

Exactly what I do. If the time comes when I need more grunt, rather than doubling the cost of my winch, I bought a $50 block and double the line. Case closed for me.

[mredjeep]

Agree...The 8000 Warn stand up is Nice.It is faster than other winches.

Makes a difference when you are in a Bad spot!