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Originally Posted by jasoncooperpcola

Mj glad it worked! But for $10 more you can get a Smittybilt. Actually they are on sale for $100 at 4wheeldriveparts. I was thinking about using an atv winch but it would be gone as fast as i got out of sight.

After tightening, I always weld the nuts to the bolts on my winches.. not for strength but for security. It's easy enough to burn the bolts off should I ever need to remove the winch, but I feel it makes a good deterrent to someone with an adjustable wrench and an evil intention.

Mj... Glad that winch worked out for you. Truthfully I never thought about using an ATV winch for my trailer, but I know that those Badlands winches are pretty good. My brother has one on his Jeep and it's pulled us out of several tight places when we are playing in the woods. You know I've been a proponent of electric winches for a long time here on the forums... They are safer, easier and faster than manual winches. Glad you saw the light..


As for connecting the trailer winch to the tow vehicle electric supply it's really not that hard. In both my Jeep and my Land Rover I ran a heavy (8 gauge I think) wire directly from the battery positive connector down, under my vehicle along the frame to a rear fender well... (Most vehicles have small holes drilled in them for vents, so I simply ran the wire up thru them into the rear compartment. Run a second wire to the vehicle's frame for ground. Attach a 50amp (not the 350 amp forklift connector) Anderson connector http://www.ebay.com/itm/50-AMP-Ander...item19d5d1b8da to the wires and a matching connector to the trailer winch wires and you're good to go. It's quick to simply lift the tailgate and plug the connectors together (it's impossible to plug them in backwards) to power up the winch. The whole thing takes less than 30 seconds.