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12V electric winch wanted for 8N

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Kenster

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I've a hankering for a winch to mount on the front bumper of my 52 8N with 12v electrics. Something that could pull logs out of the woods where the tractor can't go. Maybe pull a dead tractor up onto a trailer, etc.

I can't imagine pulling anything heavier than the tractor itself so what size winch should I look for? Brand name? I don't want to hard wire it to the tractor. How do they hook up? Do you just clamp the wires onto the battery?

Thanks.

Ken
 
To bad your not closer to me. I have one that would fit your bill. I has a 6000lbs rolling pull and a 2000lbs dead pull has 10 foot remote cable and it clips to the battery with charger type clips. As for mounting if you have a ball on your front bumper it has a plate you drop on that ball. Easy on easy off in less then 5 minutes.
 
I have one I bought for my 4x4 truck,3000 lb dead wt.it can be hardwired,or clamp-on.Bought it at Harbor freight,don't remember how much I paid for it,but it's worth whatever it was [something like49.99] it will really pull!!---lha
 
Thanks. I don't think I need a tremendously powerful one. There is nowhere on my property where I could bury the tractor in mud. I just want to do some minor log pulling and possibly pull it up on a low trailer.
 
If you have a front bumper, put a 2" ball on it. You can buy a little 1500 or 2K winch from Bass Pro or Harbor Freight for about 60 bucks. It has a little bracket that goes over the trailer ball and hooks up with alligator clips to the battery. Therefore, its portable. I was skeptical, but I got one and it works fabulously.
 
(quoted from post at 14:09:59 06/13/10) If you have a front bumper, put a 2" ball on it. You can buy a little 1500 or 2K winch from Bass Pro or Harbor Freight for about 60 bucks. It has a little bracket that goes over the trailer ball and hooks up with alligator clips to the battery. Therefore, its portable. I was skeptical, but I got one and it works fabulously.
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Tractorfix, that sounds about perfect but is it strong enough to pull an 8N up on a trailer? That is pretty much the heaviest duty it would ever see. I've only had to do that once before and we used a come-along. A winch should make it a lot easier, eh?
 
(quoted from post at 15:58:40 06/13/10) it'll pull your N up the trailer no sweat. If you loop it back thru a pulley block, it will hang your N in a tree
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So, if I have the winch on the tractor bumper I can hook it to the front of the trailer and it will pull itself up okay. But... if I chain a pulley block to the front of the trailer and run the cable through it and back to the tractor, it will pull itself up a lot easier?

Is that right?
 
Yessir Kenster I used that method yrs ago in the oil field trucking I was doig and if I used a pulley like he is talking about I could do twice the work weight wise. We called it a Snatch block setup. I would take the pin out of a big snatch block pulley and put the cale though it and return the pin etc and hook it to the side of my trailer etc and run the cable off the winch drum to whatever I want to load and bring it right on up to the bed and up some timbers to the top of the bed and that was it. just put a chain on it and head for the house. Really you can do quite a bit of work with a small winch if you can help the winch out a little like that. Saves a lot of money in the buying part also. Devious
 
I had a 4 tonner Warn on my old Bronco and it saved me
more than once. You can double the pull power with a
snatch block, but it takes twice as much winch line, which
limits how far you can pull in one hitch.
 
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