Winch questions...

[Scarsman]

Originally Posted by HUMTECH

Ill give you my opinion, 9000lb warn will work in most situations as long as your smart enough to not completely bury your rig in a nasty hole(sometimes it will happen). But at least with the 9000 you should get out of most problems. More important dont go wheeling alone, this is the biggest rule of off roading. Also have a snatch block, straps, tree saver with the snatch block you can double line and increase your pull double.

That makes sense. I just saw everywhere the "GVW x 1.5 rule", but I kept thinking that is a massive winch! You never see 15,000 pound winches on anything hardly.

I am having problems with the "don't go wheeling alone" rule. For some reason I am the oddball in my family for this kind of stuff, and for some reason none of my friends or co-workers are into it either. And then my work schedule usually has me off during the week days and not on weekends. So I have learned through the years to be very carefull. It is hard sometimes to avoid the urge to try something I am "sure" I can make, but to not do it because of the slim chance I wont. I did cause my wife to have to walk out three miles with me once, and it has never happened again. I got my friend to bring his pavement princess out to pull me out. That was in my old Suburban which had like ten feet of overhang past the back wheels!