Lightest winch with 8k+ pulling capacity

The lightest solution has been here all along!
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/that-8-000-lb-winch-is-a-waste-of-money.682105/

 

There were numbers on it, but not those numbers. Website doesn't say anything either.

 

haha....give me the sparknotes version. No way am I trudging through the usual TW discord for 42 pages! OP's initial post makes sense, but it does seem like a lot could go wrong.

 

bahaha. About how I assumed it went. And stop posting pictures of me, it's awkward!

 

I actually use my winch fairly regularly and his solution is completely impractical for pretty much every pull in the real world and not someone's imagination. Like sometimes whatever rigging was necessary already used all of my line and an extension, what am I just supposed to carry 4 extra entire winch lines with me? Also real world winching can involve a lot of repositioning and resetting to get the angles right. It'd literally take all day if you had to do 4 times as much rigging

Also I actually use my winch for moving fallen trees out of the way more often than actually recoveries(you said you're in the PNW, you'll get use out of it that way too), to rig things to pull the tree off the road I need to park at an angle, run a snatch block to another tree off in the woods in the direction I need to pull and then run it to a drag chain on the fallen one, what I'm going to run multiple drag chains to multiple snatch blocks lol? Plus I've done it like 5 times on a single road.

 

Just for posterity: finished getting the truck aligned today after adding the Relentless Stingray/Warn M8k-s setup - about 150 lbs added to the front dropped me an inch on the Bilstein 6112 600lb springs. Went up to the Bilstein HD springs and got back to pre-winch height, with a smoother ride.

That Sherpa looks like a damn good bargain winch for the money. I'd look at those and Come Up if I hadn't come across the eBay deal on the Warn.