That >8,000 lb. winch is a waste of money.

I noticed that, too, lol.

He's here, as he's posting elsewhere.

I'd be able to forgive him if he simply came here and admitted that he doesn't have the 1st hand experience to legitimately claim that his original suggestion is not only practical, but safe. His idea stinks of a first year engineering student who's learned a couple statics or efficiency equations and thinks they universally apply to real world situations.

I'm certainly not immune to having an idea that gets shot down for reasons that I had not initially considered. But you're supposed to learn from those situations, not just turn tail and ghost the thread you started.

 

Doesn't even have the sack to admit he was wrong?
There's nothing wrong with owning up to your mistakes.

 

Yeah, but clearly every one else are obviously the ones making the mistakes. We should all apologize to him, as he is clearly the one with all the smarts.

 

well yeah, i would atleast secure the gas cans in the bed.

 

They were, I just took the photo after I dropped the tailgate. Boat doesn't run on hopes and dreams unfortunately.

 

Bottom line He can do all the rigging he wants as long as He does not Kill or injury someone else .

I can say i had my share of great ideas most times it was something so simple I over looked my Mom was great at pointing those flaws out.

 

Haha atv winch! I just skipped to the end to flame the OP who clearly has never been in real life situations.

Hey there, I’m stuck, let me get out the three snatch blocks and extra 200 feet of that expensive synthetic line and do some jigging up nonsense….

 

OP, must have watched the recent episode of a popular four wheel drive show where the host, with a straight face, said he was going to toss this 3000 lbf rated winch in back of his Jeep for off trail adventures and if necessary could use a snatch block for extra pull. Can’t fully blame the OP when the TV experts are saying stuff like that.

 

A capstan winch with 400 feet of rope, gas for the winch, pile of snatch blocks, pile of shackles, pile of heavy duty straps ... gonna have to leave everything else at home just to make room.

 

Damm, I just ordered a 10K Smittybilt X20

 

Wonder if the OPs winch idea would of worked for this. Pulling a 6k lb dead rig out of a v-notch and up a hill with extremely loose soil and rocks. BTW 9k HF winch took an absolute beating and it's still doing work very impressed with that chinesium stuff. It's all that winch had and I was digging hard as you can see with the tires in the second pic. This is why we put 9k+ winches on the front of our rigs OP and if you want some real world winch work come wheeling with the crowd I wheel with sometime. They get used hard and worked hard. Took almost 5 hrs to recover this rig we aren't gonna add another 6 hrs with some BS snatch blocks and a million feet of additional line extensions. It took 3 rigs to get this out and off the trail. No little SxS winch would of held up period!

 

I see there is some rain up in the Pacific North West, would be a great time to get some video @TomHGZ

 

Def return it and get an 3000lb ATV winch, duh, don't be such a dummy with all that straight line pulling power hahahahaaaaa

 

Take note here....... Jeep pulling Toyota ;-)

 

What's not pictured is a yota and jeep finishing pulling him out then 2 yotas pulling me out after I broke the tcase. That was a hell of a recovery that all the winches, vehicles, and people involved were beat after it was done

 

ya def should have used the OP’s technique, certainly would have gone ummm ‘differently’ lol

 

Found this thread, been reading for an hour and a half it's 1:00 a.m. and I have no answers I feel duped...

 

Must be new here, welcome to TW.

 

Haha thanks