Coming from a 15+ year owner of a Tow truck company and have done many recovery jobs a good way to lose some teeth is standing right in line with the winch cable while under load with a big smile on your face. Trust me when you think it's no big deal and it's only a 3000lbs vehicle your winching and that cable lets go ,it can ruin your day real quick. Stand off to the side or you might as well change the channels name to UTTG , the extra T is for toothless lol.
"Cheap crap". I know guys that won't buy "cheap crap" tools. I tell them that's fine it is their money but the way they (or I, even though I have built my own engines etc) is actually _light duty_ 9999 times out of 10000. Am I spending my car hobby budget on tools that cost four times as much and are sexy sweet pro tools? NO! I am buying good enough tools that are fine for the way I use them, save me money, and if I need to bend a wrench or smash something with a hammer or make a spanner out of a socket I just do it, and i don't "ruin" a sexy sweet pro tool. My goal is the car, not an orgasmic tool box.
I once "snapped" a 3/8 ratchet which was my only tool that fit a tiny space, busted three knuckles and couldn't work for over a week. Sometimes it's worth it to get the heavier duty stuff, but 8/10 times light is more than enough
Back in the 80s I needed a stubby socket wrench for a tight area so I picked up a metrinch brand socket wrench. friend repeatedly gave me a hard time bought buying that cheap wrench. I was helping my son put away tools after rebuilding his XJ motor last month. Asked if he could steal the stubby wrench he had been using. Told him, after I send a picture to an old friend. captioned "family heirloom"
Of course, ironically, this is what every awesome toolbox ends up looking like. A bunch of hacked up customized tools that work perfectly together while looking like carved up junk
Americans have Harbour Freight, in Canada we have Princess Auto. Also a lot of cheap Chinesium crap, but sometimes you can find a diamond in the rough.
I bought one of those winches about 20 years ago. I love ot. I keep it in my wife's mudder 89 Trooper. I've used it several times to pull that Trooper out of the mud.
The smile on your face when you showed us the clip of you loading up your new purchase says it all, lol. Cool idea, and congrats on the new purchase. If I had the room, I'd adopt a fleet of XJ's. My favourite vehicle of all time, it's just a great little machine.
Doesn't really sound (literally) like something that will be handed down through the generations. I'd reserve buying a second 'till he beats on this one a little.
Dude, that thing is SLOW! And you should probably wear ear protection while using it (for hours) to pull your stuff 20 or 30 feet. LOL! Take care, Uncle Tony. Love ya, man!
Uncle Tony,I've been doing that for 40 years in my current and former shops. I anchored it in the slab opposite of over head door. Can use snatch block to get more power😎😎😎
Can you imagine how slow that winch would be if the cable was doubled? Talk about using the whole day to move one car! Doubling works great with a faster winch like I suspect you have.
Could you PLEASE use a lead weighted blanket or something else like that to hang on the winch line? You know that cable isn't the best one. If it snaps, the weighted blanket won't let it fly away and kill you. I use synthetic ropes on my whiches because I saw one snap and rip through an early FJ40 thankfully, no one was in it
100%. I understood this setup worked once but using something like that repeatedly for a job way way outside its intended use is bound to end badly. Pulling an XJ up an incline has got to be double or triple the force of pulling a 2,000 boat through water.
The speed isn't a bug, it's a feature - you just need a way to jam the go switch on like a binder clip spring or something. It's actually great - hook it up, light one up, and as you smoke your cylinder of choice you can walk around the thing as it crawls where you want it. Casually walk around it, eyeball it, occasionally move other crap out of the way. Pop open the captain's door and tweak the steering a little bit. close her up. Go answer that damn spam call and tell them to fornicate themselves. Go back and check on the steering. Give the wheel that final oomph to get it lined up for the whatever you gotta do and whatever you got to do it with. Wait for it to creep to the exact couple thou that you want it on the dial indicator you had plenty of time to set up after you searched for that damn bic you set down.... deeper in your pocket, to relight up after yelling at the scammer. Go around to the remote and pop off the binder clip. Your smoke is probably done. Now to ash it and get to work.
I rigged up a bumper mount winch in a bay for the same reason. I mounted the winch with a hitch tube, then welded some square tubing to frame that would pin to a plate that I bolted to the concrete. That way I could remove the winch when it wasnt needed. Worked great when I needed to pull doa cars in by myself
15 years ago I used a model like that to winch a 3/4 ton chevy onto a trailer. The truck had completely frozen brakes on all 4 corners. We had the winch wired into the power from the trailer wire attachment so we had a full 13 volts. It labored like crazy, but it did it. Little trooper. Lol.
I went to a chain farm supply store and purchased a 5000# trailer winch and welded it to a drop hitch. Then purchased 2 RV camper bumper receiver plate kits and bolted 1 to the floor in the shop and 1 on the trailer so i can use it where its needed.
If you have an enclosed car hauler, the mount that drops over the hitch will also drop over a normal flip up tie down ring in the trailer floor. Then just stick a piece of all thread, a screwdriver or a small pry bar thru the ring to hold it on. When you're done just take it loose and stick the winch out of the way in the front corner of the trailer. I've been using one for about 4 years and the only issue I've had is the cable tends to get "wadded" up due to not having a moving guide before the spool.
I've had one for a few years and have done a couple of mods to it. I mostly work alone so it's a great tool to have around. Too bad I can't post pics here but I added a cheap universal wireless controller which is great when I'm at the load end or if I don't want to be near the winch lol. Also built a u-shaped steel bracket with a tow-ball welded to it. The bracket simply slides over the front frame of the trailer for quick and easy attachment of the winch. My next mod was going to be replacing the steel cable with a synthetic rope for the ease of use and less weight.
I've had one of those winches for years, even made couple copies of the mounting plate in 1/2 steel and welded to front of all my little utility trailers, so just have one winch in the truck toolbox and can just use it with any of my trailers, it ain't fast but sure saves the back and knees loading up broken equipment I buy at auctions, even pulled a 7k lb tractor onto a buddies trailer with it and a snatch block, again not fast but way better than pushing by hand. The factory plate even helped me a few years ago during an ice storm when I slid into a ditch, just hooked it on my tow hitch and pulled my truck back onto the road.
Tony I think this is an awesome idea, I ended up buying the Badlands electric winch, its rated for 2500lbs and came with a remote that had a key chain, it's marketed for quads. I mounted it to my tow dolley then ran #6 wire back to the battery on my truck with alligator clips. It works great, I've also ran it off a jump box, and a marine battery, if you want the model number I can get it for you. The best part is I sit in the car and use the wireless remote to run the winch, then steer it right onto my tow dolley.
A friend has a 2500 pound winch bolted to the wall in his shop, where he can pull 4 wheelers in and lift them if needed. Has an old car battery he keeps a trickle charger on.
Hey Tony, if you are going to get another one, get the one with the wireless remote, then you can sit in the car and guide it into the garage. I just bolted mine to the floor and it works great. Thank you for your time and knowledge. Roll up your windows
I did something similar I put a masonry anchor in my garage floor so I can hook a winch and pull cars up a sloped driveway and into the garage you have to do these kind of things when you work by yourself. Just have to say that thing is loud . I use a pullzaw much quieter 120 volts
I do the same with a 3500 lb atv winch and a snatch block to multiply the pull. My trailer is a tilting deck that gos over center when the front tires get half way. Pulled up many full size trucks twice the speed.
If running a bigger winch on a trailer, I'd sacrifice a set of good heavy jumper cables to run to the back of the tow vehicle, and put a forklift battery quick disconnect on it. Set the trailer up with a battery and matching disconnect, and you have more power for the winch, which should make it last longer. And you have an onboard jump start for the tow vehicle.
I bought mine at Harbor Freight about 17 years ago for $39.95 and I'm still using it. I've probably pulled a hundred cars onto my trailer including a 74 455 Lesabre with a snatch block. I've used a garden tractor battery to power it. The remote is long shot and the black clutch tightening knob broke last year, but i can still make it work. I got a good laugh when I saw Uncle Tony featuring it.
1. After changing the coil and ICM in my MJ I went to start it, and forgot I left it in gear. Buzz killed! 2. Slow and steady wins the race! 3. Harbor Freight tools get a bad rap but for no more money than you spend on them, they are a pretty good value. Speaking of my MJ it's eventually getting an 8,000# Badland winch behind the front bumper, and a 4,000# Badland behind the rear.
I just checked the specs on that winch. Too bad the cable isn't about 20' longer. That way, you could've used a snatch block and doubled up the line while pulling the Jeep onto the trailer. It wouldn't make it any faster but, it would basically double the pulling power making the winch work less. Either way, for $90, you can't go wrong.
My shop entrance is almost identical to yours UTG and I used one of these for a couple years doing exactly the same thing. Then I found the 120v HF winch at a yard sale for 10 bucks (I didn't even know they made it at the time) and that's what I use now if I don't want to use the tractor. Works Great, but they are both really slow, but if you have the time, they are WELL worth the money!
I bought one of these 20 years ago after a harrowing experience pulling a car onto a trailer on the side of a busy road three feet at a time using a high lift jack. The winch and the hitch plate have matching bolt holes that you can use to keep the plate from sliding off the winch. You can also make a fixed mounting point just about anywhere with 3/8 mushroom headed bolts and it all fits neatly into a kitty litter bucket along with a snatch block and an extension cable.
If you want it to go slower, use a snatch block at the vehicle. You'll pull twice as much at half speed. My winch is a 3 ton hand cranked winch salvaged off of a WWII truck. It is about the same speed as yours. Good Luck, Rick
My freind had one of those on his boat,worked well, so I got a cheap Atv winch mounted a square hitch to it and put it in the tow bar hitch ,great for the money, thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones
Agree 100% had one for about ten years. The beauty is in the ball, as you point out. I don't have trailer, rather a dolly, works just as well for loading one of them. Also mounted a ball in the front of my pickup bed, up high, use it to pull stuff up ramps into the bed of the truck. Add a better model of pickup crane, and you're ready for anything. You can't let it lay, it will booger up the cable, you have to kind of guide the spooling, trust me!
A friend bought one of these a few years back to raise and his anchor while fishing on the river. Worked great, I bought on for the Buck Pole at my hunting camp
That's a really nice setup. Even if it is "Chinesium crap". I have a similar situation, with a steep, but only 4" rise to my shop. Enough to stop one person just pushing the car in. This seems to do the job fine. The hitch adapter is the deal maker here. I bought a 2500Lb winch for my trailer, and knockers everywhere kept telling me "that's not big enough, I need a 4000Lb minimum blah blah blah." What they don't understand, is that hauling a car onto a trailer, you're not exerting the entire weight of the car, if you put a scale on the cable, you might be using 1,500Lbs force at the most, it's a rolling object, not lifting a dead weight. Admittedly mine's a bit faster, but it cost quite a bit more.
If you add a couple of snatchblock pulleys to your set up the winch won't be working as hard on a straight pull and you can move larger items. Still won't be fast, but you'll be able to pull a lot larger vehicle if need be.
I mounted an ATV winch in me old van, made a simple towbar out of a 2X4 and all thread to tow my motorcycles up into the back of the van. Cheap China awesome, worked every time for years. :) I love solutions like this.
Now I have a tiny railside trailer I tow behind my Mustang GT so, I just ride the bike up into the chock but, I did love that little winch. It was a 2000 pound winch too, apparently.
Have had one for years (different brand, but same thing also from HF - it was Chicago brand back then). Bought it after a friend recommended one (he's had his even longer). They're cheap, and they work!
Watching this reminded me of the time I had to repair a bent dock railing that had been ripped out of the curb. The only thing I had to push it into place and hold it was my truck. So I pushed it into place, poured new concrete around the base. Then I literally had to sit and watch concrete dry until I could move the truck.
I used a winch like that for a decade, pulling tractors and various power equipment up ramps into a pick up truck bed. Often daisy chained ratchet straps to extend it.
yep had mine for years mainly used it to drag cars up on trailers ramps , and in to buildings ,,these days i use it to raise my small wind turbines ,the only thing that broke was the plastic coller and the stop lock
Cheap tools get the job done too. I worked for a few years out of an old beat up Fingerhut kit my Grandma bought me. I still have it as a throw in the trunk or back of the truck kit. I have since got to where I can spend a little more on tools(NOT THE STUPID EXPENSIVE BIG NAMES) but will never forget where I started.
Tony I couldn’t stop laughing watching it nearly not move hahah I hope you keep the winch segments in as a future character, and I like how it does work but the lack of speed is so funny
I have a 2000 winch from there it was a four wheeler winch made a frame bolted the winch to made it portable out was 29.99 mounted the silinodes to it done what I wanted to do slow but saved my back from being slow . you should have hooked up to large Marge and taste it.😅😅😅
I bet you can increase the pull power of electrics with turning the hand crank at the same time. Hopefully the wire holds, dyneema rope is a good improvement for any winch
I went with a cheap Chinese model when I got a full normal electric one for my car trailer and it's been awesome, only thing I did was pack it with more grease bc it came loud. Came with 2 wireless remotes and the usual 25ft corded one plus a mounting plate for about as much as a brand name mounting plate
I'm becoming suspicious that you're avoiding building Kiwi's Hemi... 🤣 Wee winch looks reasonably handy, especially with the manual handle attachment. Could be good for hoisting out (or in) engines... Maybe even a Hemi...
I've never seen a winch that slow 😂 surprised that you didn't get charged an extra "storage fee" when you were loading up the trailer for taking up parking space lol. Last one I bought from harbor freight lasted several years before getting water in the gearbox and freezing busting it. Well worth the money to save my old back
Get a receiver that bolts to a trucks bumper. Bolt it to the floor back by the wall. get some square stock and weld it to the bracket. When you need the winch you just pin it in the receiver and go.
I have used one similar to yours, it was my buddys, pulled a Tahoe, we started pulling and it bogged down just like yours did when it hit a hard spot I had him stop so I could put one sheave in to make it a two part line instead of a one part and it made it a lot better. He gave me shit the whole time until we hit a hard spot made a big diff. He didn't say a thing after that.
I've had one for a few years, yes its slower than snail snot but when its 118 degrees in Texas its 10000% better than a come a long. I've drug some locked up vehicles up on the trailer, it takes a while and it does get hot but the darn things will pull.
The voltage drop on those tiny cables must be huge, you might want to cut them short and add larger gauge jumper cables. This thing is neat though, I am considering buying one for my friend's suzuki samurai. I have their older generation 12000lb badland winch on my ZJ and it's a beast. Pulled many stumps out with it and some snatch blocks. Got me out of mud when I was buried up to the axles. I'm actually assembling a custom lithium battery bank for it because my lead acid starting batteries have only been lasting a year since I started using it and that's with a larger 160 amp alternator (It will pull 360A under full load).
It's supposed to go over a reese hitch of a car over the bumper ball so you may want to like have some kind of Reese hitch hooked up to the wall in there where you can put that over the ball on the receiver
MORR uses this brand quite heavily, they seem to be pretty good. I have an old Warn from a Power Wagon that works for me just fine for the moment. If that thing conks out, I'll probably get a Badlands to replace it.
At first I laughed and laughed. But after a while I was getting bored and the sun was going down. I sped up the video speed. Still to slow. So I threw in the towel. But hopefully Tony gets that jeep inside before his retirement. 😂
The Trolls: “No wonder Tony doesn’t get stuff done he’s still waiting for that winch to move his cars”
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Coming from a 15+ year owner of a Tow truck company and have done many recovery jobs a good way to lose some teeth is standing right in line with the winch cable while under load with a big smile on your face. Trust me when you think it's no big deal and it's only a 3000lbs vehicle your winching and that cable lets go ,it can ruin your day real quick. Stand off to the side or you might as well change the channels name to UTTG , the extra T is for toothless lol.
I was thinking the exact same thing but when I looked again he was standing off to the side remotely operating the winch…
That, and have someone in the car because if it does break it's gonna roll into the street.
Tony reminds me of being a teenager 🙂 Thank You Uncle Tony !
"Cheap crap". I know guys that won't buy "cheap crap" tools. I tell them that's fine it is their money but the way they (or I, even though I have built my own engines etc) is actually _light duty_ 9999 times out of 10000. Am I spending my car hobby budget on tools that cost four times as much and are sexy sweet pro tools? NO! I am buying good enough tools that are fine for the way I use them, save me money, and if I need to bend a wrench or smash something with a hammer or make a spanner out of a socket I just do it, and i don't "ruin" a sexy sweet pro tool. My goal is the car, not an orgasmic tool box.
I once "snapped" a 3/8 ratchet which was my only tool that fit a tiny space, busted three knuckles and couldn't work for over a week.
Sometimes it's worth it to get the heavier duty stuff, but 8/10 times light is more than enough
@@AlejandroRamirez-vl8mr tight space, 3/8 drive and you snapped it? Why'd you use a wrench you're strong enough to just use your thumb and forefinger
Back in the 80s I needed a stubby socket wrench for a tight area so I picked up a metrinch brand socket wrench. friend repeatedly gave me a hard time bought buying that cheap wrench. I was helping my son put away tools after rebuilding his XJ motor last month. Asked if he could steal the stubby wrench he had been using. Told him, after I send a picture to an old friend. captioned "family heirloom"
Of course, ironically, this is what every awesome toolbox ends up looking like. A bunch of hacked up customized tools that work perfectly together while looking like carved up junk
I'm one of those guys who won't waste money on Harbor Freight I got burned too many times 😞😊
I did the same thing for my motorcycle rescue trailer. It's working smarter instead of harder.
They're great. I have one. Handy when you need it.
You should literally drag race this winch pulling this Jeep vs a snail.
Americans have Harbour Freight, in Canada we have Princess Auto. Also a lot of cheap Chinesium crap, but sometimes you can find a diamond in the rough.
Harbor freight doesn’t have the cool surplus section. I’ve never been to a princess auto but have discussed it with some Canadian friends.
I bought one of those winches about 20 years ago. I love ot. I keep it in my wife's mudder 89 Trooper. I've used it several times to pull that Trooper out of the mud.
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Try an ATV winch instead. Build the simple universal mount bracket. Easy. Still dirt cheap. Much faster.
Time is money.
The smile on your face when you showed us the clip of you loading up your new purchase says it all, lol. Cool idea, and congrats on the new purchase. If I had the room, I'd adopt a fleet of XJ's. My favourite vehicle of all time, it's just a great little machine.
Jeepers, creepers. let's see how many pulls it lasts.
Doesn't really sound (literally) like something that will be handed down through the generations. I'd reserve buying a second 'till he beats on this one a little.
Dude, that thing is SLOW! And you should probably wear ear protection while using it (for hours) to pull your stuff 20 or 30 feet. LOL! Take care, Uncle Tony. Love ya, man!
If your landlord would allow it ,Mount the winch plate to the floor with concrete anchors ,That’s what I did in my shop
Uncle Tony,I've been doing that for 40 years in my current and former shops. I anchored it in the slab opposite of over head door. Can use snatch block to get more power😎😎😎
Can you imagine how slow that winch would be if the cable was doubled? Talk about using the whole day to move one car! Doubling works great with a faster winch like I suspect you have.
Getting quite the fleet of Jeeps Uncle Tony 😊😊😊😊
Get a heavy fire blanket to drape over the cable in case it snaps.
Could you PLEASE use a lead weighted blanket or something else like that to hang on the winch line? You know that cable isn't the best one. If it snaps, the weighted blanket won't let it fly away and kill you. I use synthetic ropes on my whiches because I saw one snap and rip through an early FJ40 thankfully, no one was in it
100%. I understood this setup worked once but using something like that repeatedly for a job way way outside its intended use is bound to end badly. Pulling an XJ up an incline has got to be double or triple the force of pulling a 2,000 boat through water.
Glad to see the glasses aren't sitting at a 45° angle this time. Also a nice used/bad tire on the front bumper is a nice tool for pushing a vehicle
Uncle Tony at his best.
The speed isn't a bug, it's a feature - you just need a way to jam the go switch on like a binder clip spring or something. It's actually great - hook it up, light one up, and as you smoke your cylinder of choice you can walk around the thing as it crawls where you want it. Casually walk around it, eyeball it, occasionally move other crap out of the way. Pop open the captain's door and tweak the steering a little bit. close her up. Go answer that damn spam call and tell them to fornicate themselves. Go back and check on the steering. Give the wheel that final oomph to get it lined up for the whatever you gotta do and whatever you got to do it with. Wait for it to creep to the exact couple thou that you want it on the dial indicator you had plenty of time to set up after you searched for that damn bic you set down.... deeper in your pocket, to relight up after yelling at the scammer. Go around to the remote and pop off the binder clip. Your smoke is probably done. Now to ash it and get to work.
Got a good laugh out of the dial indicator part😂
You can use a cordless drill or cordless impact where the crank handle is and its about twice as fast tony! Works well, try it
Not a bad little piece of kit!!!
I rigged up a bumper mount winch in a bay for the same reason. I mounted the winch with a hitch tube, then welded some square tubing to frame that would pin to a plate that I bolted to the concrete. That way I could remove the winch when it wasnt needed. Worked great when I needed to pull doa cars in by myself
15 years ago I used a model like that to winch a 3/4 ton chevy onto a trailer. The truck had completely frozen brakes on all 4 corners. We had the winch wired into the power from the trailer wire attachment so we had a full 13 volts. It labored like crazy, but it did it. Little trooper. Lol.
This time of year, my grass grows faster than that.
That's the slow winch to China, alright. I was young when that thing started pulling. 👻
I went to a chain farm supply store and purchased a 5000# trailer winch and welded it to a drop hitch. Then purchased 2 RV camper bumper receiver plate kits and bolted 1 to the floor in the shop and 1 on the trailer so i can use it where its needed.
If you have an enclosed car hauler, the mount that drops over the hitch will also drop over a normal flip up tie down ring in the trailer floor. Then just stick a piece of all thread, a screwdriver or a small pry bar thru the ring to hold it on. When you're done just take it loose and stick the winch out of the way in the front corner of the trailer. I've been using one for about 4 years and the only issue I've had is the cable tends to get "wadded" up due to not having a moving guide before the spool.
I've had one for a few years and have done a couple of mods to it. I mostly work alone so it's a great tool to have around. Too bad I can't post pics here but I added a cheap universal wireless controller which is great when I'm at the load end or if I don't want to be near the winch lol. Also built a u-shaped steel bracket with a tow-ball welded to it. The bracket simply slides over the front frame of the trailer for quick and easy attachment of the winch. My next mod was going to be replacing the steel cable with a synthetic rope for the ease of use and less weight.
I've had one of those winches for years, even made couple copies of the mounting plate in 1/2 steel and welded to front of all my little utility trailers, so just have one winch in the truck toolbox and can just use it with any of my trailers, it ain't fast but sure saves the back and knees loading up broken equipment I buy at auctions, even pulled a 7k lb tractor onto a buddies trailer with it and a snatch block, again not fast but way better than pushing by hand.
The factory plate even helped me a few years ago during an ice storm when I slid into a ditch, just hooked it on my tow hitch and pulled my truck back onto the road.
Tony I think this is an awesome idea, I ended up buying the Badlands electric winch, its rated for 2500lbs and came with a remote that had a key chain, it's marketed for quads. I mounted it to my tow dolley then ran #6 wire back to the battery on my truck with alligator clips. It works great, I've also ran it off a jump box, and a marine battery, if you want the model number I can get it for you. The best part is I sit in the car and use the wireless remote to run the winch, then steer it right onto my tow dolley.
A friend has a 2500 pound winch bolted to the wall in his shop, where he can pull 4 wheelers in and lift them if needed. Has an old car battery he keeps a trickle charger on.
Speed wise, is it much faster? I could use something like this load loading and unloaded a ToyHauler, they have pretty steep ramps.
@TD_YT066 yes it loads pretty damn quick
Hey Tony, if you are going to get another one, get the one with the wireless remote, then you can sit in the car and guide it into the garage. I just bolted mine to the floor and it works great. Thank you for your time and knowledge. Roll up your windows
i use a hand crank boat winch all the time to move vehicles, lift engines, etc. good video
I've had mine for twenty years, it has never won any races but it always works
I did something similar I put a masonry anchor in my garage floor so I can hook a winch and pull cars up a sloped driveway and into the garage you have to do these kind of things when you work by yourself. Just have to say that thing is loud . I use a pullzaw much quieter 120 volts
I do the same with a 3500 lb atv winch and a snatch block to multiply the pull. My trailer is a tilting deck that gos over center when the front tires get half way. Pulled up many full size trucks twice the speed.
If running a bigger winch on a trailer, I'd sacrifice a set of good heavy jumper cables to run to the back of the tow vehicle, and put a forklift battery quick disconnect on it. Set the trailer up with a battery and matching disconnect, and you have more power for the winch, which should make it last longer.
And you have an onboard jump start for the tow vehicle.
Well that's pretty cool! I toyed with the idea of putting a regular winch on my trailer, but this is much more versatile. Thanks!
I bought mine at Harbor Freight about 17 years ago for $39.95 and I'm still using it. I've probably pulled a hundred cars onto my trailer including a 74 455 Lesabre with a snatch block. I've used a garden tractor battery to power it. The remote is long shot and the black clutch tightening knob broke last year, but i can still make it work. I got a good laugh when I saw Uncle Tony featuring it.
Slow and steady wins the race! Just don’t stand anywhere in the trajectory of that cable if it decides to let go…
1. After changing the coil and ICM in my MJ I went to start it, and forgot I left it in gear. Buzz killed! 2. Slow and steady wins the race! 3. Harbor Freight tools get a bad rap but for no more money than you spend on them, they are a pretty good value. Speaking of my MJ it's eventually getting an 8,000# Badland winch behind the front bumper, and a 4,000# Badland behind the rear.
I just checked the specs on that winch. Too bad the cable isn't about 20' longer. That way, you could've used a snatch block and doubled up the line while pulling the Jeep onto the trailer. It wouldn't make it any faster but, it would basically double the pulling power making the winch work less. Either way, for $90, you can't go wrong.
Had one of those boat winches on the front of my cj7 and it saved my stuck as5 more than once
My shop entrance is almost identical to yours UTG and I used one of these for a couple years doing exactly the same thing. Then I found the 120v HF winch at a yard sale for 10 bucks (I didn't even know they made it at the time) and that's what I use now if I don't want to use the tractor. Works Great, but they are both really slow, but if you have the time, they are WELL worth the money!
Lets talk about mopar wiring and electrical....
I bought one of these 20 years ago after a harrowing experience pulling a car onto a trailer on the side of a busy road three feet at a time using a high lift jack. The winch and the hitch plate have matching bolt holes that you can use to keep the plate from sliding off the winch. You can also make a fixed mounting point just about anywhere with 3/8 mushroom headed bolts and it all fits neatly into a kitty litter bucket along with a snatch block and an extension cable.
There is no such thing as unbiased journalism anymore
Thats an unbiased opinion.
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If you want it to go slower, use a snatch block at the vehicle. You'll pull twice as much at half speed. My winch is a 3 ton hand cranked winch salvaged off of a WWII truck. It is about the same speed as yours. Good Luck, Rick
My freind had one of those on his boat,worked well, so I got a cheap Atv winch mounted a square hitch to it and put it in the tow bar hitch ,great for the money, thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones
Maybe add an anchor point at the front of the garage so you can run a pulley on the winch line and double your speed.
Agree 100% had one for about ten years. The beauty is in the ball, as you point out. I don't have trailer, rather a dolly, works just as well for loading one of them. Also mounted a ball in the front of my pickup bed, up high, use it to pull stuff up ramps into the bed of the truck. Add a better model of pickup crane, and you're ready for anything. You can't let it lay, it will booger up the cable, you have to kind of guide the spooling, trust me!
You are a kid with a new toy just like all the car guys with new things 😊😊😊😊😊
That cable snaps and you're toast...
my finger would be hurting from holding the button for that long!
I would go crazy waiting for it to work. If that was mine, you bet I would keep a C-clamp with that remote at all times
A friend bought one of these a few years back to raise and his anchor while fishing on the river.
Worked great, I bought on for the Buck Pole at my hunting camp
Thanks UT! I can see at least 1 of these beauties in my immediate future! 😀👍😉
That's a really nice setup. Even if it is "Chinesium crap". I have a similar situation, with a steep, but only 4" rise to my shop. Enough to stop one person just pushing the car in. This seems to do the job fine. The hitch adapter is the deal maker here.
I bought a 2500Lb winch for my trailer, and knockers everywhere kept telling me "that's not big enough, I need a 4000Lb minimum blah blah blah." What they don't understand, is that hauling a car onto a trailer, you're not exerting the entire weight of the car, if you put a scale on the cable, you might be using 1,500Lbs force at the most, it's a rolling object, not lifting a dead weight. Admittedly mine's a bit faster, but it cost quite a bit more.
Hi Welcome to Uncle XJ's Garage!
If you add a couple of snatchblock pulleys to your set up the winch won't be working as hard on a straight pull and you can move larger items. Still won't be fast, but you'll be able to pull a lot larger vehicle if need be.
I mounted an ATV winch in me old van, made a simple towbar out of a 2X4 and all thread to tow my motorcycles up into the back of the van. Cheap China awesome, worked every time for years. :) I love solutions like this.
Now I have a tiny railside trailer I tow behind my Mustang GT so, I just ride the bike up into the chock but, I did love that little winch. It was a 2000 pound winch too, apparently.
Just what I need! Thanks for the tip! Need something to pull dead snowmobiles up on the trailer.
Have had one for years (different brand, but same thing also from HF - it was Chicago brand back then). Bought it after a friend recommended one (he's had his even longer). They're cheap, and they work!
That's great, i also work alone, so i bought the wireless remote & used a solenoid so i can steer from the driver's seat.
Watching this reminded me of the time I had to repair a bent dock railing that had been ripped out of the curb. The only thing I had to push it into place and hold it was my truck. So I pushed it into place, poured new concrete around the base. Then I literally had to sit and watch concrete dry until I could move the truck.
Dan from DD Speed Shop used to use a winch to pull his cars into the garage. I don't think I've seen him use it since he bought the Bobcat
I've had on of those & and an old school that's only manual for years, they're extremely useful & handy
I used a winch like that for a decade, pulling tractors and various power equipment up ramps into a pick up truck bed. Often daisy chained ratchet straps to extend it.
I'M working on my second nap!
I now count XJs, instead of sheep, to get sleepy
yep had mine for years mainly used it to drag cars up on trailers ramps , and in to buildings ,,these days i use it to raise my small wind turbines ,the only thing that broke was the plastic coller and the stop lock
Hey uncle Tony riding lawnmowers work if you have an old one keep one at the shop with a tow strap
Cheap tools get the job done too. I worked for a few years out of an old beat up Fingerhut kit my Grandma bought me. I still have it as a throw in the trunk or back of the truck kit. I have since got to where I can spend a little more on tools(NOT THE STUPID EXPENSIVE BIG NAMES) but will never forget where I started.
Uncle Tony's Jeep Garage!!!!
Someone needs to give him a dodge volt or something to get back on task lol.
Tony I couldn’t stop laughing watching it nearly not move hahah I hope you keep the winch segments in as a future character, and I like how it does work but the lack of speed is so funny
I have had mine for almost 20 years and it's still going.
I have a 2000 winch from there it was a four wheeler winch made a frame bolted the winch to made it portable out was 29.99 mounted the silinodes to it done what I wanted to do slow but saved my back from being slow . you should have hooked up to large Marge and taste it.😅😅😅
I bet you can increase the pull power of electrics with turning the hand crank at the same time. Hopefully the wire holds, dyneema rope is a good improvement for any winch
It's like a toy you can both play with and get the job done. A win-win if there ever was one
Gonna go to my local Hobo freight and get mine ASAP.
I have one of these, if you get a pulley on a short piece of chain then double the winch cable back to the winch it moves faster.
I went with a cheap Chinese model when I got a full normal electric one for my car trailer and it's been awesome, only thing I did was pack it with more grease bc it came loud.
Came with 2 wireless remotes and the usual 25ft corded one plus a mounting plate for about as much as a brand name mounting plate
I'm becoming suspicious that you're avoiding building Kiwi's Hemi... 🤣
Wee winch looks reasonably handy, especially with the manual handle attachment. Could be good for hoisting out (or in) engines... Maybe even a Hemi...
The wireless remote models are even handier when working alone.
One thing for sure, if you are going to use the winch to pull a car up an incline you might want to pack a lunch
You should connect the handle to the wench someway. That way, you won't be missing it when you need it most.
I had the 12k badlands winch on my Gladiator. Used it all the time
I've never seen a winch that slow 😂 surprised that you didn't get charged an extra "storage fee" when you were loading up the trailer for taking up parking space lol. Last one I bought from harbor freight lasted several years before getting water in the gearbox and freezing busting it. Well worth the money to save my old back
Get a receiver that bolts to a trucks bumper. Bolt it to the floor back by the wall. get some square stock and weld it to the bracket. When you need the winch you just pin it in the receiver and go.
I have used one similar to yours, it was my buddys, pulled a Tahoe, we started pulling and it bogged down just like yours did when it hit a hard spot I had him stop so I could put one sheave in to make it a two part line instead of a one part and it made it a lot better. He gave me shit the whole time until we hit a hard spot made a big diff. He didn't say a thing after that.
I've had one for a few years, yes its slower than snail snot but when its 118 degrees in Texas its 10000% better than a come a long. I've drug some locked up vehicles up on the trailer, it takes a while and it does get hot but the darn things will pull.
I’ve heard the bigger “badlands” winches are actually rebadged Smittybuilts, with slightly inferior controls.
The voltage drop on those tiny cables must be huge, you might want to cut them short and add larger gauge jumper cables. This thing is neat though, I am considering buying one for my friend's suzuki samurai.
I have their older generation 12000lb badland winch on my ZJ and it's a beast. Pulled many stumps out with it and some snatch blocks. Got me out of mud when I was buried up to the axles. I'm actually assembling a custom lithium battery bank for it because my lead acid starting batteries have only been lasting a year since I started using it and that's with a larger 160 amp alternator (It will pull 360A under full load).
I saw this sickness coming a mile away when you got your first XJ. Once you drove it you were done. It's incurable.
In his case, curable through natural causes
I could use one for pulling fuel wood to the pickup and then cut
It's supposed to go over a reese hitch of a car over the bumper ball so you may want to like have some kind of Reese hitch hooked up to the wall in there where you can put that over the ball on the receiver
Hahaha... xj #5. Where I'm from, we call that, Hook line and sinker..
Now you need the wireless remote to go with it to steer the jeep into the shop.
DAMN that thing is slow! I got one on an old Chief Frame Raxk and I thought it was slow.
MORR uses this brand quite heavily, they seem to be pretty good. I have an old Warn from a Power Wagon that works for me just fine for the moment. If that thing conks out, I'll probably get a Badlands to replace it.
At first I laughed and laughed. But after a while I was getting bored and the sun was going down. I sped up the video speed. Still to slow. So I threw in the towel. But hopefully Tony gets that jeep inside before his retirement. 😂
*_Meanwhile, 3 days later!_*
Mine isn't any faster 😂👍
Slow enough you could finish working on the engine while it's pulling and drive it home :)
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