Ok so I had a winch post several months ago and it seems that the rule of thumb is 1.5 times the weight of your truck. The problem is I am buying a Ranch hand bumper and the largest winch you can fit behind it is the Ti 9000

If I were to get a which like that, I would basically be putting the max load on it if I have to ever pull out my truck. But what I didn't ever ask is, would it be ok to strao my truck to a tree or something and use the whinch to pull out other trucks, say a Ford F-150 or anything like that , that has gotten stuck, rather then using it to pull out myself?

Also it would be nice to have something to pull up the deerstands controled rather then trying to lift them as high as we can by hand and pull them with a truck and cause damage to them.

Thoughts?

 

I've got a Tough Country front end replacement on my truck and have a 15,000 pound Warn mounted in it...It fit like a glove......Ben

 

Yea I don't have 2k to put into a bumper

 

Also do you have to have the bumper removed from th truck to install a winch or can it be put in with the bumper on?

 

you can use a ****** block, which doubles your pulling power but also cuts the speed in half.
how often do you plan to use your winch?

 

Almost never. I just want it for those how crap times. I am not going to be offoading. It will be for the deerlease.

 

A ****** block will also cut the length in half so you better have extra cable on hand or be close to something solid to winch to.

If you are not using the truck as an "offroad" vehicle then you will probably find that a Warn 9500ti will get serve you just fine. If you plan to lift it and do some serious offroad then you should hold out for a 12K or 15K.

I had an 8k on my old truck and it worked fine for me but I never got the truck REALLY stuck. 90% of the time the winch was used for chores as opposed to vehicle extraction.


I have the Warn 9.5ti on my Jeep with 37" tires that I only use for offroad. The only time I've had to use a ****** block was to extract a Ramcharger that was in the mud up to his fenders. He had been in over night so the mud had frozen around him and the motor was dead and he couldn't help by spinning the tires at all.

 

I am lifting the truck but not to do offroading. Like I said it is only for the deerlease. And maybe pull out other smaller trucks that got stuck in the rain,
The problem is the Ranchhands are made with schedule 40 pipe and they do not fit a 12k which from what the guy at RH told me. He said a Warn Ti9k is the largest you can fit.

 

You mean a Warn 9.5ti.....

 

yes you know what I ment tomato : potato

 

Fordzilla: It would be nice to see some pics of your bumper-mounted winch setup. By the way, I couldn't find a 15K pound winch on the Warn site. What model number is it?

 

You weren't looking very hard!

http://www.warn.com/truck/winches/he...t_series.shtml

http://www.warn.com/truck/winches/src/M15000.shtml

 

I've put on a 8K winch after I find myself stuck in the mud up to the frame. I got myself out with a 4K comalong. slowly backing up, not spinning the tires and letting the cable do the pulling. If you know what you're doing.... almost any size will work. I've used it a couple of time on my truck and it's worked great every time. BTW-truck weight is 8200 lbs. You just have to be smart about it!

 

Well I just found out that the RH bumper for a winch does not allow for tow hooks which I need. SO I have opted to get the non winch bumper and maybe pickup the winch that you can put on the plte that slides into the receiver on the front or rear down the road.

 

That is the way I have a 12,000 Warn mounted. I have a receiver welded to my utility trailer also. Sometimes you want to go back out of a place you shouldn't have gone into.