i have a 01 dodge 2500 4x4 diesel does anybody know what size winch wound i need??? make???? model???

 

General rule is 1&1/2 time your GVWR ....... so 8800 lb GVWR times 1.5 = 13200

so a 12,00lb-16,00lb winch would be the ticket

 

Just like anything else the bigger the better. Your truck weighs 6000 lbs? Take a 12k winch 1st wrap 12k, 2nd wrap 10k, 3rd wrap 8k, and 4th wrap 6k. I'd say at least a 12k winch or you'll be using a ****** block often. If your not using the winch for competitions, I'd recomend a Milemarker Hydro, they will easily out last and out pull an electric winch.

 

I have a Warn 9500i, that does a pretty good job. But when your Really stuck it does put a load on it

 

So if you get up in the morning and find your truck at the bottom of a sinkhole, your winch should be sized to pull the truck out. Assuming you have enough cable to reach an adequate tree. Also, you can lift the truck up to make working underneath easier?

 

winches are for pulling broken chevys onto trailers

 

NOT necessarily TRUE!! Bigger is NOT always better with winches (but usually is).

Compare the line speeds and electrical usage of a winch at certain loads and you will see this is the case.

Consider the Warn 9.5XP and the 16.5ti thermometric. Both are Warn's premium winches within their load categories. (9.5= 9500#, 16.5= 16,500# rated line pull).

At a load of 2000#, the 9.5XP has a line speed of 16.8 ft/min and uses 175 amps. At the same load, the 16.5ti has a line speed of 12.07 ft/min and uses 138 amps. So, if you had to pull in 100ft of line at a load of 2K#, the 9.5 uses 1041 amp-minutes and the 16.5ti uses 1142 amp-minutes.

So, to do the EXACT SAME WORK, the 9.5xp took less electricity to do it. Not only that, but it did the work FASTER (mostly because it was exerting itself for less time, thus less electrical usage).

In this case, the 9.5 acts more like a powerlifter (because of it's taller gearing, it has to work harder for less time) and the 16.5 acts like a marathon runner (geared so low that it exerts itself less, but for much more time).

But if you change the workload to 6000 pounds, things get interesting.

At a load of 6K, the 9.5 uses 335 Amps to produce a line speed of 10.1 ft/min. The 16.5 uses only 240 amps for a line speed of 7.37 ft/min. To recover a 100ft length at this load, the 9.5 will use 3316 amp-minutes of electricity, and the 16.5 will only use 3256 amp-minutes of juice.

Now the tables have turned-- to do the EXACT SAME WORK, the 16.5 is more efficient than the 9.5.


As the workload goes up, the 16.5 will have an increasingly larger efficiency advantage over the smaller winch (9.5).

So don't get the big winch if you will only use it for about 2K-3K workload (pulling out other from ditch, etc). The faster line speed of the smaller winch will also speed things up quite a bit.

But if you're going to be winching yourself up impossible hills or winching out of tire-burying muck, the larger winch is going to be helpful.

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Also, looking at the info from Warn's website, you can see that it's a LOT more efficient to have one large winch on a single line pull than to use a smaller winch on a ****** block pulling half as hard for twice as long (can you say SLOOOOOOW line speed?)

Justin