I have a 9000pound superwinch on my dodge 3500. I had my truck stuck, with a dump trailer full of gravel. Was parked on hill in my barnyard and had a breakline blow. Mom couldnt stop the truck. She was burried where all my old hay and manure was. Told her to give it **** and she made it half the way out. The tractor wouldnt budge her from this pit.
I broke the winch out, "mounted on a 2inch front reciver" put a bunch of chain on a 12inch corner post in my barnyard. Ran the snatch block back out and porceded to see if it would pull it out. Now i was only able to get about 1/3 of the rock off. So i still had 2000plus pounds of rock, a dump trailer of 4500pounds and a 7000pound truck. Needless to said i had alot of weight. Considering i was burried up to the frame.
After about 3mins of a constant pull the truck was out and moving under its own power. I kept checking the motor and it never once got hot. I have used that winch, to pull my tractors out several times, along with our semi. You have to take in consideration those will pull "their raiting" pounds as dead weight. Rolling weight is alot less.
i have a warn 2500 on my 400 arctic cat and i have used it to pull cars around, log with it, stretch fence. Once you have one, you will be like how did i ever live with out it.
LIke the guy above who used his atv winch to get his gun safe to his basement. I used my truck winch to get a 1500 pound wood burner out of my basement. I have used it several times to move my cattle shoot around in the barn.
Snatch blocks are great things, allow you to pull at angles.