Pictures of how you mounted a winch on your trailer

[Silvic]

I am leaning towards using a receiver as well so that the winch can be removed and possibly placed on another trailer or the back of my mulching machine to pull it out of trouble if I get into trouble. Never ever down that before with a 14k mulcher.:ashamed: Try moving a 14K unit buried up to the top of one track with a 8K winch. Can you spell block and tackle? I almost ran out of pulleys to do that with only an 8K winch but it worked.

The issue is which alternative is best to tie either the bolt down plate or the receiver to the trailer.

 

[Soldier415]

following

 

[terryknight]

other trailer. i have added a snatch block to halve the speed and double the pull. i bring the hook back to one of the d rings. i would like to have the winch higher, but i use a sacrificial 2x4 to keep the wire from running over the trailer where the dovetail is. need to be aware of where you attach the winch to your load. i loaded a cclb truck and had to reposition the winch since i ran out of pull before i got the truck all the way on.

 

[Silvic]

other trailer. i have added a snatch block to halve the speed and double the pull. i bring the hook back to one of the d rings. i would like to have the winch higher, but i use a sacrificial 2x4 to keep the wire from running over the trailer where the dovetail is. need to be aware of where you attach the winch to your load. i loaded a cclb truck and had to reposition the winch since i ran out of pull before i got the truck all the way on.

Nice picture. So how much load have you put on that mount do you think? How much higher do you think it should be, to be an ideal location, since you would like to have it higher?

 

[terryknight]

Nice picture. So how much load have you put on that mount do you think? How much higher do you think it should be, to be an ideal location, since you would like to have it higher?

cclb F350 dually roughly 8000K lbs. i wish it were about a ft higher and further forward on the tongue. however it was easier and quicker to do it the way i did. and for most of my use it really doesn't make a difference

 

[two_bit_score]

Do you have any pictures of how you mounted the receiver on the trailer and how you structurally supported that mount?
That would be great.
Thanks

I do. Somewhere. They have been posted here before, somewhere. I'll see if I can find them.

 

[comancheflight]

I have a new (few months ago) 22' big tex patrial tilt (16' tilt, 6' stationary). I bolted under the deck 2 pieces of angle iron about 3' long. I then drilled holes through the deck and angle. Put washers and bolts through then welded the nuts to the angle. I leave the bolts in and snug when not in use so the nut threads stay clean. I have the HF 12,500lb wench. When not in use the wench is in the front tool box.
The down side to my wench is the deck on my trailer is well balanced...or was...with the weight of the angle iron, even without the massive wench, the bed won't stay tilted on the ground and slowly drops back on the trailer so I have to add a counterbalance to rear deck to keep it on the ground. I may end up bolting some weight under the deck to counter this.
I may even consider selling the wench (haven't even used it yet), removing the angle iron and just buy a come a long..
For no more than I anticipate using it....the trailer was new and thought it would be cool to have...

 

[Wagtail]

I have a new (few months ago) 22' big tex patrial tilt (16' tilt, 6' stationary). I bolted under the deck 2 pieces of angle iron about 3' long. I then drilled holes through the deck and angle. Put washers and bolts through then welded the nuts to the angle. I leave the bolts in and snug when not in use so the nut threads stay clean. I have the HF 12,500lb wench. When not in use the wench is in the front tool box.
The down side to my wench is the deck on my trailer is well balanced...or was...with the weight of the angle iron, even without the massive wench, the bed won't stay tilted on the ground and slowly drops back on the trailer so I have to add a counterbalance to rear deck to keep it on the ground. I may end up bolting some weight under the deck to counter this.
I may even consider selling the wench (haven't even used it yet), removing the angle iron and just buy a come a long..
For no more than I anticipate using it....the trailer was new and thought it would be cool to have...

You never know when a good wench will come in handy.

 

[FatTire]

You never know when a good wench will come in handy.

An imbalanced wench might get you in trouble.

 

[GLyford]

I may even consider selling the wench (haven't even used it yet), removing the angle iron and just buy a come a long.

What about a hand crank boat winch?