Tractor winch.....

[RollTideRam]

If you have the remotes front and rear, the hydraulic winch makes the most sense on a tractor. If you are smart enough to use it before you are too stuck to kill the engine. I almost stuck my 3320 last week trying to uproot a small tree on the far side of a ditch. The bottom seemed firm, but the more I moved around getting my grapple into the roots, the deeper my tires sunk. I found that a grapple does not work as well as a bucket when trying to push yourself out of a ditch. JC

 

[tessiers]

lewis winch. uses a 50cc to 80cc chainsaw motor. 8000lb pull. 150' cable. LEWIS  WINCH INC

 

[excelagator]

I do some moderate wheeling with some friends, but I am a far cry to the "watch this kind of guy". I personally think if you are going to mount it, mount it in the rear. If your stuck I am pretty sure a modest wheeler or sane tractor owner will go back. The best would be make it mountable front and rear.

I did pick-up a HF winch and made a mount fit my 3 point hitch. Pretty easy simple set-up.

 

[RobJ]

lewis winch. uses a 50cc to 80cc chainsaw motor. 8000lb pull. 150' cable. LEWIS* WINCH INC

Just to get technical, it's a 4000# winch, pulls 8000# with a snatch block.

I do like the idea though.

Rob

 

[daBear]

Kubota L2800 and winch photos.

I got tired of getting stuck and mounted a 2" receiver on the brushguard. Then I mounted a winch on a receiver plate and away I go. I also used 350 amp Anderson connectors commonly used on fork lifts to connect it directly to the tractor battery with a 300 amp fuse in line.

Works great and actually I have two winches set up this way. One is a 7500# for pulling trees over and the other is a small light weight 3700# Warn to pull me out of mud holes.

 

[RobJ]

Kubota L2800 and winch photos.

I got tired of getting stuck and mounted a 2" receiver on the brushguard. Then I mounted a winch on a receiver plate and away I go. I also used 350 amp Anderson connectors commonly used on fork lifts to connect it directly to the tractor battery with a 300 amp fuse in line.

Works great and actually I have two winches set up this way. One is a 7500# for pulling trees over and the other is a small light weight 3700# Warn to pull me out of mud holes.

Yours looks a lot like one of mine. I first built this one for my 1990 F-150. 100% custom mount I made fit behind the bumper, I had to remove the license plate to expost the 2" receiver. I couldn't make it that slick on the F250 SD, sort of a big thing I had to add on but the 18 yo Ramsey winch still does it's thing.

The small winches are the HF $49 version, they work ok. I had to get the contactor elsewhere to make the system work like I wanted. My BIL how is an upholster made the covers.

 

[patrick_g]

my advice would be to buy a gas powered winch and a big danfoss type anchor.

When it comes time to actually find the anchor, it is spelled Danforth.

The Danforth anchor has the best straight pull force for pounds of weight of all commonly available anchors and variants of it are sold for extreme off roading. It will dig in and hold with little effort setting it on dry land.

I concur that a danforth style anchor would make a convenient and effective easily ported deadman for winching purposes.

Warning, trivia content...The Danforth anchor, named for Robert Danforth Ogg, co-inventor of the Danforth anchor was designed in WW II to be deployed from a landing craft before it hit the beach. It was to be used to "kedge off" i.e. pull the craft back into sufficient water to float the boat and allow it to get back to sea.

Pat

 

[studor]

Patrick -- Thanks for correcting typo -- did not even notice and liked the trivia -- DANFORTH anchors do work! (Although they will pull down a fair distance in muck and retreiving them can be uncomfortable.)
I also agree with all those who commented on mounting it on the back in a receiver hitch (why would you want to go further into the swamp? -- you will just have to come out again ) The forklift electrical connectors are a great idea. I use heavy wiring to a seven pin trailer socket, the fuse after the connections I make from seven pin to winch, four pin trailer etc. I just found the trailer stuff easier to obtain and has at least some weatherproofing.

ODT -In my first reply I forgot to say that since the tractor has a loader, a few pointers on extricating yourself with it might gain you a fair amount of customer gratitude -- I know I am well and truly stuck when four wheel drive and the loader will not get me out I thought of this when I noticed that a lot of those who responded did not have loaders on their tractors in which case a winch would have been one of my first purchases too.
Love that chainsaw winch setup!

 

[Danno1]

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If you tie a rope to the anchor at the pivot where the flukes meet the stock you can pull it out backwards fairly easily.

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[patrick_g]

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If you tie a rope to the anchor at the pivot where the flukes meet the stock you can pull it out backwards fairly easily.

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Some of the danforth style anchors have an attachment point expressly for bending on a "trip line" but as Danno said, a line to the back of the anchor will, when pulled vertically, "upset" the anchor and release its grip making it way easier to retrieve to the surface.

If you are in a situation where you need to or are limited by line length to deploy the anchor relatively close to the tractor, a length of chain attached to the anchor and then the winch line connected to the chain will sometimes work much better than just the winch line. With the chain, the heavier the better as the catenary formed by the tensioned winch line will be kept to a lower angle and will allow the anchor to dig in better. Alternatively, place something heavy on top of the winch line near the middle to try to keep the winch line more horizontal. These measures, of course, need not be employed if you are getting satisfactory results but if the anchor isn't quire holding good enough try some of the above.

A safety issue: Do not stand in line or close to inline with the winch cable neither in front of or behind either end. Stand to one side. You need a decent length remote cable to operate the winch safely. In the event something gives way the tensioned cable can exceed the speed of sound and can whip out and get you before you can even blink.

Pat