How to use winch properly?

[Shibadog]

The very “best” use for a winch is as a bumper decoration. If you need to employ the cable and actually “use” it, you’ve screwed up (or somebody else has). If you’ve never actually done it, read the owners manual VERY carefully. A winch CAN kill you if you don’t know what you’re doing-esp with a wire cable

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[WheretheJLs]

The very “best” use for a winch is as a bumper decoration. If you need to employ the cable and actually “use” it, you’ve screwed up (or somebody else has). If you’ve never actually done it, read the owners manual VERY carefully. A winch CAN kill you if you don’t know what you’re doing-esp with a wire cable

Lol someone usually needs to be rescued everytime I go

 

[GATORB8]

Lol someone usually needs to be rescued everytime I go

It's a lot more relaxing when you don't wheel with Toyotas, lol.

 

[Ratbert]

It's a lot more relaxing when you don't wheel with Toyotas, lol.

But nowhere near as humorous.

 

[Ratbert]

The very “best” use for a winch is as a bumper decoration. If you need to employ the cable and actually “use” it, you’ve screwed up (or somebody else has). If you’ve never actually done it, read the owners manual VERY carefully. A winch CAN kill you if you don’t know what you’re doing-esp with a wire cable

So they continue to look pretty in the mall parking lot?

 

[Shibadog]

So they continue to look pretty in the mall parking lot?

Nope, not at all. However I’ve found a few decades ago the wheelin pretty quickly changes from fun to work when you need a winch.. Until the last few years I used a come a long, but I’m getting old and lazy so I use a winch these days. I the last 4 years mines not been needed to save ME, but I have drug out two Rubicon JLY’s driven by folks who had no idea what they were doing and a Taco that found that the mudhole was a LOT deeper than e thought

 

[Radioman]

The very “best” use for a winch is as a bumper decoration. If you need to employ the cable and actually “use” it, you’ve screwed up (or somebody else has). If you’ve never actually done it, read the owners manual VERY carefully. A winch CAN kill you if you don’t know what you’re doing-esp with a wire cable

I have found that my usual use of the winch is to help another person that got in over their head. They were very thankful.

 

[Zandcwhite]

Nope, not at all. However I’ve found a few decades ago the wheelin pretty quickly changes from fun to work when you need a winch.. Until the last few years I used a come a long, but I’m getting old and lazy so I use a winch these days. I the last 4 years mines not been needed to save ME, but I have drug out two Rubicon JLY’s driven by folks who had no idea what they were doing and a Taco that found that the mudhole was a LOT deeper than e thought

Years ago the work of recovery, getting underbuilt rigs through trails like the rubicon, even trail fixes as extensive as a transfer case swap or welding with a few batteries in series was fun to me. Didn't run a winch, I've used a hilift jack as a come along, a brace for a broken leaf spring and sleeved a tie rod with the handle just to get off trails. I'm long removed from my twenties and closer to 50 than 40 now so I err on the side of over built. Do you need a Rubicon on 3.5" of lift and 39s with full armor and a winch to run the Rubicon? Absolutely not. Is it a hell of a lot less work than taking the wife's WJ on a 3" lift and 31s through the trail? 100%. Not only am I not repairing things, the last trip we never even got out to spot once. Just drive the trail. And if I did misjudge a line or slip off a rock I can pull cable and be on my way in a couple minutes. The only time we've managed to get stuck in the JLURs is deep snow and deep mud. If there's any traction to be had it will drive damn near anywhere. When there's zero traction there's not much you can do.

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