UTV Winch?

[bigtiller]

Is that the right picture? where's the winch?

 

[Torvy]

 

[Smokeydog]

Is that the right picture? where's the winch?

If you zoom in you can see the fairlead in the front bumper. To pull a tree have to anchor the truck to another tree or tractor with grapple or bucket in the ground.

Never been impressed with several of the electric winches I’ve used for other than self recovery.
Hydraulic winches are scary strong.
PTO winches have serious muscle.

 

[carmedic310]

Your best bet by far would be a Hydraulic winch or an old style pto winch converted to run off your tractor pto

 

[pacosperson]

Thought this would be the best place for this question. Rural King sells their brand of UTV winches that are pretty well priced. 3500# is around $169 and 5500# is around $199. I had a 3500# on my sportsman that drug as big a log as I am ever going to drag and easily pulled that atv out of anything.

I am considering buying one to rig up to the front or back of my GC2400. I know both winches will pull logs easily for me, but has anyone used a winch like this to pull a sub compact tractor out of a situation? Looks like the GC2400 is around 1400# dry weight. I have a fairly step hill that can get slick. I would like to have the winch to help get the tractor up it, if needed.

I know that math adds up but I am sure there are things I am missing or I am not experienced with. The only real winching I have done is with the one on my ATV.

It is not necessarily the size of the winch as long as you have a strong cable. A few snatch blocks properly rigged can multiply the pulling force to amazing levels. I have pulled huge locust stumps with a winch attached very low to the ground on a nearby tree. Be smart. Let mathematics do the hard work for you.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It is not necessarily the size of the winch as long as you have a strong cable. A few snatch blocks properly rigged can multiply the pulling force to amazing levels. I have pulled huge locust stumps with a winch attached very low to the ground on a nearby tree. Be smart. Let mathematics do the hard work for you.

For a once in a blue moon pull that's fine, but for pulling several times a day or row, it's a total pain in the rear to have to mess with all of that, and you need a lot more wire rope!

SR

 

[pumasong]

I reckon it's worth it depending on how stuck you plan to get. I put a small (1500kg - so 3000lb approx) winch on the front of my 4WD Kubota mower as it kept getting stuck in mud when the rains started in winter here. I've used it a bunch of times and it has been worth it's weight in gold. Only cost about £100 I think (about $150). I've used it to haul logs, pull up leaning trees, and other ill advised ventures!

 

[bcp]

A PTO winch driven from a tractor PTO lacks a reverse capability.

Add a hydraulic motor to that PTO winch and run it from the tractor hydraulics, or start with a hydraulic winch.

Bruce

 

[edmoor]

Thought this would be the best place for this question. Rural King sells their brand of UTV winches that are pretty well priced. 3500# is around $169 and 5500# is around $199. I had a 3500# on my sportsman that drug as big a log as I am ever going to drag and easily pulled that atv out of anything.

I am considering buying one to rig up to the front or back of my GC2400. I know both winches will pull logs easily for me, but has anyone used a winch like this to pull a sub compact tractor out of a situation? Looks like the GC2400 is around 1400# dry weight. I have a fairly step hill that can get slick. I would like to have the winch to help get the tractor up it, if needed.

I know that math adds up but I am sure there are things I am missing or I am not experienced with. The only real winching I have done is with the one on my ATV.

Go with double the weight you might pulling out..or it will heat up and quit. I bought one for my jd gator from Cabela's..it's a very tuff winch..I have



drug trees with it..after I chained my gator to another tree..

 

[Smokeydog]

Caution anyone building a pto winch on a tractor to make it have power in and out. Don’t want sudden release of tension on a winch.
Old Dodge power wagons had F/R pto off transmission. Some had pto off transfer case allowing the winch to independently using all the speeds from the transmission.