Sawyer Rob
Super Member
Looking to install a 20K + winch.
Had my sights on a 20-25K Sherpa. Looks like the best you can get, but they are super expensive.
Was looking at these on Amazon.
They claim the motors and larger parts are German/American made. Not a Chinese made winch
Less than half the price of Sherpa.
Here’s the company store. Looks like they have a lot of experience.
Prowinch
chain hoist, cranes, lifting materials, material handling, hoists, chain hoists, winches, wire rope hoistwww.amazon.com
It says it has "evolved", I hope so because the one I had, had only one keyway between the shaft and drum. I stripped that out two different times! I got fed up with THAT, and welded the drum to the shaft, and sold the winch!I have used my warn m8274 for endless years, yes its heavy, but fast and very powerful. It's been rebuilt a time or two but has a receiver mount and jumper cable set up I made works great. And have several doubler blocks to help on real heavy items. Will see if I can find a photo of it in use, pulled a 60' lift sunk in mud once with use of trees for anchors, no room to get anything else close to problem.View attachment 837634
I then bought the Warn 12,000 planetary winch (NOT china made) and all these years later it still works perfectly. I've winched out my 3/4 ton "loaded" pu, no problem at all and it was high centered crossing a swamp.
SR