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Rear winch mount?

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TimM:

--- Quote from: "Budgie" ---........... have you tried to lift a winch & mount onto a vehicle!  :?
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No, that's why I thought my 'plan' might be flawed.....

Wanderer:
How do you plan to keep the departure angle Mike and still be able to open the door?
Or will it be removable?

chuggaman:

--- Quote from: "Wanderer" ---How do you plan to keep the departure angle Mike and still be able to open the door?
Or will it be removable?
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my departure angle is already confined by my important towbar

but if you look at the picture below at the front winch bumper i will be using the same idea

obviously the chassis at the rear is a bit more of a problem

but the fabricator and i seem confident that it can be done

inital measurements indicate it will stick out to the rear 2 more inches in the middle

and 1 inch lower

and at the same time well modify the towbar to get it higher

says he hopefully :roll:

mike

i can deal with that

Wanderer:
I'll be interested in what you come up with Mike.
I've got the same winch bumper on the front and have come a cropper a couple of time because of the extra length plus a roller fairlead on the front.
On the rear I've got a Scorpion recovery bumper with removable towbar. I've not hung the rear up in a long time whereas it used to plough with the old towbar.
I can't imagine how you'd get a winch in there without losing a fair bit of departure angle.

My thoughts are to use the towbar receiver and use a demountable but the problem would be the torsional effect (if that's a real word never mind the right words) with an L shaped mount sliding into the receiver ending with the winch sitting a couple of inches higher than the bumper.

Good luck with it.

chuggaman:
i think ill need the luck ed

with the lift and setup ive got

i havnt had a problem yet with angles

but now that youve jinxed me

ill probably have the most useless vehicle at whaddon :roll:

the bolts that utilise your bumper recovery point are the only real support to mount the rear winch(bumper incorporated)

if you know what i mean

hopefully ill have the rear bumper ready at whaddon to test/allow others to see

here goes

mike

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